Overview
In this role you will be a strategic People partner for Product Engineering and Operations, shaping a high-impact people strategy that drives performance and scalable growth. You’ll advise senior leaders, influence organizational design, and embed an inclusive, high-performing culture in a fast-moving fintech environment. You will balance commercial aims with people expertise to enable teams to perform at their best. This is an opportunity to shape leadership capability, talent strategy, and culture at Vitesse, with a strong impact on the business and its people.
Pay / Benefits
- flexible working schedule
- 35 hours per week
- hybrid work arrangement
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to translate business objectives into actionable people strategies
- Coach leaders to drive accountability and high performance
- Drive workforce planning and support Talent Acquisition to align hiring with growth
- Coach managers to elevate recruitment standards and ensure quality selection processes
- Identify capability gaps and future talent risks in Product Engineering and Operations
- Lead performance management cycles with goal setting, feedback, calibration, and development planning
- Enable managers to manage both high and low performance
- Embed a culture of continuous feedback, accountability, and growth
- Diagnose development needs and implement targeted learning initiatives
- Coach managers to strengthen leadership, engagement, and team effectiveness
- Support succession planning and internal mobility strategies
- Advise on employee relations matters with risk-aware, commercially sound guidance
- Ensure people practices align with employment law and regulatory requirements
- Embed inclusive leadership practices and drive equitable talent outcomes
- Translate engagement data into actionable insights and drive improvements
- Lead retention strategies for critical talent populations
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and cultural alignment
- Leverage people data to inform decisions and track metrics like attrition and hiring effectiveness
- Lead the people aspects of organisational change, including restructures and process transformation
Key requirements
- Significant experience as a Senior HR Business Partner or Senior People Partner in a fast-paced, scaling environment (fintech or technology preferred)
- Proven experience partnering with Product, Engineering, or Technical teams
- Strong commercial acumen linking People strategy to business performance
- Deep understanding of employment law, regulatory frameworks, and People best practices
- Experience managing complex employee relations and organisational change
- High ownership, accountability, and independent working style
- Credible coaching and influencing skills with senior stakeholders
- Analytical mindset with ability to translate People data into strategic insights
- Passion for HR and enabling Product & Technology teams
- coaching
- influencing
- ownership
- employment law knowledge
- regulatory frameworks
- people analytics
Senior People Partner in London employer: Vitesse
Vitesse is an exceptional employer that fosters a dynamic work culture focused on innovation and collaboration. Located in a vibrant area, we offer our employees comprehensive benefits, including professional development opportunities and a commitment to work-life balance, making it an ideal place for those looking to grow their careers in finance while contributing to meaningful transformation in the industry.
