People & Culture Partner

Job Description
Come and be yourself with us
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that's bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we're waiting with open arms.
At HiBob, we believe our people are the power behind our business. As we continue to grow globally and prepare for our next stage of scale, we're looking for a People & Culture Partner to help shape exceptional employee experiences, strengthen manager capability, and contribute to the evolution of our People function.
About the role
As a People & Culture Partner at HiBob, you'll partner with leaders and employees across Customer Success, Business Development, Marketing and other commercial functions, helping build high-performing teams and supporting business growth.
You'll act as a trusted advisor to managers and directors, supporting organisational effectiveness, performance, employee relations, workforce planning and change initiatives. Alongside your partnering responsibilities, you'll own UK People Operations and continuously improve the employee experience across the full employee lifecycle.
As HiBob continues its journey towards IPO readiness, we're evolving how we work to become more scalable, data-driven and AI-enabled. This role will play an important part in that transformation, helping leaders navigate change, improve team effectiveness and rethink how work gets done in an increasingly AI-powered environment.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys operating at the intersection of people strategy, organisational effectiveness and operational excellence. You'll thrive if you're commercially minded, pragmatic, collaborative and excited by the opportunity to influence how a growing global organisation scales.
Job Requirements
Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes they aren't the only factor. If you don't meet every requirement listed below but believe you'd be successful in the role, we'd still love to hear from you.
Essential experience

• Experience in a People Partner, HR Business Partner, People Operations Partner, HR Generalist or similar role
• Experience within SaaS, technology or other fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong employee relations experience and sound knowledge of UK employment legislation
• Experience coaching managers through performance, employee relations and organisational challenges
• Experience supporting customer-facing, commercial or go-to-market functions
• Experience operating in matrix organisations and influencing stakeholders without direct authority
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to challenge constructively
• Experience working across global organisations with distributed leadership teams
• Experience using HR technology to improve employee experience and operational efficiency

Essential mindset

• Strong commercial awareness and curiosity about how people practices drive business performance
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution
• High levels of ownership, accountability and initiative
• Strong problem-solving capability and a continuous improvement mindset
• Comfortable navigating complexity, ambiguity and organisational change
• Interest in how technology, AI and automation can improve employee experience, manager effectiveness and organisational performance
• Passion for building high-performing teams and exceptional employee experiences

Nice to have

• Experience supporting organisational scaling, transformation or change programmes
• Exposure to organisational design, workforce planning or organisational effectiveness initiatives
• Experience representing your organisation externally through events, webinars, panels or employer branding initiatives

Job Responsibilities

• Partner leaders and teams
  • Partner with managers and directors across Customer Success, Business Development, Marketing and other commercial functions
  • Build trusted relationships with leaders and employees across your client groups
  • Coach managers through employee relations matters, performance management and people challenges
  • Support leaders to build high-performing, engaged and accountable teams
  • Act as a trusted advisor on people decisions, organisational challenges and team effectiveness
• Drive organisational effectiveness
  • Support organisational change initiatives, restructures and workforce planning activities
  • Use people data, engagement insights and business metrics to identify trends, risks and opportunities
  • Help leaders improve team effectiveness, performance and organisational health
  • Contribute to organisational design and people planning discussions as the business continues to scale
  • Support the evolution of roles, workflows and team structures as HiBob adapts to new ways of working
• Own and improve People Operations
  • Own and continuously improve UK People Operations and employee experience across the full employee lifecycle
  • Ensure People processes are compliant, scalable, efficient and employee-centric
  • Partner closely with Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Reward and other People teams
  • Support onboarding, offboarding and employee lifecycle activities where required
  • Identify opportunities to simplify processes, automate workflows and improve service delivery
  • Champion the use of technology and AI to improve employee experience, manager effectiveness and People team productivity
• Shape the future
  • Lead and contribute to People projects that support HiBob's growth and future ambitions
  • Help build more scalable, efficient and data-informed People practices
  • Support the continued evolution of HiBob's People function as we prepare for our next stage of growth
  • Contribute to creating a modern, high-performing and AI-enabled organisation

Benefits
This is an opportunity to join HiBob at an exciting stage of our journey as we scale towards our next phase of growth.
You'll have the chance to:

• Partner closely with leaders across some of the most strategically important areas of the business
• Influence how People practices evolve within a fast-growing global organisation
• Build experience across strategic partnering, organisational effectiveness, employee relations and transformation
• Help shape more scalable, data-driven and AI-enabled ways of working
• Play a key role in strengthening manager capability and organisational performance
• Work in an HR-native company where People genuinely matters
• Join a People team that is passionate about continuous improvement and creating exceptional employee experiences

Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth and top performance.
Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Company share options plan
• Cash allowance for health insurance
• Annual vision allowance
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Travel support (cycle scheme and season ticket loans)
• Hybrid working from day one
• Work from home set up cash allowance
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to two months (after six months of employment)
• Bob Balance Days throughout the year
• Two Social Impact Days annually for volunteering
• Employee referral programme
• Pension scheme auto-enrolment from day one
• Regular company and team social events
• Birthday day off and birthday gift

And beyond the benefits, you'll join a company where you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact, grow your career, challenge yourself and help shape the future of work.
We're building a company where everyone can do their best work, grow their careers and be themselves along the way. We'd love for you to be part of it.