HR Business Partner

Skills

About the Role

You will serve as the primary HR partner for technical leaders, coach managers, and strengthen organisational effectiveness. You will support performance management, employee relations, career frameworks, retention planning, technical hiring, and people operations while ensuring fair and compliant people practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of HR business partner experience supporting technical teams
• Capability in organisational design, workforce planning, manager coaching, performance management, and employee relations
• Stakeholder management, communication, and influence skills
• Experience with career-leveling frameworks and individual-contributor and manager career tracks
• Familiarity with engineering operating models, on-call, incident management, and postmortems

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary HR partner for engineering, hardware, and software leaders
• Support technical leaders through organisational scale moments
• Coach managers on expectations, goals, execution cadence, and feedback loops
• Support performance differentiation and early issue resolution
• Enable high-quality one-to-ones, feedback, and career conversations
• Evolve career frameworks and levels for technical roles
• Clarify individual-contributor and management tracks, promotion readiness, and growth expectations
• Identify retention risks and implement targeted plans
• Support employee-relations matters with legal and compliance awareness
• Align on technical hiring strategy and interview-process health
• Partner on core people processes and employee experience

Benefits

• Stock options
• 30+ paid days off, including annual leave, UK bank holidays, and company closure days
• Private healthcare
• Pension scheme with 8% total contribution
• Free daily breakfast, catered lunch, and in-office snacks