HR Specialist, EMEA - France (Fixed Term Contract)

TikTok; Paris; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking an HR Operations specialist for a one-year fixed-term contract in Paris, with potential to extend. You will help deliver a seamless employee experience across the lifecycle.

The role focuses on ensuring legal compliance in France, managing vendor relationships, and acting as the French point of contact for cross-functional teams.

You will design improvements to HR processes, support onboarding, transfers, leaves, terminations, and maintain employee data in line with local laws.

Qualifications

• Relevant training/degree in People Operations or HR and experience in HR functions.
• Strong knowledge of France employment laws and market practices; cross-country knowledge is a plus.
• Experience across onboarding, transfers, leaves, terminations, and HR case handling.
• Excellent communication in French; ability to handle confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Ensure legal compliance by applying HR requirements for the France market.
• Manage vendor relationships to improve service quality and experience.
• Be the primary point of contact for employee queries and support end-to-end HR solutions.
• Design improvements to HR processes and procedures.
• Support lifecycle processes: onboarding, terminations, data changes, leave, and benefits.
• Support relocation, immigration, and staffing administration tasks.

Skills

France employment laws

HR lifecycle management

French language proficiency

Analytical problem-solving

Discretion and ethics

Interpersonal & customer facing

Education

HR/People Operations degree

Job description

Responsibilities

The HR operations team, which is looking to hire on for a 1 year fixed term contract with potential to stay, endeavors to continuously build and deliver a seamless and positive employee experience across the whole employee lifecycle. We are dedicated to leading with care and have empathy in mind. We strive to develop efficient and simple people processes, systems, policies, and programs. We aspire to ensure employees feel heard and that they are given the appropriate resources and support needed to be effective and efficient during their careers.

1. Ensure legal compliance by managing and implementing applicable human resource local requirements for the local market in France, with the potential of extended remit to additional countries within Europe.
2. Be responsible for vendor management to improve operation and service quality, efficiency and experience (e.g. benefits vendors).
3. Committed to building good and harmonious employee relations.
4. First point of contact for any employee queries. Support employees and improve employee experience by providing end-to-end HR solutions to solve their issues.
5. Design and recommend enhancements, improvements and simplifications of existing HR processes and procedures.
6. Support employee life cycle management processes such as on-boarding management, termination, personal data changes, internal transfers , leave management & benefit operations including relevant documentation and employee file management in accordance to local legislation.
7. Support relocation, immigration and other responsibilities related to staffing administration.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Relevant training/degree and experience within People Operations/Human Resources.
2. Strong knowledge of France employment legislation/ compliance laws and market practices and favourably additional knowledge of other countries.
3. Experience with employee lifecycle (onboarding, transfers, performance cycles, leaves of absence and off-boarding) and providing end to end HR solutions
4. Analytical and problem-solving skills.
5. High level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics.
6. Humility, flexibility, and good interpersonal & customer facing skills are a must
7. High oral, written and listening proficiency in French due to multicultural daily operations and frequent communication with team members and business partners and working as the primary French point of contact for cross functional work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of multiple legislations and market practices within the region.

About TikTok

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day. We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.