HR People Partner

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Cloudsmith is seeking an additional HR People Partner, providing proactive HR support to employees and managers across the business, building the policies and practices that give the business clarity and consistency, and owning key projects that shape the employee experience as we scale.

Cloudsmith is the world’s most powerful artifact management platform. Software organizations of all sizes rely on Cloudsmith to control and secure their software supply chains. Cloudsmith allows customers to manage curated private repositories that proxy public open-source software registries. Developers use these repositories as their trusted source for build artifacts. We support over 30 formats, including the most popular languages, package managers, operating systems, and AI and container protocols.

We’re aimed at the enterprise, with built-in comprehensive security and advanced features for policy enforcement, integrations, and observability. Customers consider Cloudsmith critical infrastructure, a central part of their software build chain.

Cloudsmith is built by developers, for developers. We treasure the developer experience. The Tao of Cloudsmith expresses the values we live by every day. This is a special company, and now is a great time to join us.

Reporting to the Director of HR, you'll act as the first point of contact for day-to-day people matters, working alongside our HR Administrator, who handles administrative support so you can focus on partnering-level work.

The Operations team, of which the HR function is a part, works in person at our HQ in Belfast at least one day per week to collaborate face-to-face with colleagues and the HR People Partner will need to be flexible in their approach to office attendance.

• Meeting with people managers regularly on team performance, new hire progress, and ad hoc issues; acting as the primary day-to-day HR contact for managers; advising on performance, conduct, conflict, and sensitive conversations; coaching managers through difficult conversations and team dynamics

• Administering maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave from notification through to return, and keeping HRIS and payroll records accurate throughout

• Coordinating onboarding alongside the HR Administrator to ensure a consistent new hire experience, delivering new hire inductions, and owning offboarding including exit interviews and actioning feedback

• Day-to-day management of employee benefits across NI, GB, RoI, and the US (pensions, private medical, life assurance, income protection, and more), leading the annual benefits review cycle, and supporting compensation benchmarking alongside Talent Acquisition

• Managing the L&D request and approval workflow, overseeing the Go1 platform at a programme level, and reporting on completions, spend, and impact

• Supporting the Director of HR in writing and maintaining HR policies across NI, GB, RoI, and US jurisdictions, owning the HR Notion workspace, and leading the annual policy review cycle

• Owning defined HR projects from scoping through delivery, including employee engagement surveys and the US employer portal (planned 2027), and driving continuous improvement of HR processes

• Tracking and reporting on absence, turnover, engaging, and probation outcomes; supporting statutory reporting including Equality Commission / Article 55 returns; maintaining BambooHR data integrity

You don't need to tick every box, but the following skills and experience will help you thrive in this role:

• 3-5+ years' experience in a…