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Senior HR Operations Lead

Remote, role Europe·Full-time·Added 3 days ago (last checked 26 Oct)

Lokalise

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Our summary

Work mode: Remote (role Europe)
Contract: Full-time
Experience: Senior level
Benefits: Private health insurance

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Per the ad: “you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain.”
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Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

Experience operating as a senior individual contributor with full ownership of an HR operations domain
Experience partnering with a mature HRBP and stakeholder ecosystem
Experience making HR operational decisions based on business impact and commercial context
Experience using people data to inform decisions and operational solutions design
Demonstrated passion for building business first HR infrastructure - not simply maintaining existing processes or policy policing
Experience in HR operations at senior level in a distributed technology or SaaS environment
Experience managing EOR relationships and multi-country employment complexity
Experience owning vendor relationships across HRIS, payroll, and benefits

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

💰 Competitive salary and employee stock options.
🌍 Fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
🏢 Co-working budget for those days you want a change from your home office.
🌴 Flexible vacation policy to recharge when you need to.
🖥️ Home office setup budget: monitor, desk, ergonomics, whatever helps you do your best work.
📚 Learning & development budget to grow your skills and career.
🏥 Health insurance to keep you covered.
🧘 Wellness allowance to support your mental and physical well-being.
🤝 Great culture: remote but close-knit, daily lived values, constant push for bigger, better, winning.

The role

Lokalise's People team is responsible for building and sustaining the high-performance, distributed workforce that our business depends on. Our HRBPs own talent strategy across their business areas. This role owns the operational infrastructure that makes that strategy real.

As Senior HR Operations Lead, you will be responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving the systems, processes, and ecosystem relationships that determine the quality of the employee experience and, ultimately, the performance of our people. This role reports to the CHRO.

What you'll do

What You Will Do

Build and own the HR operating model that enables Lokalise's talent strategy - designing the systems, processes, and experiences that drive a high-performance organization
Design the HR experiences - onboarding, performance, development, exits - that continuously increase the quality of talent at Lokalise
Turn people data into operational intelligence that gives HRBPs and business leaders what they need to make proactive, high-quality talent decisions
Design and own the HR calendar as a deliberate series of interventions that drive performance, compensation, and development outcomes across the business
Build and own the HR technology and vendor ecosystem - including EOR partnerships across multiple countries - to scale with Lokalise's growth
Integrate compliance across a distributed, multi-country workforce in a way that creates no friction for the business

How you'll work

While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, or Spain.

This is a full-time, remote position.
Please note that we do not engage on a B2B or contractor basis. We do not partner with search firms.

About Lokalise

Lokalise is a leading SaaS platform for software localization and translation management. The company provides a cloud-based solution that helps businesses automate and streamline their translation workflows, integrating with various development tools to manage multilingual content efficiently. Founded in 2017, Lokalise has grown rapidly to serve thousands of customers worldwide, establishing itself as a key player in the localization technology space.

Lokalise has a significant presence in Spain, with a dedicated team and office in Madrid. The company is known for its international and diverse workforce, with employees from over 40 countries, making it an attractive destination for international professionals. They offer a modern, flexible work culture with remote work options, which is particularly appealing to those looking to relocate to Spain.

Founded: 2017
Employees: 100–500
Headquarters: Austin, USA
In Spain: Madrid

Good to know if you are moving

Lokalise has a strong remote-first culture, allowing employees to work from anywhere, which is ideal for international professionals.
The company's workforce is highly international, with employees from over 30 countries, making it a welcoming environment for expats.
The Madrid office is a key hub for the company's Spanish-speaking market and operations.
Lokalise offers a modern tech stack and product-led growth approach, providing valuable experience for product managers and engineers.
The company provides relocation support and a comprehensive benefits package for international hires.

In their own words

About the company & team

At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Our AI-powered localization platform helps companies manage both software and marketing content from a single, unified environment - ensuring every team speaks with one voice across every language and channel.

By automating workflows, integrating with over 60 tools, and centralizing translation memory and terminology, Lokalise enables product, engineering, and marketing teams to collaborate without friction and launch globally up to 10× faster and at 80% lower cost.

Trusted by thousands of businesses across more than 100 countries, Lokalise empowers millions of people worldwide to use digital services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform fits seamlessly into your design, development, and content workflows, helping you scale with consistency and control.

Additional information

We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.

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