Sr People Partner, EMEA

Job Title: Sr People Partner, EMEA

Work Location: London (Remote)

Start Date: ASAP

Recently named ‘Adweek Creator Agency of the Year, Whalar is a global, award-winning creator commerce company that works closely with today’s biggest brands, content creators, and world-leading social platforms to deliver innovative and creative content. We differentiate ourselves by our unique capabilities, including proprietary technology, brand partnership expertise, brilliant creator talent management, and dedicated Web3 innovation practice. 

We believe this is a rare chance to join a truly special team and to help us shape the future of a highly respected, growth-oriented business that is committed to doing well by doing good.

As a Sr People Partner, you will be crucial in helping Whalar build and scale during this explosive stage of growth. This is a high-impact role, partnering with our teams in London, Spain, Germany, and Estonia to drive our People strategy and initiatives. This will be an instrumental role in keeping Whalar a global leader in the Influence space.

• Work with the Head of People to manage the daily people operations for EMEA and support all stages of the employee lifecycle; including onboarding, payroll, and benefits management.
• Deliver outstanding customer service by delivering best-in-class strategic and operational HR support
• Will manage a People Coordinator 
• Serve as a crucial point of contact between executive leadership and employees
• Maintain compliance with employment laws and regulations
• Facilitate and lead employee relations activities, including conducting internal audits and disciplinary meetings
• Partner closely with the broader HR team
• Brings new ideas to the table

• 6+ years experience in an HR Business Partner or equivalent role
• Experience with UK and Spanish employment law ( Germany & Estonia are a bonus) 
• Fluent in English and at least one other language (ideally Spanish)
• In-depth knowledge and experience dealing with complex employee relations cases, with the ability to analyze, interpret and explain employment law.
• Own employee onboarding for EMEA Teams. 
• A passion for building diverse teams and delivering an exceptional employee experience.
• Track record of building successful programs, consensus, and comfortable having both strategic and tactical responsibilities.
• Expertise in anticipating issues across the organization and recognizing opportunities and proactively developing initiatives
• Experience collaborating with key stakeholders across the organization, gaining trust, and working with teams to iterate on the process.

• Startup experience (huge points)
• Experience in marketing, advertising, or influencer space 
• Experience building learning and development programs 
• Experience with Greenhouse 
• Knowledge and experience with immigration and visa filing

Our people are our superpower. At Whalar, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are at the core of who we are. We are deeply committed to reflecting on the unique journeys, authentic voices, and perspectives of our people, our creators, and the communities they represent. Our hope is to impact accessibility beyond compliance and help break societal stigmas and stereotypes.  We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for everything creator, we want to meet you, and we encourage you to apply.

Whalar is a remote-first working environment, providing our employees with the flexibility to be their most creative and successful versions of themselves. Whalar is located across 18 states in the US and 6 countries including offices in London and Malaga, Spain. Whalar provides flexible benefits and collaborative work environments/experiences, empowering employees to work productively in a setting that best and uniquely suits their needs.

• • Company-wide yearly bonus
  • Private medical insurance
  • Health cash plan
  • 25 days of PTO + Sick days + Winter break
  • Private pension scheme
  • Monthly phone/internet reimbursement
  • Professional development stipend
  • Home office allowance
  • 16 weeks of paid maternity/paternity leave
  • Calm App subscription (Add up to 4 dependents)
  • Fwrd personal development App subscription
  • Volunteer Days

Whalar provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring, promotions, training, working conditions, compensation, and benefits.