Human Resources Business Partner, GOAT
EMEA
€76-95k
Marketplace for authentic streetwear
Job no longer available
Marketplace for authentic streetwear
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
€76-95k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To bring the world’s greatest products together from the past, present and future, while providing a premier end-to-end customer experience with a point of view on culture and style.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in a human resources business partnership capacity, influencing and coaching senior leaders
- Experience with business norms, customs, and employment standards specific to the European market, with a focus on Germany, UK and Netherlands
- Must be fluent in English with the ability to connect US-based teams to European teams as needed
- Experience navigating local government systems in order to accomplish business related tasks
- Experience providing consultative guidance to both individual contributors and executive business leaders
- Emotional intelligence and capacity to operate in an ambiguous environment with a distributed workforce
- Confidence to challenge current processes/standards to pursue continuous improvement
- Ability to create an optimal team member experience that also meets business needs
- Excellent communication, detail-orientation, and organization abilities
- Financial acumen and the ability to analyze business needs to deploy people strategies
- Ability to drive full life cycle of multinational programs from discovery to delivery
What the job involves
- Leading our International Ops support, this role will support and lead our human resources function for the European market, enabling our People team to understand the objectives of our multifaceted organization (corporate, warehousing and global teams) and how we translate these business priorities into people strategies
- The person in this role brings curiosity and drive towards solving complex multinational organizational and business challenges with a collaborative, entrepreneurial approach
- Leveraging an analytical and user-centric mindset, this individual not only identifies solutions that immediately impact the organization, but can also scale with future market expansion
- Partner with the HRBP and COE teams to establish the first People team presence in Europe
- Be the day-to-day HR support for employee questions in partnership with the COE teams (People Ops, Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, etc), and process transactions related to the employee lifecycle
- Partner with the COEs to develop and execute on policies and processes that are locally compliant while keeping a consistent global approach where possible
- Provide functional support to the payroll team to ensure each payroll is submitted timely and accurately
- Identify and address opportunities where people initiatives may be in support of key business strategies and objectives
- Serve as a trusted business partner and advisor to our European-based senior leadership team in all aspects of the employee lifecycle across our corporate and operations teams within the European market
- Partner with the global People team in planning and delivering on core People programs and initiatives that enable the organization to grow at scale
- Ensure that the People initiatives within respective client groups are appropriately aligned across broader, company-wide goals
- Support evolution of GOAT Group’s engagement model as the organization continues to increase in complexity around the world, in partnership with the People Operations and other COE teams
- Partner with stakeholders within and beyond the People team (e.g. IT, Marketing & Communications, Finance, etc.) as needed
Our take
GOAT is a resale marketplace built around one core promise: if you buy it there, it's real. Best known for sneakers, the company helped pioneer the "ship-to-verify" model, where sellers send items to GOAT first for authentication before they ever reach the buyer. In a market driven by hype and scarcity, that extra step has become a major trust signal, especially for high-value, hard-to-find pieces.
Alongside human authenticators, the company has invested heavily into machine learning - reportedly using tools like NVIDIA's deep learning tech - to improve speed and accuracy at scale. At the same time it hasn't stayed confined to sneakers. By acquiring Flight Club and Grailed, GOAT has expanded into physical retail and broader streetwear, giving it multiple ways to reach buyers and sellers.
Now GOAT sits in a competitive space alongside platforms like StockX, but its positioning feels slightly different. Think less transactional exchange, more curated marketplace with a strong brand identity. As resale continues to grow globally, GOAT's challenge will be maintaining that trust and curation as scale.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
46% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jun 2021
$195m
SERIES F
Sep 2020
$100m
SERIES E
Total funding: $492.8m
Company HQ
Jefferson Park, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Eddy Lu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Eddy graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding GOAT in 2010, he was the owner of Bear Papas, an Equity Researcher at Lehman Brothers, and a Consultant at Deloitte.
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