Senior People Partner

UK, Remote

60-70k

People Experience [PX] at Learnerbly

The People Experience team at Learnerbly are on a mission to create the best place anyone will ever want to work. We’ve invested in this team early, and the foundations we put in place in 2021 have put us ahead of many companies 3x our size. Learnerbly’s customers are people in roles just like yours, so your insights will be invaluable to Learnerbly's growth. ✨

Reporting into our Head of People Experience, Lauren Mason 👋, this role will be the first in our PX Partnering team which will exist to; steer Learnerbly as it grows, enable our people leaders, and guard our culture. We liken it to our customer success team - driving the performance and happiness of the teams they work with. 🤩

This role will introduce People Partnering best practice to Learnerbly and be critical to us developing a high performance culture. Experience partnering with Tech +/ Product teams and enabling companies to scale at speed will be key to success in this role.

What you'll be getting up to:

Steering Learnerbly through post-Series A expansion. Translating company strategy into a pragmatic People Plan that will unlock and enable company growth.
Shaping and embedding what a high performance culture looks like at Learnerbly - get ready to trail blaze!
Becoming the trusted partner to our leadership team. You'll push boundaries in their thinking, and advise on the best people strategy to unlock success in their teams.
Galvanising our manager population, coaching and developing them so they can learn and grow collectively.
Using both commercial + people data insights to implement people strategies that optimise performance and happiness in our teams.
Caring passionately, and advocating for diversity, equity, inclusion + belonging, intentionally building this into the people lifecycle.
Initiating our 'Learnerbly Listening' activity (engagement) in Leapsome to drive action within the teams you work with.
Solving complex business problems by finding creative and innovative solutions. You’ll translate ambiguous situations into clearly defined outcomes - thriving in the 'grey'.
Navigating our transition to fully distributed working (no hybrid or full-time office vibes over here 😅!)

This role will be a great fit if:

You’ve enabled a business to scale through a significant growth phase. We have 70 people now but plan to grow past 100+ this year.
You're already a People Partner who already loves working with Product +/ Tech and excited to partner with new teams too.
You're energised by the ownership that comes with being the first People Partner in a growing People Experience team (there's 5 of us already, not including you! 😏)
You pride yourself on your ability to build strong relationships - quickly. You're able to work with leaders who haven't worked with a people partnering model before + excited to show them what they're missing 😉
Your default is to use data to equip leaders with the insights they need to make decisions and plans, driving commercial solutions that have impact.
You have a sound working knowledge of UK employment law, and are comfortable adapting and picking up new countries too.
You're a natural influencer and instil trust with everyone you interact with. You can take people through journeys of change with relative ease.
You enjoy working with managers to develop their skills and improve team performance.
You're ready to throw out traditional HR, and embrace People Experience as a Product. 🚀

It'd be a bonus if:

You have experience leading Partnering teams, progression in this role would be leading the PX Partnering team in the future.
You've partnered with commercial teams, or teams based in the USA before.
You have knowledge of Agile practices and how they can be leveraged in the People space.

✍️ Application Questions

Have you partnered directly with Product/Tech teams before? (yes/no)
What interests you most about this role at Learnerbly? (max 250 words)
What role have you previously played in enabling a business to scale? (max 250 words)
How can a People Partner commercially leverage data to drive company growth + performance? (max 250 words)

Interview Process

📞 Initial screening with Marie (30 mins)
💡 Capabilities with Lauren, Marie (1 hour)
🎨 Task Interview with Lauren, Raj, Jonny (1 hour)
💜 Values Interview with Danny, Nic (1 hour)

📞 Screener

What's your understanding of Learnerbly?
What are you looking for from your next role? Why now?
Can you tell me about your Tech/Product Partnering experience? (what LT did they work with?)
What do you want out of your career? [IC or MG]?
Looking at the spec, what would be your biggest developmental challenge?
Are there any concerns you might have about Learnerbly +/ the role?
Is the salary range for this role within your expectations? What are your expectations for this role?
What's the earliest you could start a new position?

💡 Capabilities IC4

✨💬 Can you describe your approach as a PXP? How do you go about what you do best?
🌏 🚀 Could you talk us through the most complex, cross-functional initiative/project that you’ve led, what was the impact?
🚀✨💬 What is the most challenging collective behaviour change you've had to create at a dept/company level?
😎 Can you tell us about your experience leading performance management initiatives?
😎 How have you enabled first time managers in a previous role?
💬 Can you tell us about a stakeholder you've the most challenging relationship with? What did you learn from the experience?
🧠 What challenges do you foresee encountering in a business that is growing so quickly, but has so many people not performing to their full potential?
🧠 How do you measure a PXP's impact on the business? What health metrics might you look at?
If you looked at your calendar over the past few weeks, what % would you guesstimate were made up of meetings?