{"id":1155646,"url":"https://alion.io/job/vitesse-senior-people-partner","title":"Senior People Partner","company":{"id":51413,"name":"Vitesse","domain":"vitesse.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/vitesse","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":80000,"max_usd":123000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":22},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T20:09:41Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T16:11:48Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"We are Vitesse - the treasury and payment partner of choice for insurance.\nYour next adventure awaits!\nJoin the team who are redefining the payments space.\nAbout Us\nAt Vitesse, we're more than just a payments platform - we're the trusted financial infrastructure connecting the global insurance ecosystem. Tailor-made for insurers, brokers, MGAs, and TPAs, our unified platform optimises claims funds, enables real-time global payments, and delivers full financial control. Our impact is real: over $20 billion in payments across 200+ countries, hundreds of millions returned to insurers’ balance sheets, and counting. We’re licensed in the UK (FCA), Europe (DNB), and New York (NYDFS), with over 260 amazing colleagues worldwide. With $93 million recently raised in Series C funding from KKR, our journey is just beginning, and our ambitions are sky-high.\nHeadquartered in the heart of London and expanding across Europe and the US, Vitesse is where your ideas power tomorrow’s insurance solutions. Are you ready to make a difference? You're in the right place.\nYOUR MISSION\nAs Senior People Partner supporting Product Engineering and Operations at Vitesse, you will operate as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, shaping and delivering a high-impact People strategy that drives performance, engagement, and scalable growth.\nThis role goes beyond operational HR support you will influence leadership capability, organisational design, talent strategy, and culture in a fast-moving fintech environment. You will balance commercial acumen with people expertise to ensure our teams can perform at their best while building a sustainable, inclusive and high-performing culture.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nStrategic People Partnership\nPartner with senior leaders to translate business objectives into actionable People strategies.\n\nAct as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, driving accountability and high performance.\n\nTalent Strategy & Workforce Planning\nDrive and take ownership of the workforce planning and support the Talent Acquisition team to shape hiring plans aligned to business growth and skills needs.\n\nYou will play an active role in supporting recruitment through coaching hiring managers to elevate hiring standards and ensure consistent, high-quality selection processes.\n\nProactively identify capability gaps and future talent risks within Product Engineering and Operations.\n\nPerformance & High-Performance Culture\nLead performance management cycles, ensuring robust goal setting, feedback, calibration, and development planning is in operation and meeting our standards.\n\nEnable managers to confidently manage both high and low performance.\n\nEmbed a culture of continuous feedback, accountability, and growth.\n\nLeadership & Capability Development\nDiagnose development needs across teams and implement targeted learning initiatives.\n\nCoach managers to strengthen leadership capability, employee engagement, and team effectiveness.\n\nSupport succession planning and internal mobility strategies.\n\nEmployee Relations & Risk Management\nServe as a trusted advisor and manager all employee relations matters within your functions and support others when and where appropriate.\n\nProvide balanced, commercially sound guidance that mitigates risk while maintaining trust.\n\nEnsure People practices align with employment law and regulatory requirements whilst staying in line with our people centric approach.\n\nDiversity, Equity & Inclusion\nEmbed inclusive leadership practices across Product Engineering and Operations.\n\nPartner with leaders to drive equitable talent outcomes across hiring, performance, and progression.\n\nUse data insights to identify and address systemic gaps.\n\nEngagement & Culture\nTranslate engagement data into actionable insights and support with driving measurable improvements.\n\nLead retention strategies for critical talent populations.\n\nStrengthen cross-functional collaboration and cultural alignment.\n\nPeople Analytics & Insight\nLeverage People data to inform decision-making and influence leadership conversations.\n\nTrack and report on key metrics including attrition, performance distribution, hiring effectiveness, and engagement trends.\n\nUse insights to proactively identify organisational risks and opportunities.\n\nChange & Transformation\nLead the People aspects of organisational change, including restructures, team evolution, and process transformation.\n\nEnsure thoughtful communication, impact assessment, and change adoption strategies.\n\nWHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED\nSignificant experience as a Senior HR Business Partner or Senior People Partner in a fast-paced, scaling environment ideally fintech or technology.\n\nDemonstrated experience partnering with Product, Engineering, or Technical teams.\n\nStrong commercial acumen and ability to link People strategy to business performance.\n\nDeep understanding of employment law, regulatory frameworks, and People best practices.\n\nProven capability managing complex employee relations and organisational change.\n\nA strong work ethic with high levels of ownership and accountability.\n\nThe confidence and credibility to operate independently, while also collaborating effectively as part of a wider People and leadership team.\n\nStrong coaching and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively.\n\nAnalytical mindset with the ability to translate People data into strategic insights.\n\nA genuine passion for HR and driving our business forward as well as passion for enabling Product and Technology teams to do their best work.\n\nWe understand that everyone has their own work rhythm and believe in a flexible working schedule - at Vitesse you’re expected to work 35 hours a week.\nOur Values - or what we call “Vitesse at Our Best”\nThe Vitesse values are a true reflection of what it takes to thrive in our business, so it’s important to us that any employee who joins our business is aligned with these 3 attributes\nConfident Humility \nWe believe the best ideas come from listening and learning. We leave ego at the door, ask for help when we need it, and celebrate collective success. When one of us wins, we all do.\nDriven to Succeed \nWe’re ambitious about the opportunity ahead and committed to achieving it together. We hold ourselves to high standards, take pride in what we deliver, and push for meaningful outcomes for our customers, our partners, and each other.\nTenacious Responsibility \nWe take ownership of our work, our decisions, and our results. We face challenges with resilience, learn from setbacks, and see things through to completion. Because doing the right thing matters.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer\nWe commit to creating an inclusive environment that enables everyone to perform at their best, where we recognise the rights of all individuals to mutual respect and where there is an unbiased acceptance of others. Our policies and practices aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly and with dignity and respect. 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