HR Business Partner - Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)

Lovable; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is seeking a Human Resources Business Partner to partner with Engineering, Product & Design in London (Stockholm optional) as a trusted advisor to the leadership team. You will coach on org design, location strategy, talent planning, employee relations, manager effectiveness, and change management as we scale across locations.

This in-office role embeds with EPD to drive AI-native people operations, headcount planning, performance cycles, and retention through pragmatic, human-centered

Qualifications

• 10+ years in HRBP or People Partner roles supporting technical teams
• Experience at AI-native, developer-tools, or high-growth tech companies
• Strong business judgment linking people decisions to product velocity and leadership performance
• Excellent judgment in employee relations, including sensitive cases
• Comfort giving hard feedback to senior technical leaders
• Adaptable to ambiguity and fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

• Strategic People Partnership with EPD leaders to shape teams, leadership effectiveness, retention, and change
• Lead AI-native People Operations and scalable processes to speed work and maintain human-centered culture
• Org Design, Headcount Planning, and future workforce shaping with Eng Leads, Finance, Recruiting
• Manage quarterly performance reviews and calibration processes for EPD
• Identify flight risks and gaps through people data and design practical interventions
• Own employee relations and risk management in partnership with Legal and People Ops
• Coach technical leaders through promotions, changes, and feedback to improve team health
• Drive People Program execution including manager enablement, career paths, leveling, and engagement changes

Job description

TL;DR: We're hiring a Human Resources Business Partner to partner with Engineering, Product & Design (EPD) at Lovable - our largest and fastest-growing organization. You'll act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team, and fly at many different altitudes every day. You’ll advise on org design, location strategy, talent planning, employee relations, manager effectiveness, and change management as we scale across Stockholm and London.

This is an in-office role is based in Stockholm or London.

Why Lovable?

Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. For decades, turning an idea into software required so much capital, technical fluency, and time that many ideas never came to life. Lovable is the counterargument: a platform for all people with ideas, ambition, and problems worth solving. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 60 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. And we’re just getting started.

We’re building a generational company from Stockholm, with growing teams in London, Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Our team is small, talent-dense, and moving quickly, with a culture rooted in extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We look for people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

Lovable is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and has been recognized on the Forbes AI 50 and CNBC Disruptor 50, reflecting our momentum as one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI companies and one of the most ambitious places to build in this next era of software.

The Role

You'll be deeply embedded with Engineering, Product, and Design as a strategic partner and operator: someone leaders trust for candid coaching, clear judgment, and pragmatic execution. You will spot patterns before they become problems, bring structure without slowing the team down, and turn People programs into AI enabled operating rhythms that work for a technical org.

What You'll Do

• Strategic People Partnership — build deep partnerships with EPD leaders and act as a trusted advisor on the people decisions that shape the business: team design, leadership effectiveness, talent density, retention, and change.

• AI-Native People Operations — rethink how work gets done in an AI-native company: experiment with AI-enabled workflows to increase velocity and craftsmanship (e.g., manager enablement, insight generation, communications, and operating rhythms), and help EPD leaders adopt them in a thoughtful, human-first way.

• Org Design & Headcount Planning — partner with Eng Leads, Finance, Recruiting, and People Ops to bring clarity and discipline to workforce planning, reporting lines, role definition, spans/layers, contractor strategy, and future org shape.

• Performance Reviews — Run EPD's quarterly Signal Review cycle end-to-end, including manager prep, calibration, monitor/at-risk categorization, level corrections, follow-through, and clean operating rhythms.

• Talent Insights & Retention — use qualitative signal and people data to identify hot spots, flight risks, manager gaps, and team-level patterns early; translate those insights into practical interventions.

• Employee Relations & Risk Management — own complex employee situations, performance improvement plans, investigations, resignations, probation issues, and terminations for EPD in partnership with Legal and People Ops.

• Manager & Leadership Coaching — coach technical leaders through hard conversations, promotion readiness, org changes, feedback, accountability, team health, and moments where clarity matters more than consensus.

• People Program Execution — help shape and roll out scalable People programs for EPD, including manager enablement, career pathing, leveling consistency, compensation cycles, engagement follow-up, and change management.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years as an HRBP or People Partner, with meaningful experience directly supporting Engineering, Product, Design, Research, or similarly technical organizations.

• Experience at an AI-native, developer tools, product-led, or high-growth technology company.

• Strong business judgment and the ability to connect people decisions to company priorities, product velocity, leadership effectiveness, and team performance.

• Excellent judgment in employee relations, including sensitive performance, conduct, probation, resignation, and termination situations.

• Comfortable giving hard feedback to senior technical leaders while maintaining strong relationships and discretion.

• Comfort with ambiguity, pace, and imperfect systems in a company where structure is still being built in real time.