About Alongside

Senior People leadership built around growth, change and complexity

Alongside was created to offer a different kind of People support: closer to the business, more commercially grounded, and better aligned to the realities founders and leadership teams actually face.

Credentials

MSc Human Resources Management and Organisational Analysis
CIPD Level 7
ACAS Code of Practice expertise
Employment Rights Act 1996 and 2025
Equality Act 2010
TUPE

Meet Jess Reeves

Founder of Alongside

Jess Reeves is a senior People leader with over 16 years’ experience helping startups and scaleups build, stabilise, and evolve. She has worked across founder-led and VC-backed businesses, building People functions from scratch, shaping high-performance cultures, supporting international growth, and guiding leadership teams through moments of change, ambiguity, and pressure.

Jessica brings a rare combination of commercial acumen, brand and communications expertise, organisational insight, executive-level People leadership, and the ability to translate between leadership, operations, and people realities.

Experience highlights

Built People functions from 0→1
Supported scaling businesses across multiple growth stages
Partnered with founders, C-suite, and investors
Led complex organisational redesign and redundancy work
Worked internationally across startup and scaleup environments
Worked alongside Mendeley, Hindawi, Peakon, Doctify and Flash Pack
Founder of Rosie BéBé and Alongside

Our values

What makes Alongside different

More than a strategic partner and expert operator — designed to feel different.

Close Partnership

We work alongside our clients in a way that feels close, trusted, and fully invested. We build real understanding and share the weight of difficult moments.

Deep Understanding

We listen to understand the needs, goals, pressures, and ambitions behind the brief — connecting the dots others may miss.

Thoughtful Ingenuity

We bring fresh thinking to familiar challenges. Even the most practical People work can be delivered in a way that feels thoughtful, creative, and distinctly well applied.

Respectful Clarity

Difficult situations handled with both honesty and humanity — giving people the respect, kindness, and clarity they deserve.

Alongside Energy

Positive energy, strong relationships, and purposeful momentum — even when the work is complex or high-stakes.

Our Partnership Promise

What you can expect

More than expert advice — a partner who understands your business, works closely through the important moments, and brings the judgement and clarity needed to move things forward well.

To understand before we advise

To work close to the business

To bring clear, senior judgement

To tailor, not template

To handle people with humanity

To create momentum, not just ideas