Interim People Partner - Tech in London

We are seeking a highly capable People Partner to join our high‑performing team for a 1‑year fixed‑term contract to cover maternity leave. This role is critical, partnering with leaders to deliver people strategies that drive performance, engagement, and scalable growth. This person will also be partnering with tech department leaders.

As a People Partner, you'll work closely with senior managers and functional leaders to translate company priorities into actionable people plans. You'll bring clarity, commerciality, and care to everything you do, enabling leaders to make confident decisions and empowering teams to thrive.

Due to the recent acquisition and ongoing integration of two organisations alongside our huge growth ambitions, this role is for someone who thrives in fast‑paced, scaling environments and knows how to bring clarity, commerciality, and dedication to employee experience in fast‑scaling teams.

You'll be responsible for implementing core people processes, enabling change initiatives, and ensuring we're building a culture that reflects our values as we scale during this important period.

If you thrive in fast‑paced, high‑impact environments, know how to balance tactical delivery with strategic thinking, and want to make a meaningful impact on people and performance over a fixed term, we'd love to meet you.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Leaders to Deliver People Plans
• Work with Senior Leaders and Managers across the tech department to co‑create people priorities with business goals.
• Provide insight, challenge, and recommendations on people topics across the full employee lifecycle including org design, high performance culture, and leading change.
• Act as a trusted adviser and coach, ensuring leaders have the mindset, capability, and confidence to lead their teams effectively.
• Implement and manage key people processes (e.g. performance reviews, engagement surveys, talent planning) in your functions, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Drive Performance and Engagement
• Support leaders to embed the performance process, ensuring objectives, feedback, and development conversations drive high performance.
• Use a range of data insights including People Data, Engagement Results, performance, and external sources to proactively partner on action planning, and monitor progress against agreed initiatives.
• Champion our values and ensure they are embedded into ways of working.
• Lead Change at a Functional Level
• Co‑deliver change management activities with Senior Leaders and Managers, ensuring buy‑in, clear communication, leader enablement, and smooth implementation.
• Lead integration projects, restructures, or shifts in operating models, working closely with senior People Partners and other stakeholders.
• Enable Leadership and Manager Capability
• Coach and guide Leaders and Managers on people topics, from performance and development to team dynamics and organisational change.
• Identify capability gaps and partner with the relevant People Team functions to address them, including through the creation and delivery of learning content.

What Success Looks Like

• Leaders in your functions feel equipped and confident to lead their teams through growth and change, and to drive performance, engagement and team development.
• Core people processes are delivered with consistency, quality, and impact.
• People's insights such as engagement, churn, and absence remain healthy, and engagement and performance metrics in your functions improve, with clear links to actions you've partnered on.
• Change initiatives in your remit are implemented smoothly, with positive feedback from leaders and teams.
• Successful project delivery across your business function and the People Team.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in a People Partner role partnering in fast‑growing tech companies.
• A track record of partnering and influencing senior leaders across tech functions (Engineering, Product and/or Design).
• Strong understanding of organisational design, performance management, leadership development and change management.
• A coaching mindset and excellent communication skills. You know when to challenge and when to support.
• A commercial approach to people work, with a focus on impact, data and action and balancing employee experience.
• Comfort operating across regions and time zones, with experience partnering international teams.
• A bias for clarity, consistency and care in everything you do.

What We Offer

Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk. Rest and recharge with 25 days of annual leave plus.