openai - HR Business Partner, EMEA

• Lead employee-representative work in France: Partner with Legal, Employee Relations, People Operations, and local stakeholders to own and deliver CSE-related processes, including elections, consultations, employee communications, documentation, governance, and effective ongoing operating rhythms. • Build sustainable employee relations processes: Help establish clear processes for engaging with employee representatives, preparing for required information and consultation processes, maintaining appropriate documentation, and coordinating inputs from relevant business and People stakeholders. • Support managers operating in the French employee relations environment: Equip managers and leaders with practical guidance on working effectively within French employment and employee-representation frameworks, escalating complex matters to Legal or specialist teams as appropriate. • Drive strong day-to-day HR execution: Partner with managers across EMEA to support performance management cycles, feedback conversations, organizational changes, and employee relations matters with consistency and care. • Be the go-to partner for frontline managers: Provide practical, timely guidance on team health, coaching conversations, policy interpretation, performance management, and manager enablement. • Support and operationalize People programs: Help implement and maintain performance, engagement, retention, and employee experience initiatives, ensuring processes are clear, scalable, and well executed across different EMEA jurisdictions. • Triage and resolve employee relations issues: Identify issues early, assess risk, recommend appropriate actions, and partner with Employee Relations, Legal, and other COEs on complex or sensitive matters. • Maintain operational rigor: Track employee relations themes, maintain complete and accurate documentation, coordinate recurring processes, and ensure actions and commitments are followed through. • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with HRBPs, Legal, Employee Relations, People Operations, Total Rewards, and other COEs to provide a consistent and high-quality employee experience across EMEA. • Strong HR foundation: Approximately 8+ years of HR experience, including meaningful experience partnering directly with managers in fast-paced, high-growth, or complex international environments as a Senior HR Generalist or HR Business Partner. • French employee relations experience: Practical experience working with French employment practices and employee representative bodies. Direct experience establishing, supporting, or working closely with a CSE, works council, or comparable employee representative structure is highly valued. • Experience with employee representative processes: Familiarity with employee elections, consultation processes, employee representative communications, and the governance and documentation associated with formal employee representation. • Execution-oriented partnership: Comfortable owning detailed, time-sensitive workstreams and coordinating across multiple stakeholders while maintaining sound judgment and strong follow-through. • Strong project management: Able to take complex, multi-stage employee-representative processes and translate them into clear milestones, owners, dependencies, communications, and operating processes. • Manager coaching capability: Able to guide managers through performance conversations, organizational changes, and employee relations issues with clarity and confidence. • Operational strength: Brings structure, organization, and discipline to people processes and can build repeatable practices as the organization scales. • Good judgment under pressure: Balances empathy, employee experience, business needs, and appropriate risk management while handling sensitive matters with discretion. • High integrity: Trusted, fair, principled, and comfortable operating in an environment where confidentiality and sound judgment are essential. • Language capability: Professional fluency in French and English is strongly preferred given the role’s responsibility for supporting employee relations and representative processes in France.