Senior People Consultant, EMEA — AI-First Leadership

Okta; Dublin; On-site; EUR 76,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta is seeking a Senior People Consultant to lead the team’s most complex advisory cases across EMEA, providing advanced coaching on leadership, performance, and organisational challenges. You will collaborate with ER&C, Employment Legal, and regional specialists to optimize AI-enabled guidance and support.

You will elevate the team’s effectiveness through peer coaching and reusable guidance frameworks, tackling entrenched issues with sound judgment and structured problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Deep professional expertise across HR, HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, management consulting, leadership coaching, or organisational development.
• Strong focus on navigating complex performance management and remediation.
• Ability to independently lead and resolve highly complex advisory cases.
• Experience advising senior leaders on sensitive leadership, performance, team effectiveness, and organisational challenges.
• Exceptional coaching, communication, influencing, and conflict resolution skills.
• Understanding of leadership effectiveness, organisational dynamics, performance management, conflict resolution, risk assessment, and escalation practices.
• Familiarity with EMEA employment practices and employee representation processes, including works councils, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced coaching to managers and senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, employee development, team dynamics, organisational change, and complex performance challenges.
• Lead the assessment and resolution of highly ambiguous or sensitive cases by diagnosing root causes, evaluating competing perspectives, and advising on decisions that balance business priorities, employee experience, and organisational risk.
• Guide leaders through entrenched resistance, difficult conversations, and high-impact decisions while reinforcing accountability for outcomes and sustainable solutions.
• Exercise advanced judgment within established decision rights, identifying risks and ensuring sensitive, high-impact, or jurisdictionally complex matters follow appropriate escalation pathways to ER&C, Employment Legal, PBPs, Labor Relations, works councils, or regional specialists.
• Strengthen team capability through peer coaching, complex case reviews, and reusable frameworks that improve diagnostic skills, case strategy, and escalation judgment.
• Analyse recurring case patterns and AI-supported interactions to identify gaps in guidance and opportunities to improve AI resources, workflows, knowledge content, and decision guardrails in partnership with Enablement and technology teams.

Skills

HR consulting

Leadership coaching

Employee relations

Organisational development

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

Okta is seeking a Senior People Consultant to lead the team’s most complex advisory cases across EMEA, providing advanced coaching on leadership, performance, and organisational challenges. You will collaborate with ER&C, Employment Legal, and regional specialists to optimize AI-enabled guidance and support.

You will elevate the team’s effectiveness through peer coaching and reusable guidance frameworks, tackling entrenched issues with sound judgment and structured problem-solving.