Senior HRBP

Faire; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Faire is seeking a UK-based Senior HRBP to partner with the UK leadership and Head of International on talent, performance, and organisational design. You will drive UK people strategy, employee relations, and culture initiatives while aligning with global HR programs.

You’ll lead data-driven decision-making, governance, and UK-specific programs, with hybrid work and strong collaboration across time zones and teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5y+ HRBP experience with senior leaders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication.
• Analytical skills to interpret people data.
• Ability to deliver both in-the-moment guidance and long-term impact.
• Willingness to work across multiple timezones.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary UK HRBP partnering with the Head of International and UK leadership for organisational health and workforce strategy.
• Voice UK needs in strategy, processes, and programs; coach leaders on talent management and performance cycles.
• Lead end-to-end employee relations in the UK and coach managers for high performance.
• Champion Faire's culture, engagement, and change management across International.
• Leverage people data to influence decisions and maintain governance and compliance.

Skills

HRBP experience

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Discretion

Timezone flexibility

Job description

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

UK-based HR leader who will serve as the primary HR Business Partner for our UK organisation as well as driving strategic, HRBP led global initiatives.

This person will be a key member of the UK leadership team, the main HR partner supporting the Head of International, and the voice of UK employees in all people-related matters. They will lead talent management, performance, and organisational effectiveness efforts in the UK. In addition, the role will own strategic HRBP projects that improve processes, enhance engagement, and support effective decision-making across the HRBP function.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years of HRBP specific business partner experience, exceptional stakeholder management, strong analytical skillset and the ability to deliver both in-the-moment guidance and long-term impact.

What you’ll do

Senior HRBP

• Serve as the primary HRBP for the UK, partnering closely with the Head of International and the UK leadership team to provide coaching and guidance on organisational health, talent planning, workforce strategy, and manager capability.
• Act as the voice of the UK in people decisions, ensuring regional context and needs are incorporated into strategy, processes, and programs.
• Partner with leaders to drive effective talent management, including performance cycles, career development, promotions, organisational design, and succession planning.

Employee Relations & Performance

• Lead end-to-end employee relations matters for the UK, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant processes.
• Provide coaching to managers and employees to promote a culture of accountability, empathy, and high performance.
• Support performance management cases, development plans, and escalations with sound judgment and discretion.

Culture, Communications & Change

• Champion Faire’s culture within the UK, ensuring strong communication, engagement, and alignment across teams.
• Partner on engagement survey action planning and retention initiatives across International
• Guide leaders and employees through organisational change, delivering clear communication plans and supporting effective adoption.

Data-Driven People Insights

• Leverage people data and insights to influence decision-making, identify trends, and proactively address organisational risks or opportunities.
• Maintain strong HR governance, ensuring documentation, compliance, and internal processes are followed appropriately.

Day-to-Day Local HR Operations

• Own day-to-day UK HR operational needs in partnership with the broader People Operations and HR Centers of Excellence teams.
• Advise on UK-specific requirements for HR programs across immigration, benefits, leaves and accommodations.

Strategic Projects Lead

Strategic People Programs

• Support the Head of HRBPs and broader HRBP team on strategic initiatives including OKR tracking, ongoing retention and org design activities, updates to performance process and philosophy and manager education materials as well as acting as the voice of the HRBP team on change management projects that span across various teams.
• Lead Project management for cross functional initiatives as required.
• Stay closely informed on the evolution of AI and emerging HR/People-tech tooling in the market.
• Regularly experiment with new AI tools and technologies to identify opportunities that improve HRBP workflows, enhance manager enablement, or streamline people processes.
• Partner on the launch of new AI tools globally with key x-functional teams, including developing rollout plans and gathering feedback.
• Partner with key internal teams to influence product/tooling roadmaps and ensure solutions are aligned to business needs and scalable for the UK and broader International organisation.
• Proactively identify opportunities to streamline HRBP workflows, strengthen manager enablement, and enhance how people processes operate globally.
• Ensure key trackers are updated, maintained, and optimised for usability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5y+ of HRBP specific experience supporting senior leaders and influencing strategic decisions
• Understanding of HR practices across performance, talent management, employee relations, and organisational design
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate people data effectively
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
• High empathy with the ability to balance employee experience and business needs
• Excellent judgment and discretion in handling sensitive matters
• Flexibility to work across multiple timezones
• [Nice to have] Experience supporting international or multi-region teams
• [Nice to have] Familiarity with high-growth tech, marketplaces, or startup environments.

Salary Range

UK London: The pay range for this role is £75,000 and £103,500 per year

This role will also be eligible for benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener‑Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog .

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)

U.K. Demographic Questions

We believe the future is local. At the core of that future are our customers, a diverse and unique community of entrepreneurs who have taken a chance on themselves. We’re inspired by these dreamers who work today and every day for a better future for their communities. Therefore, the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are paramount for us.

We are committed to building a community and sense of belonging here at Faire that reflects the customers we serve. We want to ensure that we hold ourselves to that commitment externally and internally because differences in perspectives, experiences, and ideas are what make us successful.

Below is a set of completely voluntary demographic questions that collect data on the areas we are working to measure as part of our Diversity and Inclusion initiatives. Your responses, or your choice to not respond, will not be associated with your specific application and will not, in any way, be used in the hiring decision. The survey is completely anonymous. All responses will be anonymized and will not be used to identify any individual employee. Responses will be treated as confidential and will be securely stored. If you choose to fill out these questions, the responses will be used in aggregate only .

Your responses empower us to better understand and develop our business and enable us to monitor the effectiveness of our equal opportunity policies. By leveraging this information, we can better measure our performance and progress toward our belonging, inclusivity, equity, and diversity goals and in ensuring a truly inclusive working environment. We are grateful for any information you’re able to provide.

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