Regional People Lead, EMEA

Duolingo · London, Englandsenior

In short

▸Líder de Recursos Humanos para la región EMEA con enfoque en estrategia y operaciones locales.
▸Gestiona compliance multi país, relaciones laborales complejas y alianzas con proveedores externos (PEO).
▸Actúa como puente entre estrategia global y ejecución regional, con impacto directo en la experiencia del empleado.

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What they ask for

✓Experiencia comprobada como socio de RH estratégico en entornos internacionales.
✓Conocimiento profundo de compliance laboral en Reino Unido, Alemania y mercados PEO.
✓Capacidad para liderar equipos y gestionar relaciones con proveedores externos (PEO/EOR).
✓Experiencia en gestión de casos laborales complejos y procesos disciplinarios.
✓Habilidades analíticas para interpretar datos de empleados y tomar decisiones basadas en evidencia.
✓Experiencia con sistemas globales de RH como Workday y procesos de planificación de talento.

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Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. It’s a big mission, and that’s where you come in! At Duolingo, you’ll join a team that cares about educating our users, experimenting with big ideas, making fact-based decisions, and finding innovative solutions to complex problems. You’ll have limitless learning opportunities and daily collaborations with world-class minds — while doing work that’s both meaningful and fun. Join our life-changing mission to develop education for our half a billion (and growing!) learners around the world. Read our blog to learn more. About the role... We're looking for a Regional People Lead to serve as both a senior People Business Partner and the operational owner for our growing EMEA presence. Based in London, you'll bridge global strategy and local execution: delivering sharp counsel to regional leaders while keeping compliance, operations, and the employee experience running seamlessly. Navigating a mix of direct entities and PEO-supported markets, you're as comfortable handling multi-country compliance as you are advising leaders. Reporting to the Head of Talent Management and Rewards (TMR), you will lead and develop a People Operations Manager, champion the EMEA region in global planning, and ensure local nuance actively shapes our global strategy. 🧠 You will... Strategic Partnership • Serve as the senior People Partner to EMEA leaders, building deep business understanding and advising on org design, performance, team health, and growth. • Lead engagement, inclusion, and talent planning initiatives across the region, and drive talent density in partnership with TA. • Guide leaders and teams through organizational change, translating global OKRs and TMR programs into plans that fit regional context and surfacing gaps back to TMR. • Own complex employee relations and higher-risk people matters across the region, including investigations, grievances, performance and disciplinary processes, and settlement agreements, applying employment-law judgment and knowing when to bring in Legal or the central team. • Use people data and engagement insight to spot organizational health trends early and recommend action. Regional Operations & Compliance • Own regional People operations end to end, leading a People Operations Manager who delivers day-to-day execution across direct entities and PEO-supported markets, while staying close enough to the detail to catch compliance and payroll risk yourself. • Own the regional PEO/EOR relationship (currently Globalization Partners), including monthly payroll submissions across multiple calendars, employment changes, terminations, new-country implementation, and vendor management across PEO-supported markets. • Act as the regional authority on employment compliance across direct and PEO markets, including UK Right to Work, UK and German contract and employment-law requirements, and country-specific PEO frameworks; ensure local legal review where required. • Serve as the regional execution layer for centrally-owned systems (such as Workday), validating data against source documents and ensuring global processes function correctly in local practice. • Serve as regional liaison to Finance on budgets, vendor contracts, expense management, and reporting, maintaining strong internal controls and documentation. • Identify repetitive regional processes and improve them through better workflow and automation where appropriate, reducing cross-time-zone friction

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