HRBP EMEA

About the Team

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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,…