Enablement Partner

Orbital is hiring an experienced and forward‑thinking People Enablement Partner to design, drive, and deliver how we support and retain world‑class talent s is a mid‑to‑senior role with both strategic and hands‑on ownership to design People Products, influence direction, and shape how our managers and teams operate at scale.

You’ll be one of the first hires in our US People function. You’ll report initially to our People Director (based in London), and then to our New York‑based VP of People once that role is in place later in our US expansion. As a foundational US People team hire, you’ll have real influence over how this function (and your role within it) evolves.

We’re building a modern People team leaning into an 'Employee Experience as a Product' methodology: designing scalable solutions that support individual growth and business success, not just reactive fixes.

Our operating model is built on three main layers:
Partner, Product and Platform.

Partner: The layer closest to the people leading teams. It works closely with them, understands the work they do, and helps them lead with confidence and consistency.

Product: The layer that shapes how the organisation works. It designs the frameworks and experiences people use, and improves them as the company grows.

Platform: The operating layer the whole function runs on. It keeps the systems and data underneath effective, integrated, automated and built to scale.

These aren’t separate sub‑teams or job titles; they describe the type of work involved, and act as a flywheel, each layer feeding the other two.

This role sits equally across Partner and Product layers. In practice, this means that you’ll partner with managers to surface insights, then own the design and implementation of people solutions from start to finish. Your Partnering focus will primarily be our go‑to‑market teams, which are mostly US‑based with some overlap into the UK. Product layer, on the other hand, is designed to work company‑wide: you’ll partner closely with our UK‑based People Enablement Partner and People Director so what we build lands consistently across teams and regions.

• Partner with managers across the business to diagnose team challenges, surfacing deep insights that will shape our People Product roadmap.

• Enable managers to confidently handle performance, conduct, and team issues through effective coaching, guidance, and accessible resources.

• Apply product management principles
  , such as user research, problem framing, roadmap prioritization, MVP testing and tracking outcomes, when designing new People processes.

• Design and implement scalable People Products that support employees at all stages, create measurable business outcomes, and scale effectively with the business.

• Own the People Product lifecycle end‑to‑end
  : from identifying the foundational problem and designing the solution, through to successful rollout and adoption.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on US employment matters
  , including multi‑state compliance, FMLA administration, leaves of absence, and day‑to‑day employee relations.

• Identify patterns that signal where new solutions are needed and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Find ways to measure outcomes that highlight impact and identify where we still need to improve.

• Iterate on what you build based on real‑world feedback; nothing is set and forget.

Our initial 2026 People team priorities give a flavor of the types of challenges you’ll help tackle:

• Manager capability: Equipping managers with frameworks and guidance to handle performance, conduct, and team issues at first line.

• Performance enablement: Implementing clear expectations and feedback cycles that scale with team growth.

• US People foundations: Helping build out the US‑specific pieces of our People stack, from multi‑state compliance to leave administration and benefits enablement.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg. There are still foundational layers to build and new challenges that you will play a central role in identifying and prioritising.

• You have relevant experience in People…