Senior People Consultant, Leadership & HR Advisory, EMEA

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

Job summary

The Senior People Consultant at Okta leads the team’s most complex advisory cases across EMEA, delivering advanced coaching on leadership, performance, and organisational challenges. You will mentor peers, review complex cases, and shape reusable guidance frameworks to improve AI-enabled support.

Collaborating with ER&C, Employment Legal, and regional specialists, you’ll navigate sensitive issues, escalate appropriately, and strengthen overall manager support within a fast-paced, AI-driven

Qualifications

• Deep professional expertise across Human Resources, HR Business Partnering, Employee Relations, management consulting, leadership coaching, or organisational development, with a focus on navigating complex performance management and remediation.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead and resolve highly complex, ambiguous advisory cases requiring advanced judgment, structured problem-solving, and cross-functional coordination.
• Proven experience advising senior leaders on sensitive leadership, performance, team effectiveness, and organisational challenges.
• Exceptional coaching, communication, influencing, and conflict resolution skills, including the ability to challenge assumptions, navigate competing perspectives, and guide leaders through difficult decisions.
• Strong understanding of leadership effectiveness, organisational dynamics, performance management, conflict resolution, risk assessment, and appropriate escalation practices.
• Familiarity with EMEA employment practices and employee representation processes, including works councils, is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to develop colleagues through peer coaching, case consultation, knowledge sharing, or reusable advisory frameworks.
• Experience evaluating or improving AI-enabled workflows, automated guidance, knowledge resources, or digital service capabilities to enhance manager support.
• Additional language skills are a plus, particularly Spanish, German, or French.

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

Management consulting

Organisational development

Cross-functional coordination

Advanced coaching

Change management

Multilingual skills

Job description

The Senior People Consultant at Okta leads the team’s most complex advisory cases across EMEA, delivering advanced coaching on leadership, performance, and organisational challenges. You will mentor peers, review complex cases, and shape reusable guidance frameworks to improve AI-enabled support.

Collaborating with ER&C, Employment Legal, and regional specialists, you’ll navigate sensitive issues, escalate appropriately, and strengthen overall manager support within a fast-paced, AI-driven