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part-timeHR Business Partner, EMEA
Openai · Paris, France
About the Team OpenAI’s People team aims to hire, engage, and retain world-class talent to safely build and deploy universally beneficial Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The HR team, a vital subset of the People team, supports a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and business professionals, with expertise spanning employee relations, immigration, compensation and benefits, learning and development, project management, and more. About the Role We’re seeking an HR Business Partner to support our growing teams across EMEA, with a particular focus on France. This role will help build scalable, locally compliant people practices and support strong employee relations as we grow. You will partner closely with regional People leadership, Legal, Employee Relations, and other People COEs to strengthen our approach to employee relations and employee representation in France. This will include building practical governance, manager practices, and operating processes that are compliant and sustainable as we scale. Beyond France, this role will serve as a trusted HR partner to managers and teams across EMEA. You will combine strong operational execution with thoughtful business judgment to support performance, organizational health, employee relations, and disciplined people practices at scale. This role reports into the International HRBP Lead, who owns regional organizational design and workforce planning. You will operate as a key regional execution partner to them, translating strategic direction into consistent delivery, elevating manager capability, and proactively surfacing people risks and themes. If you're joining us in person, we offer relocation support and follow a hybrid schedule: three days a week in the office, with the option to work from home on Thursdays and Fridays. Our offices are designed for focus and connection, with spaces for both individual work and collaboration. Your Responsibilities 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. We’re Seeking 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 stakeholde
| Role | HR Business Partner, EMEA |
|---|---|
| Company | Openai |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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