About Us
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.
We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.
Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.
At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.
Visit www.perk.com to learn more.
We’re scaling fast across the US and Europe, and our global team of almost 2000 colleagues continues to grow, and fast! As we expand our reach, launch new products and enter new markets, we need to stay sharp, scalable and human. That’s where you come in.
We are seeking a highly capable People Partner to join our high-performing team for a 1-year fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. This role is critical, partnering with leaders to deliver people strategies that drive performance, engagement, and scalable growth. This person will also be partnering with tech department leaders. As a People Partner, you’ll work closely with senior managers and functional leaders to translate company priorities into actionable people plans. You’ll bring clarity, commerciality, and care to everything you do, enabling leaders to make confident decisions and empowering teams to thrive.
Due to the recent acquisition and ongoing integration of two organisations alongside our huge growth ambitions, this role is for someone who thrives in fast paced, scaling environments and knows how to bring clarity, commerciality, and dedication to employee experience in fast-scaling teams.
You’ll be responsible for implementing core people processes, enabling change initiatives, and ensuring we’re building a culture that reflects our values as we scale during this important period.
If you thrive in fast-paced, high-impact environments, know how to balance tactical delivery with strategic thinking, and want to make a meaningful impact on people and performance over a fixed term, we’d love to meet you.
What You’ll Do
Partner with Leaders to Deliver People Plans
Work with Senior Leaders and Managers across the tech department to co-create people priorities with business goals.
Provide insight, challenge, and recommendations on people topics across the full employee lifecycle including org design, high performance culture, and leading change.
Act as a trusted adviser and coach, ensuring leaders have the mindset, capability, and confidence to lead their teams effectively.
Implement and manage key people processes (e.g. performance reviews, engagement surveys, talent planning) in your functions, ensuring quality and consistency.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do here at Perk. You’ll shape the employee experience across the teams you partner, and beyond. Help us listen carefully, act on feedback and build a culture that people want to be part of.
Drive Performance and Engagement
Support leaders to embed the performance process, ensuring objectives, feedback, and development conversations drive high performance.
Use a range of data insights including People Data, Engagement Results, performance, and external sources to proactively partner on action planning, and monitor progress against agreed initiatives.
Champion our values and ensure they are embedded into ways of working.
Use people's data to diagnose challenges, track progress, and recommend improvements.
Lead Change at a Functional Level
Co-deliver change management activities with Senior Leaders and Managers, ensuring buy-in, clear communication, leader enablement, and smooth implementation.
Lead integration projects, restructures, or shifts in operating models, working closely with senior People Partners and other stakeholders.
You’ll ensure that through change and beyond, our colleagues are valued, and stay connected to our mission.
Enable Leadership and Manager Capability
Coach and guide Leaders and Managers on people topics, from performance and development to team dynamics and organisational change.
Identify capability gaps and partner with the relevant People Team functions to address them, including through the creation and delivery of learning content.
You’ll bring insight, challenge and clarity to business decisions, team structures and leadership plans. With huge growth plans comes ambiguity and a need to adapt our approach regularly; you’ll be comfortable navigating unknowns, and bring confidence in others through ambiguity.
What Success Looks Like
Leaders in your functions feel equipped and confident to lead their teams through growth and change, and to drive performance, engagement and team development.
Core people processes are delivered with consistency, quality, and impact.
People's insights such as engagement, churn, and absence remain healthy, and engagement and performance metrics in your functions improve, with clear links to actions you’ve partnered on.
Change initiatives in your remit are implemented smoothly, with positive feedback from leaders and teams.
Successful project delivery across your business function and the People Team
What You’ll Bring
Experience in a People Partner role partnering in fast-growing tech companies
A track record of partnering and influencing senior leaders across tech functions (Engineering, Product and/or Design)
Strong understanding of organisational design, performance management, leadership development and change management
A coaching mindset and excellent communication skills. You know when to challenge and when to support
A commercial approach to people work, with a focus on impact, data and action and balancing employee experience
Experience developing and enabling leaders
Comfort operating across regions and time zones, with experience partnering international teams
A bias for clarity, consistency and care in everything you do
What We Offer
Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk
Rest and recharge with 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
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