Senior People Partner - Fixed term leave cover

Lokalise; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote setup with flexible hours

Co-working budget

Flexible vacation policy

Home office setup budget

Learning & development budget

Health insurance

Wellness allowance

Great startup culture

Job summary

Lokalise is seeking a Senior People Partner to translate business priorities into practical HR strategies across Finance, Legal, Marketing, Sales and Customer Success in a remote-first company. In a distributed environment, you will partner with leaders, model compensation cycles, oversee headcount data, and manage EOR engagements across European jurisdictions.

This 12-month parental leave cover requires strong data-driven judgment, employee relations expertise, and a proactive, people-first

Qualifications

• Business-first, human-forward HR mindset.
• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, incl. 1 year in senior HRBP/HR leadership.
• Experience with fully remote or distributed teams.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills for remote work.
• Expertise in employee relations, performance, talent development, and org design.
• Proactive use of AI to increase impact.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate goals into HR strategies.

Responsibilities

• Serve as dedicated People Partner for G&A and GTM functions across a distributed, remote-first workforce.
• Lead priorities across talent acquisition, employee engagement and development.
• Partner with Finance to model compensation cycle budgets and translate headcount data into recommendations.
• Manage EOR engagements and multi-country compliance across European jurisdictions.
• Lead complex ER cases with external legal advisors where needed.
• Drive org design work: job architecture, level changes, promotions.
• Collaborate with Product & Engineering and People Ops for a coherent, company-wide approach.
• Bring a business-first perspective with data-backed recommendations and proactive momentum.
• Drive continuous improvement of People processes in a remote environment.

Skills

HR leadership

Remote work experience

Communication

Influencing skills

Tools

HRIS systems

EOR platforms

Job description

Who Are We

At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage both software and marketing content from a single, unified environment — ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel.

Who Are We

At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage both software and marketing content from a single, unified environment — ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel. By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, Lokalise enables product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate without friction and launch globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost. Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, Lokalise empowers millions of people worldwide to use digital services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform fits seamlessly into your design, development, and content workflows, helping you scale with consistency and control.

Location

While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in the UK, Spain or Latvia for this position.

• This is a fixed term, remote position. Please note that we do not engage on a B2B or contractor basis.
• We do not partner with search firms

About

Lokalise is looking for a senior People partner who can turn the priorities of G&A and GTM leaders into clear, practical people decisions, while ensuring continuity during a 12-month parental leave cover. In a distributed business operating across multiple countries, decisions about organizational structure, performance, compensation, talent, and employee relations are closely connected to business performance and require experienced judgment. This role will help leaders build effective teams, address complex people matters early, and make data-informed decisions about organizational design, workforce investment, and talent. By connecting business needs with a consistent, human-first People approach, the Senior People Partner will reduce organizational and employment risk, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and help teams remain focused and perform through change. This reflects the broader purpose of a senior HRBP: translating business priorities into practical people strategies and measurable organizational outcomes.

You will

• Serve as the dedicated People Partner for G&A and GTM functions (Finance, Legal, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success), owning the full HRBP relationship with those leaders and their teams across a distributed, remote-first workforce
• Lead and support your stakeholder groups’ priorities across all areas of talent acquisition, employee engagement and development
• Partner directly with Finance to model compensation cycle budgets for your client groups, translating headcount and market data into actionable recommendations
• Manage EOR engagements (primarily Oyster) for employees in your client groups, navigating the the full employment cycle, and compliance requirements across multiple European jurisdictions
• Lead complex ER cases autonomously, with direct engagement with EOR partners and external legal advisors where needed
• Drive org design work within your client groups: job architecture, JD development, level changes, and promotion cases, keeping role definitions sharp as the business scales
• Partner with the Senior HRBP for Product & Engineering and with People Ops to deliver a coherent, consistent people approach company-wide, including shared cycle ownership and cross-functional coordination
• Bring a business-first perspective to every HRBP conversation, showing up with a point of view, data-backed recommendations, and a bias for moving things forward rather than waiting to be asked
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation in People processes and practices to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and employee experience within a remote environment.

You must have

• Business first human forward approach to your craft.
• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 1 year in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role.
• Experience working with a fully remote or distributed team.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills with the ability to build effective relationships in a remote work environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in all areas of HR, including employee relations, performance management, talent development, and organizational design.
• Demonstrated proactivity in leveraging AI to increase impact.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand business goals and translate them into HR strategies and initiatives.

Our Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
• Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.
• Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.
• Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.
• Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.
• Health insurance to keep you covered.
• Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.
• Great startup culture: remote but close-knit, with regular retreats and social events to stay connected.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.