Senior People Partner

We are Vitesse - the treasury and payment partner of choice for insurance. Your next adventure awaits!

Join the team who are redefining the payments space.

At Vitesse, we're more than just a payments platform - we're the trusted financial infrastructure connecting the global insurance ecosystem. Tailor-made for insurers, brokers, MGAs, and TPAs, our unified platform optimises claims funds, enables real-time global payments, and delivers full financial control. Our impact is real: over $20 billion in payments across 200+ countries, hundreds of millions returned to insurers' balance sheets, and counting.

We're licensed in the UK (FCA), Europe (DNB), and New York (NYDFS), with over 260 amazing colleagues worldwide. With $93 million recently raised in Series C funding from KKR, our journey is just beginning, and our ambitions are sky-high.

Headquartered in the heart of London and expanding across Europe and the US, Vitesse is where your ideas power tomorrow's insurance solutions. Are you ready to make a difference? You're in the right place.

As Senior People Partner supporting Product Engineering and Operations at Vitesse, you will operate as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, shaping and delivering a high-impact People strategy that drives performance, engagement, and scalable growth.

This role goes beyond operational HR support you will influence leadership capability, organisational design, talent strategy, and culture in a fast-moving fintech environment. You will balance commercial acumen with people expertise to ensure our teams can perform at their best while building a sustainable, inclusive and high-performing culture.

• Partner with senior leaders to translate business objectives into actionable People strategies.

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders, driving accountability and high performance.

• Drive and take ownership of the workforce planning and support the Talent Acquisition team to shape hiring plans aligned to business growth and skills needs.

• You will play an active role in supporting recruitment through coaching hiring managers to elevate hiring standards and ensure consistent, high-quality selection processes.

• Proactively identify capability gaps and future talent risks within Product Engineering and Operations.

• Lead performance management cycles, ensuring robust goal setting, feedback, calibration, and development planning is in operation and meeting our standards.

• Enable managers to confidently manage both high and low performance.

• Embed a culture of continuous feedback, accountability, and growth.

• Diagnose development needs across teams and implement targeted learning initiatives.

• Coach managers to strengthen leadership capability, employee engagement, and team effectiveness.

• Support succession planning and internal mobility strategies.

• Serve as a trusted advisor and manager all employee relations matters within your functions and support others when and where appropriate.

• Provide balanced, commercially sound guidance that mitigates risk while maintaining trust.

• Ensure People practices align with employment law and regulatory requirements whilst staying in line with our people centric approach.

• Embed inclusive leadership practices across Product Engineering and Operations.

• Partner with leaders to drive equitable talent outcomes across hiring, performance, and progression.

• Use data insights to identify and address systemic gaps.

• Translate engagement data into actionable insights and support with driving measurable improvements.

• Lead retention strategies for critical talent populations.

• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and cultural alignment.

• Leverage People data to inform decision-making and influence leadership conversations.

• Track and report on key metrics including attrition, performance distribution, hiring effectiveness, and engagement trends.

• Use insights to proactively identify organisational risks and opportunities.

• Lead the People aspects of organisational change, including restructures, team evolution, and process transformation.

• Ensure thoughtful communication, impact assessment, and change adoption strategies.

• Significant experience as a Senior HR Business Partner or…