legora - People Business Partner
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Requirements
• You bring 4+ years of experience in HRBP, Employee Relations, or labour law, ideally in a fast-paced and/or high-growth environment. You have supported leaders in high-performance settings where expectations are clear and decisions carry weight. • Your primary scope will be the UK with exposure to additional European markets. You are comfortable navigating employment law across jurisdictions and partnering with Legal where required. • You have hands-on experience managing complex and sensitive matters independently, including performance processes, investigations, terminations, and restructurings. Experience supporting organizational changes, business integrations, or structural shifts is highly valued. • You operate in a structured and documentation-driven way and understand that precision protects both people and the company. You remain calm under pressure, make sound judgment calls in ambiguous situations, and are comfortable challenging senior stakeholders when standards or accountability slip. • You are motivated by building disciplined performance cultures and ensuring governance maturity keeps pace with growth.
Responsibilities
• As we scale across markets, complexity increases. Expectations rise, decisions carry more weight, and the margin for error narrows. With that comes a different kind of responsibility — not just to move fast, but to move with discipline. • As our People Business Partner, you will operate as a senior partner to leadership — safeguarding performance standards, accountability, and employment governance at Legora. You are not just the escalation point when things get difficult. You step in early to ensure expectations are clear, decisions are consistent, and leadership accountability stays strong as we grow. • This role is intentionally scoped around Risk & Governance — separate from Talent Acceleration — to ensure that scale does not compromise fairness or decision quality. You combine strong business judgment with legal precision, and in moments of ambiguity or difficulty, you bring clarity, structure, and composure. • Own complex employee relations matters end-to-end — PIPs, investigations, disciplinary processes, terminations, and sensitive absence cases — ensuring outcomes are fair, consistent, and defensible. • Partner with leaders on performance standards, calibration, and organisational decisions — safeguarding consistency, accountability, and documentation quality across teams. • Advise leadership through restructurings and structural shifts, ensuring legal compliance, risk mitigation, and disciplined execution. • Intervene early on performance and conduct concerns — strengthening manager capability and resolving issues before formal escalation becomes necessary. • Advise on labour law and employment risk across jurisdictions, enabling commercially sound and compliant decision-making at pace. • Design and strengthen scalable ER and governance processes — documentation standards, structural safeguards, and operating cadences that allow us to move fast without compromising integrity. • Collaborate closely with the People Enablement Partner to ensure clean handovers across the employment lifecycle and alignment between performance frameworks and formal ER processes. • Proactively identify systemic risks and recurring themes, and recommend structural improvements where clarity, consistency, or accountability can be strengthened.
Benefits
• This is a high-trust role with real impact on how Legora manages risk, fairness, and accountability as we scale. You will work closely with founders and senior leadership on complex people matters and play a central role in strengthening the operational backbone of the company. • You will join at a stage where your expertise materially shapes how we handle performance, discipline, and compliance going forward. Alongside that comes a competitive salary, a transparent and highly competitive equity package, and a centrally located London office designed for focused work and close collaboration. • Most importantly, you will help ensure that as we build a high-performance company, we do so with discipline, consistency, and integrity.
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