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Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Head of People Business Partners
Location: Paris, France
Employment Type: Permanent
Work Location Type: Hybrid
About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.
Your Mission
As Head of People Partners, you lead the People Partners function and through it, the quality of HR advisory delivered to our business units across all geographies. You are the primary interface between the HRBP team and the SVP People, the decision-maker on cross-perimeter and sensitive HR topics, and the person who ensures that every people decision is grounded in both business reality and consistent people principles.
You help translate business priorities into human capital strategies while ensuring your team of senior HRBPs is well-equipped, well-aligned, and operationally sharp. You maintain workforce cost discipline, and lead or oversee large-scale transformation projects when they arise.
Responsibilities
People Leadership & Cross-Functional Alignment
- Participate in the People Leadership team and contribute to collective decision-making on HR strategy
- Ensure alignment with the Head of Talent, Culture & Performance and Head of People Ops, Data & Systems, serve as the escalation point for any cross-perimeter topic requiring arbitration
Team Management & Capability Building
- Manage the HRBPs: objectives, development, performance reviews, 1:1s
- Identify and address capability gaps within the team; facilitates upskilling on thematic areas (C&B, talent, learning, AI-driven HR practices)
- Ensure project delivery roadmap of the team, providing structure, prioritization, and follow-through
- In time, may manage a perimeter directly, either temporarily (replacement) or permanently (organization need)
HR Policy Coherence & Governance
- Involved in designing all new or revised HR policies before deployment to the business, arbitrate cross-perimeter topics where HRBP alignment is required
- Supervise departures in terms of framework and financial impact
- Hold final decision authority on off-grid compensation and pay equity cases, in alignment with the Head of Talent
Restructuring & Transformation
- Lead or closely involved in large-scale restructuring projects (M&A, internationalisation, organizational redesign)
- Coordinate with the Labour Law specialist on social dialogue and legal risk exposure
- Ensure organizational design decisions are documented and consistent across projects
Workforce Cost & Headcount Management
- Accountable for staff plan materialisation across all perimeters: design, tracking, and delivery
- Serve as the direct interface with FP&A on headcount and personnel cost monitoring; ensure ongoing reporting reliability
Requirements
- Senior HR generalist with 10 to 15 years of experience
- Experience in driving performance management cycles, departures, and restructuring projects
- Experience working across geographies and in complex labor law contexts
- Financially literate with experience in headcount costs, FP&A interfaces, and staff plan tracking
- Strong command of French labor law
- Fluent in written and spoken English
Nice to Have
- Experience in systems thinking and building policies and frameworks that hold across cases
- Ability to influence senior leaders through rigor, relationships, and well-framed recommendations
- Strong management skills with a clear approach to team expectations, growth, and development
We Offer
- Hybrid work model: 2 days at the office
- 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
- 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
- Financial support for home office equipment
- Minimum 25 days holiday per year
- Local meal plan policy (Swile card)
- 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
- Relocation package and visa support
- Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
- Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility opportunities
- Employee Stock ownership plan
- Regular team building events
- 1 day off per year to test our product
About the Company
BlaBlaCar is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Hiring Process
- A 30-min video-call with our Talent Acquisition Manager to get to know you, understand your career expectations, and answer your questions
- A 60-min video-call with Frederic Dieulle, Senior VP People, to discuss the role in more depth
- A fully remote exercise to evaluate your hard skills, followed by a 90-min video-call with several people stakeholders
- A 45-min video-call with a business stakeholder for vision fit and rounding off the process
Usually, our hiring process lasts on average 20-25 days, offers usually come within 48 hours.