Senior People Partner - Engineering

Global HR Business Partner – Engineering

Series C Tech Scale-Up

Hybrid

Working with one of the most innovative and well-known Apps in the Tech world, for an award-winning Chief People Officer, this is an exceptional opportunity for a seasoned People Partner with tons of experience supporting Engineering Teams, to accelerate their career.

People here genuinely want to do something good in the world. Its hugely exciting - they are growing, they have ambition, they are on the path to profitability and they want to go through an exit/IPO in a few years.

This role is for you if you enjoy working at a fast pace, in a diverse, high-performing environment where you get to be creative.

The Job

They have grown quickly and are now around 400 people globally and they have an outstanding People and Talent team. You’ll be reporting to the Head of People Partnering, working in a team of 5. This is a strategic Partnering role, working directly with the CTO, as well as working extremely closely with the Exec and Leadership teams.

The Engineering Department is around 110 people and is well structured, with a good culture but they want a real superstar to continue to drive change, level up the function, influence and make a difference. They are very experimental in what they do and are very data driven, so this person will have the space to try new things and experiment. They really want someone creative who is going to build them a world class Tech org.

Leadership development is a huge focus – they want to roll out Engineering Manager Training, to really up-skill and level up the Manager layer and enable better decision making through ensuring the CTO is confidence in the ability of their senior team.

This company is on a powerful mission and everyone is bought in to making it a success. People who works there are happy to roll their sleeves up and get stuff don. They don't like egos. Their culture is empathetic, and caring. They like to work hard and solve problems, and are focused on results. Being a global organisation, its a multi-cultural environment, and is fast-paced and constantly changing.

What will you be doing?

• Acting as a strong go-between between The Tech org, People Ops and Centres of Excellence
• Developing Business Strategy for the Tech function, including Business Change
• Advise around market intelligence and competitor analysis of best-in-class People practices
• Supporting the Leadership team with communication of all updates and changes to the Tech organisation
• Being a strong voice of the management population’s and ensure buy-in for change
• Acting as an advocate between business managers and People Ops + CoEs
• Measuring cost and effectiveness of People solutions and interventions, as well as building headcount plans and budget forecasts for Tech
• Coaching and up-skilling leadership

What we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in strategic People Partnering Engineering teams specifically (ideally Engineering functions of more than 100 people)
• Strong commercial accumen and experience working within a product-led business
• Solid experience across comp & total reward strategy, org design, DEI, career development, performance management, and ER
• Strong project management skills along with solid knowledge of People Analytics and how it impacts business decisions
• Experience of working in a global, multi-cultural organnisation (nice to have)
• Experience in working in a scaling tech company (nice to have)
• The main thing we will be assessing for is strong examples of what you have actually done and how you have impacted the business, with the data to back it up

What type of person do we look for?

• We are being picky. This org has interviewed a number of people for this role directly, and have struggled to find people with the enough gravitas and personality to demonstrate they can really push back on senior stakeholders who can be quite punchy
• Someone who really lives and breaths 'People as a Product'
• Someone sparky and creative

The details:

• Up to £85,000 per year + annual salary reviews + equity
• Work abroad for 2 months a year
• 6 months paid maternity leave
• Immense career growth, progression, and learning opportunities
• Unlimited free subscription to the product

The Search are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.