People Partnering Lead

At Beam, you get to do work that matters for the world. We’re solving the world's toughest social problems with an incredible team, tech and AI. And we’re growing fast 🚀

It’s not easy. Nothing worth doing ever is.

Join a company at the forefront of social impact, driving first-of-its-kind positive change. You’ll be part of a high-performance culture where you'll make a huge impact, rapidly progress your career, and truly enjoy your work.

From top-tier coaching and personal development budgets to competitive salaries, we take care of everyone who works at Beam.

We’ve already seen incredible growth from our Beam Notes product, helping frontline workers save over 8 hours of admin per week. From social workers and NHS clinicians to mental health practitioners and safeguarding specialists, nearly 100,000 frontline workers across the UK, US and Australia are now using Beam Notes regularly to deliver faster, more human-centred support.

About the role

You'll shape how the People function partners with the business at Beam. Working closely

with leaders, you’ll embed performance across the lifecycle; you'll coach managers

through performance, organisational design, and complex people decisions; build manager

capability; and use people insights to strengthen organisational health. You'll also own

employee relations across the business, ensuring our people practices remain consistent,

pragmatic and scalable as Beam grows.

What you'll do

Business partnering

- Act as the strategic Partner, serving as the embedded People representative.
- Coach managers on team effectiveness and organisational change.
- Use engagement, performance and attrition data to identify risks and opportunities across

Beam.

- Build trusted relationships with leaders and managers, challenging and influencing where

needed.

Manager capability & performance

- Embedding performance across the lifecycle.
- Coach managers in addressing underperformance through probation, performance and

capability conversations.

- Escalate cases into formal ER where required, while feeding recurring themes back to the

Operations Lead to improve underlying processes.

- Work to embed key initiatives across employees.

Employee relations

- Own complex employee relations casework across the business, including investigations,

grievances, disciplinaries and capability processes.

- Coach managers through difficult conversations and ensure issues are managed

consistently and fairly.

- Partner with the Associate Director on high-risk or legally complex matters.
- Maintain robust case documentation and identify themes that require organisational

action.

- Support managers through complex absence cases while ensuring compliance across

jurisdictions.

Engagement

- Translate feedback & results into meaningful action plans.
- Hold leaders accountable for delivering improvements within their teams.
- Partner with the People Associate on the delivery of engagement initiatives to drive

retention

Levelling & organisational design

- Embed Beam’s levelling framework across individual contributor and management career

paths.

- Partner with hiring managers to level new and evolving roles before recruitment.
- Support promotion and organisational design discussions through a levelling lens,

working alongside the Associate Director on compensation decisions.

Functional ownership

- Be the day-to-day advisor for managers across the business on people matters.
- Identify trends across engagement, ER, performance and absence, escalating risks and

recommending improvements.

- Contribute to the ongoing development of Beam's People strategy and manager

capability.

About Beam

Our team of 200+ embraces a hybrid working approach, enjoying 2-3 days of vibrant collaboration in our beautiful Shoreditch co-working space, fully equipped with rooftop views, an onsite barista and kitted out gym.

We’ve picked up an armful of awards for our work, including one from our former Queen. We've also been named by WIRED as one of London's 10 hottest startups and by LinkedIn as a Top 15 UK Startup . Meanwhile, we've been covered in the media literally thousands of times, including the likes of The FT, BBC, TechCrunch, Forbes and The Guardian .

We’re also proud to be backed by some of the world's leading tech investors and entrepreneurs, including the founders of Booking.com , Calm, Shazam and Dropbox.

Start your journey to a more impactful career today. We're excited to hear from you.

Reasonable adjustments:

Beam is committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and supportive work environment for all employees. This policy extends to our hiring practices.

We recognise that some candidates may need additional support during their hiring process to give them the best chance of being a success. To ensure that all candidates have an equitable opportunity during their process, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments where required.

If you require a reasonable adjustment to be made during your process, please let your Talent Partner know. We encourage you to share this information, but there is no obligation to do so.

Please be reassured that any reasonable adjustment requests will not be taken into account when making a decision about your candidacy.