Lead People Partner

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As Lead People Partner, you will collaborate with the CPTO and their leadership team to build talent-dense organisations, plan ahead for the talent they need, and make sure Aiven's people strategy actually shows up in how the function runs. You're not just implementing what the People team designs. You help shape what it is, then make it land in your function in a way that works. You're also a senior voice on what the People function builds and prioritises across the company. Leaders treat you as a peer who challenges and supports them, not as someone who runs HR processes on their behalf. Exec advisory: Act as a strategic advisor to your C-suite and VP-level leaders. Shape how they build their organisations, manage and develop their top talent, and retain the people they can't afford to lose. People strategy for your functions: Co-create the people strategy for your functions with functional leadership. Understand the business well enough to know what's needed, and push back when the ask isn't the right answer. Talent density: Set the standard for how talent density is built and maintained in your functions, through 9-box, career frameworks, stay interviews, and succession planning. Keep an honest, current view of where the organisation is strong, where it's thin, and what needs to change. Manager accountability: Drive the shift to managers owning their people outcomes instead of leaning on HR, ensuring managers have the skills, tools, and expectation to handle it themselves. Total rewards, levelling, and DEI: Own total rewards alignment and levelling consistency across your functions. Champion diversity at senior leadership level, in how promotions, succession, and hiring decisions get made. Workforce planning: Think 6–12 months ahead with your functional leaders on headcount, capability, and team shape. Lead the headcount planning squads with the functional Guilds (TA and FP&A). AI-first behaviours: Sponsor AI-native career frameworks in your functions, and drive AI-first behaviours in how your functional leaders and their teams work. Collaborate with wider People team: When a people product needs to be built, company-wide or specific to your function, you’ll influence and collaborate with the wider people team, bring the functional insight, frame the problem, and stay involved as the work develops. Raising the team: Mentor and coach junior and mid level People Partners, and help the whole team produce better work, not just your own patch. Company-wide influence: Be a key voice in what the People function prioritises and builds across the business, bringing the perspective of the functions you support.

Vad vi erbjuder

• Participate in Aiven's equity plan.
• Balance work and life with our hybrid work policy.
• Choose the equipment you need to set yourself up for success.
• Use your Professional Development Plan budget for learning opportunities.
• Receive holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program.
• Ask about our Global Time Off Commitment (parental and sick leave, plus personal time).
• Enjoy country-specific benefits for our global team.