Lead People Partner (Technology)

Join our team as a Lead People Partner (Technology) where you will act as a trusted advisor to our engineering, data, and platform leaders. You will have overall accountability for people partnering across the full Technology and Product organization, with a focus on Engineering. Your responsibilities will include leading organizational design, driving distributed team effectiveness, handling complex employee relations, and using people analytics to inform action. You will report to the People Director and work closely with the CTO and their leadership team.

Act as a trusted advisor to engineering, data, and platform leaders, aligning people strategy to roadmap execution and organizational evolution.

Hold overall accountability for people partnering across the full Technology and Product organization, with a focus on Engineering.

We're looking for someone who has partnered closely with engineering, data or platform leadership in a scaling technology or fintech business, and genuinely understands how those functions work

Senior HR experience partnering with engineering organisations in a scaling technology or fintech business

Employee relations judgement across more than one jurisdiction, knowing when to own it and when to bring in specialists (UK/Europe employment law exposure is useful given where much of the engineering population sits, but not essential — we have an ER Centre of Excellence for statutory depth)

Responsibilities

• Lead organizational design, workforce planning, leveling, and team transformation in a function scaling and reshaping simultaneously.

Requirements

• Proven org design depth: you've led real structural change (levelling, spans and layers, function redesign), not just supported it
• Strategic and operational range: equally comfortable designing long-term org strategy and working at team level

Comfortable operating with autonomy at C-level

• Experience leading or formally coaching HR business partners, with the ability to raise the standard of someone else's work
• Remote and global savvy: experience supporting cross-cultural teams across multiple regions
• Strong business acumen: able to translate between people priorities and business outcomes at leadership level