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Senior People Business Partner - EMEA

Applied Intuition· Business Functions
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MunichFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior People Business Partner for EMEA overseeing HR strategy and operations across Germany, Sweden, England, and other emerging geographies. Leads end-to-end People programs, partners with regional leaders and HQ, drives regional talent strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

  • Be the senior People leader and business strategist for EMEA. Understand where the regional business is going and bring leaders a clear point of view, with the tradeoffs of each option laid out. Translate business goals into talent decisions: org design, workforce planning, leveling, and succession. Use data to spot attrition risk, capability gaps, and structural problems before the business feels them, and treat your leaders as customers whose success is your measure.
  • Lead end-to-end People programs for the region. Own the employee experience across the region: onboarding, payroll and benefits coordination, leave, compensation, performance, engagement, and employee relations, working within local employment requirements.
  • Direct stakeholders across the employee lifecycle. Take the lead with HQ People Operations, Payroll, Legal, Total Rewards, and local advisors and vendors. Set priorities by risk, impact, and reversibility, assign owners and deadlines, and stay on each issue until the employee or manager has a complete answer. Build self-service resources, manager guides, and clear escalation paths so the regional People function doesn't depend on any one person.
  • Connect Sunnyvale and EMEA. Make sure regional perspectives are part of global decisions early, and make global programs work locally. Know what has to stay consistent worldwide and what should flex by country, and bring HQ recommendations with the tradeoffs laid out, not just concerns.
  • Lead the region through growth and change. Support expansion into new countries and entities, reorganizations, and leadership transitions with a clear plan, narrative, and follow-through with managers and teams.
  • Increase talent density. Lead calibration, promotion, and talent review for the region. Identify and develop top talent, coach managers to raise the bar on their teams, and handle performance and employee relations issues with judgment, discretion, and dignity.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of HR experience, with at least 3 years partnering directly with senior leaders, preferably in a high-tech environment, and experience as the sole or lead People leader for a region or country.
  • Breadth across the full HR function: employee relations, compensation, payroll and leave administration, performance management, org design, and engagement.
  • Working knowledge of employment practices and requirements in Germany, Sweden, and England and the judgment to know when a question needs local counsel or another specialist before you act.
  • Strong business acumen. You understand how the business makes money, where the constraints are, and how talent decisions affect outcomes, and you can speak that language with executives.
  • Leadership and high agency. You've been the senior People leader for a region or business with minimal direction, directed partners across payroll, legal, benefits, and vendors without formal authority, and made decisions with incomplete information.
  • Strong judgment. You know when to move fast, when to slow down an irreversible decision, and when to bring in partners, and leaders trust your read on sensitive, ambiguous situations.
  • A record of influencing in both directions. You've advocated for a region with headquarters and challenged regional leaders when needed, and you can tell the difference between a legal requirement, a business need, and a preference.
  • A record of leading change, not just supporting it, including implementing global programs locally and guiding teams through growth or reorganization.
  • Fluency with data and clear, concise, direct communication, and the discipline to prioritize ruthlessly when everything feels urgent.
  • Business-level fluency in the local language is a plus. Comfort working across time zones with a People team based in California.

Skills

Required:HR leadershipOrg design and workforce planningEmployee relations and performance management

Benefits

  • 30 days of paid vacation per year
  • Daily meal benefits: €19 lunch budget and €19 dinner budget, free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office
  • €965 annual learning & development and €580 annual fitness budget
  • Subsidized Wellpass membership, giving access to thousands of gyms, studios, and wellness facilities across Germany
  • €25 monthly contribution to Deutschlandticket for regional public transport across Germany
  • Generous parental leave: on top of statutory parental leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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