Senior People Partner-Technology & Product

Summary

Join M-KOPA, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior People Partner – Technology & Product. You will support Product, Engineering, and Tech functions, partnering with senior leaders to design and implement people strategies. Your responsibilities include attracting, developing, and retaining top technical talent, driving team effectiveness, using people analytics, supporting organizational design and change, and embedding a culture of innovation and inclusion. This role requires senior HR experience in tech, strategic and operational range, remote and global savvy, client advisory and analytics skills, and strong business acumen. You will work in a remote-first environment with teams across multiple regions. M-KOPA offers a flexible work environment and the opportunity to make a significant impact.

Requirements

• Senior HR Experience in Tech: You’ve built relationships and partnered closely to add measurable value with technical orgs (Engineering, Product, Data) and remote-first teams, understanding how they operate—from sprints to systems to structure
• Strategic and Operational Range: You're equally comfortable designing long-term org strategies and rolling up your sleeves to get things done at the team level
• Remote & Global Savvy: You know how to support cross-cultural teams from Africa to Europe & UK, navigating complexity with empathy, adaptability, and clarity
• Client Advisory & Analytics: You adapt to different stakeholder needs (eg leadership org plans, manager trainings, employee performance), leveraging data, influence, and updating process / policy to enhance long-term org effectiveness
• Strong Business Acumen: You can translate between people priorities and business outcomes—advising leaders on trade-offs, risks, and scalable solutions

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partner to Tech Leaders: Be a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Data leaders and people managers—aligning strategies to roadmap execution and team evolution to meet start-up, scale-up & Unicorn talent where they are at
• Scale Talent for Tech Growth: Build and implement cross-cultural programs to attract, develop, and retain top technical talent to drive performance excellence
• Drive Agile & Distributed Team Effectiveness: Scale and optimize performance, engagement, and team dynamics in a fast-paced, asynchronous work environment
• Use People Analytics to Inform Action: Partner with CoEs and clients to analyze data on topics like engagement, DEI, and retention—and turn insights into action
• Support Org Design & Change: Lead initiatives around team transformations, employee relations cases, and workforce planning, remote engagement, and more
• Embed a Culture of Innovation & Inclusion: Reinforce M-KOPA’s values in every touchpoint—from performance and development to feedback loops and rituals

Benefits

• Work from anywhere (ideally in or near the UK – hybrid for Greater London) while collaborating across time zones with top talent globally
• Shape the people agenda in a high-growth environment with significant ownership, a seat at the table, and the ability to build long-term impact
• Influence the future of work and new market and functional plans for a company driving social, environmental, and economic change at scale
• At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training
• We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility