HR Business Partner (in London)

About Staffbase

In a polarized world, we inspire people to achieve great things together. Our mission is to help organizations unlock the power of inspirational communication so they can thrive in the Narrative Age. Our award-winning communications channels – intranet, employee app and email – deliver experiences that drive engagement and inspire hearts and minds.

We’re headquartered in Chemnitz, Germany, with offices in many locations throughout the world, including New York, London, Berlin and Dresden. Our international team counts more than 750 employees from 45+ nationalities and we have a growing base of 2200+ customers that want to transform their employee experience. We are rapidly scaling, post-Series E ($115 million funding), have strong-growing revenue, and our customers love us.

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for enabling business growth and fostering a positive organizational culture? Staffbase is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our team and support our growth ambitions. In this role, you will be instrumental in building strong partnerships with leaders, developing deep insights into their business challenges, and creating innovative solutions that align with our organizational values and OKRs.

You will leverage your commercial passion and expert people skills to deliver high impact solutions, drive people strategy, and enhance team performance. Your proactive approach to identifying critical business issues and tendency towards action will ensure timely and effective resolutions. Additionally, you will play a key role in mentoring team members, contributing to the development of the People Experience (PX) function, and leading company-wide programs and initiatives.

If you are known for your creativity in navigating ambiguity, strong sense of ownership and curiosity to understand the bigger picture, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing

  • Partner with relevant Business Leaders at Staffbase (e.g. Venture Markets & Global Marketing) to create and execute people plans that align with regional and global growth ambitions including new market entry activities

  • Actively drive talent management agenda, working closely with TA and OD to attract best in class talent while internally establishing succession planning, growth and supporting mobility
  • Work in partnership with OD to define, design and deliver engaging enablement and calibration sessions in line culture, talent and reward cycles for Staffbase
  • Support leaders to drive positive engagement within teams and focus on building culture across Staffbase, deepening team engagement, developing motivation and helping teams continue to achieve incredible results
  • Be the trusted thought partner to leaders on organisational effectiveness across all key stages of Organisational Design including; define, design, execute and evaluate
  • Demonstrate data literacy to create insight-driven people plans
  • Utilise solid business, people acumen and practical experience to dig deeply into issues and develop fit-for-purpose and creative solutions that build culture and align with organisational values
  • Work collaboratively with people shared services and internal payroll specialists and suppliers to contribute to the timely and accurate delivery of employee lifecycle documentation and local payroll / financial reporting 
  • Demonstrate enthusiasm for your work, be a creative problem solver and a role-model of organisational values and time management skills
  • Influence the design and continuous improvement of PX programs contributing your deep understanding of business needs and priorities
  • Cultivate positive, trust-based working relationships across the business at all levels

What you need to be successful

  • 7+ years in progressive HR roles, with at least 3 of those as an HR Business Partner
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to align HR strategies with broader organizational objectives
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels
  • Forward-thinking mindset with a passion for creating innovative solutions to drive team success
  • Experience driving organizational performance through change management, talent management, culture and engagement, and organizational design  
  • Internationally experienced with robust understanding of UK employment law and regulations and exposure to other legislative locations (e.g. Germany / Australia) 
  • Proactive approach to challenges with a solution-focused mindset
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and ambiguous environment with multiple competing priorities
  • Saas industry experience useful but not essential
  • Professional HR qualifications are useful but not essential
  • Business fluent English skills, other languages useful but not essential

What you'll get

  • Competitive Compensation - we offer attractive salary packages including an Employee Stock Option Plan. 
  • Flexibility - we offer flexible working time models and the option of hybrid work, and support this with a yearly flex work allowance of £1356. 
  • Growth Budget - all employees get a yearly budget for external training of £900. 
  • Wellbeing - in addition to yearly vacation days of 30 days p.a. (excluding public holidays), we’re running a 4-day-work week every year in August with full payment. 
  • Support - we’re offering a Company Pension and Private Medical Insurance incl. Dental, life assurance. Parents can get 12 weeks of paid parental leave. 
  • Team Building - Regular team and office events including the yearly Staffbase Camp.
  • Volunteers Day - you’ll get one day off per year for supporting a social project. We will donate a small amount for that project in addition. 
  • Employee Referral Program - one of your friends is a fit to one of our full-time openings? Refer them and get a referral bonus paid. 
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