Senior HR Business Partner (GTM), EMEA

Joining as our Sr HR Business Partner - EMEA, you’ll  own and execute Klaviyo’s HRBP Playbook, partnering with leaders across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and the broader EMEA region, often supporting them from a different location to your own. You’ll act as a thought partner for leaders and a trusted confidant to employees, coaching them on aligning teams to business objectives and enhancing team culture through learning and development, talent management, and performance management.

• Apply deep knowledge of employment law across multiple EMEA jurisdictions to give compliant, pragmatic guidance on complex employee relations issues.
• Engage and collaborate with works councils and employee representative bodies where applicable (preferred, not required).

• Partner with the DEI team as an advocate, coach, and facilitator, helping leaders build diverse and inclusive teams.

• Use data to identify people trends and translate them into recommendations, programs, and projects.
• Identify organisational gaps and deploy people strategies that help GTM and other teams scale effectively.

• Partner with the Talent Management COE to launch and run initiatives including performance reviews, succession planning, and org design.
• Collaborate with the wider HRBP team and People Ops functions (Talent Acquisition, Learning & Enablement, Compensation, DEI) to build and deploy programs across client groups.

• EMEA leaders treat you as a trusted advisor, you’re sought out for your expertise and perspective.
• You've built a strong, trusted presence across the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, and the wider EMEA region, despite operating across geographies.
• Employment law situations are handled with confidence, pragmatism, and without surprises.
• Your GTM clients report a measurably better partnership experience as Klaviyo scales across EMEA.
• People and org decisions are grounded in data and reflect a clear point of view, not just process.

Please note that job responsibilities may change from time to time. Your team lead will be the most up-to-date source for job expectations.

• BA/ BSc degree in Human Resources or related field.
• 7+ years of experience as an HRBP, with a significant proportion of that time supporting EMEA-based organisations.

• Deep pan-EMEA HR experience, with strong understanding of the cultural, legal, and organisational landscape across the region.
• Strong, demonstrable employment law knowledge across multiple EMEA jurisdictions (UK, Ireland, France, and Germany required; additional markets a plus), with the ability to provide pragmatic, commercially sound guidance on complex employee relations matters.
• Experience working with works councils or other employee representative bodies across EMEA markets.

• Experience supporting GTM teams: Sales, Presales, Customer Success, Marketing, and/or Partnerships, ideally in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Proven ability to build trust and deliver impact with leaders based outside your own location, managing relationships primarily through remote and cross-border ways of working.
• Ability to coach leaders and managers at all levels on personal and team development.
• Experience influencing and advising executives on talent and employment matters across multiple geographies.

• Ability to use people analytics to spot trends, build a case for investment, and measure whether people strategies are delivering results.
• Strong ability to drive change management in a rapidly scaling environment, with high levels of autonomy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, complex, competing priorities across a broad EMEA remit, with strong business acumen.

• HRIS experience, such as Workday, as well as proficiency Google Suite/ Microsoft.
• Comfortable working in an environment where AI is changing how teams operate and how work gets done
• Willing and able to travel depending on business needs (e.g. HQ Boston for Summits, EMEA office hubs). 

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