Bilingual Regional People Partner, OpenTable
EMEA
Online restaurant reservation service
Job no longer available
Online restaurant reservation service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To bring together people and the restaurants they love in the moments that matter.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of progressive HR Generalist or Business Partnering experience within a multi-country or global matrix organization
- Demonstrated professional experience navigating HR practices, employment law, and compliance requirements in at least one of the following countries: Spain, Portugal, France or Italy
- Professional fluency in English and native/business fluency in at least one of the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian
- Proven track record of managing end-to-end employee relations matters, organizational change, and performance management initiatives
- Proficiency with modern enterprise HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday) and collaborative productivity tools (e.g., Google Workspace) for reporting and workforce analytics
Desirable
- Relevant professional HR certification (e.g., CIPD qualification or equivalent regional HR accreditation)
- Experience supporting cross-functional business units across broader EMEA territories (e.g., UK, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland)
- Demonstrated capability in coaching people managers on leadership, team development, and conflict resolution techniques
- Proven experience using data-driven approaches and HR analytics to solve strategic business challenges and optimize people processes
- Strong adaptability and problem-solving skills in a fast-paced, matrixed, and scaling business environment
What the job involves
- As a Regional People Partner for EMEA, you will drive strategic people initiatives and provide comprehensive HR advisory services across key European markets
- In this full-time permanent role, you will partner closely with regional business leaders and managers to align people strategies with organizational goals while navigating complex, multi-country employment landscapes
- By leveraging local expertise, data-driven insights, and a candidate-first mindset, you will champion a collaborative, inclusive culture and enhance the overall employee lifecycle across the region
- Partner with regional leaders and people managers to deliver strategic guidance on employee relations, organizational design, talent retention, and performance management across EMEA
- Ensure compliance with local employment legislation and regional labor standards, proactively updating policies and mitigating organizational risk in key European markets
- Drive regional execution of cyclical people programs, including engagement surveys, talent reviews, compensation planning, and performance management processes
- Collaborate with global People & Culture, HR Operations, and Payroll teams to deliver seamless, scalable HR services and cross-functional solutions
- Analyze HR data and key workforce metrics to deliver actionable recommendations that improve team effectiveness, manager capability, and business outcomes
- Manage complex employee relations cases, providing coaching, mediation, and conflict resolution to foster a high-performing, inclusive work environment
Salary benchmarks
Our take
OpenTable was one of the earliest innovators in the online reservation space, setting up shop in 1998 as a tool to enable restaurants to take bookings online. Rather than charging consumers for the service, OpenTable generates revenue via a monthly subscription and reservation fee from businesses.
Today, the platform is used by tens of thousands of restaurants around the world and seats over 1 billion diners per year. The company was acquired by Booking Holdings – the world's largest travel company – for $2.6 billion in 2014, and remains a subsidiary of the group to this day.
OpenTable is the dominant player in the restaurant reservation software category, with an impressive 45% market share, but does face increasing competition from platforms like Resy, Tock, TableAgent, and many more. Nonetheless, this market leader has garnered an impressive reputation, and there is nothing to say it won't hold on to the dominance it has earned into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2000
$36m
SERIES C
Jan 2000
$10m
SERIES B
Total funding: $48.2m
Company benefits
- Work from (almost) anywhere - wherever you do your best work
- Mental health and well-being - company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth, company-paid subscription to HeadSpace, and company-wide weeks off a year so the whole team can recharge
- Generous parental leave
- Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday
- Paid volunteer time
- Enriched learning and development opportunities - leadership development & access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Debby Soo
(CEO)After graduating from Stanford with a liberal arts major, Debby started their career in investment banking. Thereafter they worked in Google’s Strategic Partnerships Group and then spent a decade at KAYAK, eventually becoming CCO.
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