Lead People Partner – Technology
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Lead People Partner shaping engineering and product people strategy at M-KOPA. Supporting financial inclusion through technology across African markets.
Responsibilities:
- Act as trusted advisor to engineering, data and platform leaders
- Align people strategy with roadmap execution and organisational evolution
- Own people partnering across the Technology and Product organisation
- Lead org design, workforce planning, levelling and team transformation
- Hold end-to-end accountability for Engineering and Product people partnering
- Coach, develop and set direction for a Senior People Partner
- Use people analytics to inform decisions on capability, attrition and cost
- Drive performance, engagement and team dynamics in distributed, asynchronous, multi-country teams
- Own senior and sensitive employee-relations cases
- Report to the People Director
- Partner with the CTO and leadership team across Engineering, Data, Analytics, IT and Security
Requirements:
- Senior HR experience partnering with engineering organisations in a scaling technology or fintech business
- Experience leading or formally coaching HR business partners
- Proven org design depth, including levelling, spans and layers, and function redesign
- Strategic and operational range, from long-term org strategy to team-level work
- Experience supporting cross-cultural teams across multiple regions
- Strong business acumen translating people priorities into business outcomes at leadership level
- Comfortable operating autonomously at C-level
- Employee relations judgement across more than one jurisdiction
- UK/Europe employment law exposure is useful but not essential
- Ability to work with globally distributed engineering, data, platform, Product, IT and Security organisations
Benefits:
- Professional development and coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support
- Career growth opportunities
- Direct exposure to the CTO and CPO, with influence over leadership-level people decisions
- Diverse development programs
- On-the-job training















