# HR Manager, EMEA R&D

**Company**: Starburst
**Location**: Warsaw
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for an HR Manager to be a local culture and talent partner to our EMEA R&D organization. This is a hands-on, locally-embedded role where you’ll build trust with leaders and engineers face-to-face, own the full hire-to-retain lifecycle for the region, provide backup support for ongoing operations in region, and bring a local lens to programs designed centrally.

As an HR Manager, EMEA R&D at Starburst you will drive:

**Culture & Team Health**

- Maintain an active, visible presence in the Warsaw office (minimum 3 days/week) and attend key meetings in person, not remotely.

- Run regular 1:1s with first-line managers to stay close to team health and emerging feedback themes.

- Conduct exit interviews for EMEA & APJ Engineering, analyzing turnover trends to partner with leaders on action plans.

- Turn Feedback Survey results and other cultural indicators into specific, tracked action items for EMEA Engineering.

- Surface emerging issues to key leadership and maintain a consistent pulse on employee sentiment.

**Talent & Hiring**

- Design and run a local hiring and onboarding program tailored to the region, complementary to our global onboarding practices.

- Own sourcing and screening for regional engineering roles, building and maintaining a local candidate pipeline.

- Design the interview loop in partnership with the Hiring Manager and set clear expectations for interviewer goals and responsibilities.

- Manage new hire logistics from start to finish: offers, day 1 readiness, and compliance.

- Build local market presence and influence to strengthen our employer brand in the region.

- Champion internal mobility opportunities for engineers across the region, while ensuring we maintain fairness and equity across the process.

**Additional Scope** While we build out longer-term operational coverage, this role will also provide secondary support across the following areas to ensure continuity and no gaps in coverage:

**Office Management**

- Serve as a secondary point of contact for day-to-day Warsaw office operations, providing coverage during absences, peak periods, or as workload requires.

- Partner closely with the current Office Management & People Operations Specialist to stay looped in on ongoing priorities and vendor/facilities matters. Ensure feedback is mapped into local cultural connection points to keep teammates engaged.

**EMEA Operations Support**

- Provide backup support for EMEA People Ops activities including employee lifecycle transactions, stepping in during PTO, surge periods, or as capacity needs dictate.

- Work alongside the current Office Management & People Operations Specialist to maintain consistent employee experience.

**Requirements**

- 3-5 years of HR experience; prior experience partnering with an Engineering or technical organization is a plus but not required

- Fluency in English and Polish

- Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable building trust and driving alignment with cross-functional partners

- A track record of turning employee feedback and insight into action items that visibly move the needle on team culture

- Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events.

## Skills

### Required
- HR experience
- stakeholder management
- employee feedback analysis
- English fluency
- Polish fluency

### Nice to have
- prior experience partnering with an Engineering or technical organization

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