People Partner (Tech)

marshmallow; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic technology company in Greater London is seeking a People Partner to collaborate with the CTO and Technology leadership. This role involves shaping people strategies to enhance performance and growth across the UK business. Ideal candidates will have hands-on employee relations experience and a proven track record in fostering inclusive cultures. Benefits include flexible working, competitive bonuses, and a comprehensive perks package to support your wellbeing and professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working

Competitive bonus scheme

Flexible benefits budget

Mental wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Private health care

Medical cash plan

Tech scheme

Qualifications

• Build trusted relationships quickly with senior leaders.
• Proven People Partner experience supporting Technology teams.
• Curious and data-minded with insights for team effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO to deliver people strategies.
• Provide strategic guidance on organisational design.
• Lead frontline employee relations support across business areas.

Skills

People Partner experience supporting Technology teams

Hands-on employee relations expertise

Problem-solving in complex situations

Strategic thinking with data-driven insights

Excellent communication skills

Job description

About Marshmallow

We exist to make migration easy.

A systemic problem of this magnitude requires a team of curious thinkers who relentlessly pursue solutions. Those who constantly challenge the why, dismantle assumptions, and always take action to build a better way.

A Marshmallow career is built on a cycle of continuous growth, with learning at its core. You will be challenged to raise the bar on your capabilities and supported with the right tools and guidance to do so. This ensures you can deliver impactful work and drive change.

If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our Culture Handbook to find out more.

Move our mission, and your career, forward.

People Team

Our People team sits at the heart of Marshmallow, partnering with leaders across the business to build high-performing, inclusive, and engaged teams. We focus on creating a consistent, high-quality People experience at every stage of the employee lifecycle, enabling our people to do their best work while staying true to our values.

Within this, our Technology organisation – spanning Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, and Product is a critical driver of Marshmallow’s growth and innovation. By closely partnering with the CTO and Tech leadership, the People team helps shape organisational design, supports leadership capability, and champions a culture where teams are empowered, collaborative, and continuously improving.

What you'll be doing

• Partner with the CTO and Technology leadership (Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Product) to shape and deliver people strategies that enable high performance and growth

• Provide strategic guidance on organisational design, workforce planning, and team effectiveness across the UK Technology organisation

• Act as a trusted coach to leaders on performance, development, engagement, and team dynamics, using data and insights to inform decisions

• Lead on frontline employee relations support for multiple UK business areas, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes

• Drive the implementation of core People programmes (e.g. performance, talent development, engagement, reward cycles) within Tech, in close collaboration with wider People teams

• Champion an inclusive, values-led culture and identify opportunities to improve people processes and the overall employee experience across the UK business

Who You Are

• Build trusted relationships quickly; earn credibility with senior leaders while staying approachable. You bring proven People Partner experience supporting Technology teams, with comprehensive employee lifecycle knowledge.

• Pragmatic problem-solver in complex situations with hands-on UK employee relations expertise, understanding of employment legislation, and a track record of influencing senior stakeholders.

• Strategic thinker who rolls up their sleeves: combine organisational design thinking with data-driven insights to diagnose issues and drive high-performance cultures in fast-paced environments.

• Curious and data-minded: use insights and experimentation to improve team effectiveness and build inclusive cultures. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Proven experience managing complex employee relations matters and delivering strategic people projects with demonstrated impact on organizational performance.

Perks of the job

• Flexible working - Spend 3 days per week with your team in our new collaborative London office, and own your own working hours. The rest is up to you 🏠

• Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance 🌟

• Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben Mastercard meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes 💰

• Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva 💚

• Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset 🤓

• Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches 🏥

• Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)

• Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less 🖥

Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!

Our process

We break it up into 4 stages:

• Initial call with someone in the Talent team (45 mins)

• A skill-based interview where you’ll discuss your experience as a People Partner, especially supporting Technology teams and UK employee relations (1 hour)

• A culture interview to explore how your ways of working align with our values and ways of partnering with leaders (1 hour)

• A conversational meeting with a senior Technology leader to understand the context you’d be partnering in and ask any final questions (30–45 mins)

We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application.

Background checks
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and trustworthy environment, we’ll carry out standard background checks, including a DBS and a Cifas check. These help ensure there are no ongoing criminal proceedings and support the prevention of fraud and other forms of serious misconduct. If anything of concern is identified, it may affect your eligibility for certain roles or services. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!

Everyone belongs at Marshmallow

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.

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