Senior People Business Partner - EMEA

The role

You will serve as the senior People leader and business strategist for the EMEA region. You will own end-to-end People programs and partner with country leaders to translate business goals into talent decisions.

What you will do

• Act as the senior People leader and business strategist for EMEA
• Translate business goals into talent decisions including org design, workforce planning, leveling, and succession
• Use data to identify attrition risk, capability gaps, and structural problems
• Lead end-to-end People programs including onboarding, payroll, benefits, compensation, and performance
• Direct stakeholders across the employee lifecycle including HQ People Operations, Payroll, Legal, and Total Rewards
• Build self-service resources, manager guides, and escalation paths
• Ensure regional perspectives are part of global decisions and adapt global programs for local use
• Support expansion into new countries, reorganizations, and leadership transitions
• Lead calibration, promotion, and talent review for the region
• Identify and develop top talent and coach managers

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of HR experience
• At least 3 years partnering directly with senior leaders
• Experience as the sole or lead People leader for a region or country
• Breadth across the full HR function including employee relations, compensation, payroll, leave administration, performance management, org design, and engagement
• Working knowledge of employment practices and requirements in Germany, Sweden, and England
• Strong business acumen
• Leadership and high agency
• Strong judgment
• A record of influencing in both directions
• A record of leading change
• Fluency with data
• Clear, concise, direct communication

Nice to have

• Business-level fluency in the local language
• Experience supporting engineering, research, or other highly technical organizations
• Experience supporting a region through entity setup or expansion into new countries, including work with an employer of record or PEO
• Experience building People programs from scratch in a high-growth company

Benefits

• 30 days of paid vacation per year
• €19 lunch budget daily
• €19 dinner budget daily
• Free breakfast, snacks, and drinks in the office
• €965 annual learning & development budget
• €580 annual fitness budget
• Subsidized Wellpass membership
• €25 monthly contribution to your Deutschlandticket
• Generous parental leave on top of statutory parental leave

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.