HRBP EMEA

Open AI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI company is seeking a seasoned HR Business Partner to support teams across the EMEA region. The ideal candidate will have 3–5 years of HR experience, focusing on operational execution, employee relations, and performance management. They will partner closely with managers to ensure a consistent employee experience while operating in a hybrid model. The role offers the opportunity to influence people practices and drive organizational health. Applications for this full-time position are encouraged from candidates in Dublin or London.

Benefits

Relocation support

Adjustable desks

Stocked kitchens

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of HR experience with managers in high-growth environments.
• Experience as a Senior HR generalist or HR Business Partner.
• High integrity and discretion while handling sensitive issues.

Responsibilities

• Partner with managers for performance management cycles.
• Provide guidance on team health and employee relations.
• Implement and maintain performance and retention initiatives.
• Triage and resolve employee relations issues effectively.

Skills

Employee relations

Coaching conversations

Performance management

Problem-solving

Judgment under pressure

Job description

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 in employee relations, immigration, compensation and benefits, learning and development, project management, and more.

About the Role

We’re seeking a seasoned HR Business Partner to support our growing teams across the EMEA region. This role serves as a trusted partner to regional leaders, combining strong operational execution with thoughtful business judgment to support performance, organizational health, and disciplined people practices at scale.

This role partners closely with the HRBP Lead, who owns regional org design and workforce planning. You will operate as the primary regional execution partner — translating strategic direction into consistent delivery, elevating manager capability, and proactively surfacing people risks and themes.

Your Responsibilities

• Drive strong day-to-day HR execution: Partner with managers to support performance management cycles, feedback conversations, 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, and manager enablement.
• Support and operationalize People programs: Help implement and maintain performance, engagement, and retention initiatives — ensuring processes are clear, scalable, and well-executed.
• Triage and resolve employee relations issues: Diagnose issues early, recommend appropriate actions, and partner with relevant COEs when needed.
• Maintain operational rigor: Track themes, ensure documentation is complete, and bring structure to recurring people processes.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with fellow HRBPs and COEs to ensure a consistent and high-quality employee experience across EMEA.
• Strong HR foundation: 3–5 years of total HR experience, including meaningful experience partnering directly with managers in fast-paced or high-growth environments as a Senior HR generalist or HR Business Partner.
• Execution-oriented partner: Comfortable operating in the day-to-day details while maintaining sound judgment and strong follow-through.
• Manager coach: Able to guide frontline managers through performance conversations and early employee relations issues with clarity and confidence.
• Operationally strong: Brings structure, organization, and discipline to people processes.
• Good judgment under pressure: Balances empathy with accountability and handles sensitive matters with discretion.
• High integrity: Trusted, fair, and principled. This keeps the role important and high-impact — but clearly execution-heavy and manager-focused, not strategy-owning.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our Dublin or London office, and we aren’t considering applications to work remotely at this time.

When applying, let us know which location(s) work for you.

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 set up for focus and connection—with adjustable desks, phone booths, conference rooms, stocked kitchens, and cozy spots to unwind or catch up with teammates.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.

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