Verda
Lead People Business Partner
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At Verda, we're building a fully featured European AI cloud, covering everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem.
Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.
Your responsibilities
- Act as a trusted partner to designated senior leaders across the business, aligning people strategy with business objectives to support growth, performance, and scalability.
- Coach and guide leaders on organizational design, team effectiveness, and leadership development, while supporting workforce planning across multiple countries.
- Drive talent and performance initiatives that enable high-performing teams, foster a strong feedback culture, and support engagement and retention.
- Play a key role in organizational design and transformation, acting as a change partner during periods of growth and evolution.
- Provide guidance on employee relations topics, partnering with legal and external advisors where needed, while also contributing to shaping and embedding Verda’s culture and values across teams.
- Help design and continuously improve global People programs and processes, using data and insights to inform decisions and increase impact.
- Be a team leader of a team of People Business Partners.
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Your key competencies
- 8+ years of HR Business Partnering experience
- Experience supporting senior leaders in a global, fast-paced environment
- Strong knowledge of organizational development, talent management, and employee relations
- Experience working across international or multi-country environments
- Strong business and commercial acumen
- Strategic thinker with the ability to execute hands-on
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into action
- High emotional intelligence and strong coaching capability
- Adaptable, resilient, and comfortable working in ambiguity
- Collaborative and culturally aware
- Team lead experience
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Nice to have
- Experience in SaaS, cloud, AI, or technology businesses
- Experience in scale-up or high-growth environments
- Knowledge of EMEA, APAC, and/or US employment practices
Practicalities
- Location: London
- Hybrid mode: 3 days a week from the office either in London
- Employment type: Full-time and permanent
- Reporting line: VP People
Why Verda
- Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.)
- Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth
- 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team
- An opportunity to have a clear impact and work closely with leadership while shaping how we scale globally
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