# Regional People Lead, EMEA **Company**: Duolingo **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £124,395-£186,592 GBP **Category**: HR **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8726229002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_418d37d3-23a ## Description Our mission at Duolingo is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. We're looking for a Regional People Lead to serve as both a senior People Business Partner and the operational owner for our growing EMEA presence. **Strategic Partnership** - Serve as the senior People Partner to EMEA leaders, building deep business understanding and advising on org design, performance, team health, and growth. - Lead engagement, inclusion, and talent planning initiatives across the region, and drive talent density in partnership with TA. - Guide leaders and teams through organizational change, translating global OKRs and TMR programs into plans that fit regional context and surfacing gaps back to TMR. - Own complex employee relations and higher-risk people matters across the region, including investigations, grievances, performance and disciplinary processes, and settlement agreements, applying employment-law judgment and knowing when to bring in Legal or the central team. - Use people data and engagement insight to spot organizational health trends early and recommend action. **Regional Operations & Compliance** - Own regional People operations end to end, leading a People Operations Manager who delivers day-to-day execution across direct entities and PEO-supported markets, while staying close enough to the detail to catch compliance and payroll risk yourself. - Own the regional PEO/EOR relationship, including monthly payroll submissions across multiple calendars, employment changes, terminations, new-country implementation, and vendor management across PEO-supported markets. - Act as the regional authority on employment compliance across direct and PEO markets, including UK Right to Work, UK and German contract and employment-law requirements, and country-specific PEO frameworks; ensure local legal review where required. - Serve as the regional execution layer for centrally-owned systems, validating data against source documents and ensuring global processes function correctly in local practice. - Serve as regional liaison to Finance on budgets, vendor contracts, expense management, and reporting, maintaining strong internal controls and documentation. - Identify repetitive regional processes and improve them through better workflow and automation where appropriate, reducing cross-time-zone friction without compromising local compliance judgment. **Recruiting & Workplace Experience** - Partner with Talent Acquisition on regional hiring strategy, offer decisions, and locally relevant onboarding. - Partner with London workplace operations on facilities, safety, and vendor management, and lead regional events and programming. - Ensure a strong employee experience across hybrid and remote environments regionwide, providing a consistent point of contact through the employee lifecycle. **Global Representation** - Represent EMEA in global People forums and planning cycles, ensuring regional voice shapes global policy rather than just receiving it. - Bring clarity and consistent ownership to how global People processes land locally. **Requirements** - Experience in HR, People Business Partnering, or regional People operations, including work supporting multi-country teams across EMEA. - Hands-on experience managing employees through a PEO or EOR provider across multiple EMEA markets. - Strong knowledge of European employment practices, labor law, and compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK and Germany. - Demonstrated ability to move seamlessly between strategic advising and hands-on operational execution. - Experience scaling People operations and processes in a fast-growing, distributed environment. - Sound judgment owning complex employee relations and higher-risk people matters, grounded in employment law. - A collaborative partner to Finance on budgets, vendor management, and reporting. - Strong cross-cultural communication and the judgment to know when to escalate, when to decide, and when to bring the global team in. - Fluency across core People and HRIS systems, with the rigor to keep data accurate between global platforms and local source documents. ## Skills ### Required - HR - People Business Partnering - regional People operations - European employment practices - labor law - compliance - PEO/EOR - HRIS systems --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/duolingo/jobs/8726229002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)