HR Business Partner, Swan
ESOP packages available
Temporarily Remote
Embedded finance platform
Job no longer available
Embedded finance platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
ESOP packages available
Temporarily Remote
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower all kinds of digital companies to transform their UX and start embedding banking features within minutes.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Over 5 years of experience as an HRBP, ideally in a fast-paced work environment
- Mindset: You possess the mindset of a “problem solver,” maintaining a positive and can-do attitude towards challenges and obstacles
- Knowledge: Deep understanding of HR practices and French employment laws, with ideally an experience in compensation management
- Project Management: Proven success in project management
- European Expertise: Ideally, brings European expertise to the role
- Action-Oriented: A hands-on individual who takes initiative
- Autonomy: High autonomy and ability to take initiatives, with a mature and confident personality capable of working autonomously
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills to engage effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Our Ideal Teammate: Empathetic, curious, skilled, and frank. We love to challenge each other, leaving our egos at the door
- Language: Fluent in English
- It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying
What the job involves
- To support our scale, we are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join the HR team
- As we expand, we've created this new position to align with the company's scale for 2024 and beyond
- You'll become a key member of our existing HR team, taking charge of supporting 2-3 departments
- You'll play a pivotal role at both operational and strategic levels, acting as a trusted partner to our teams in order to cultivate and nurture a best-in-class employee experience
- You'll serve as a crucial link to our People team, leveraging strong decision-making skills and in-depth knowledge of talent management and organizational design within technology companies to support our team's rapid growth
- Be the Go-To HR Contact: Cultivate strong relationships with your teams and managers throughout the employee life cycle
- From onboarding to exit, you'll establish rituals with managers and team members to build strong relationships of trust
- Provide HR Guidance: Offer HR guidance to managers on a range of issues, including talent management, employee relations, performance management, labor topics, conflict resolution, and workforce planning
- Ou'll collaborate with experts in various HR fields to deliver the best employee and manager experience
- Monitor HR Operations: Regularly monitor contractual issues, arrivals/leavings, and long-term absences in collaboration with the HR Ops team
- Manage Performance and Career Development: Drive employee performance and career development, overseeing performance appraisals and contributing to career planning
- As the talent development specialist, you'll identify future leaders and facilitate their growth
- Collaborate on HR Projects: Work closely with the HR team on structuring projects and new company policies, ensuring alignment with labor laws and market standards
- From project design to documentation, implementation, ad hoc training, and efficiency measurement, you'll be a key contributor
- Recruitment Support: Actively support recruitment for your scope(s), collaborating with our TA team and hiring managers for replacements and new positions
- Embody Company Values: Uphold and promote our company values, ensuring the continuity of our culture across the teams
Application process
- A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
- An interview with Clémentine, our Lead HR
- A case study & panel presentation
- An interview with our VP People
Our take
Swan is a European fintech specialising in embedded banking, which believes it can transform businesses by adding a financial layer. The company's APIs enable companies to integrate banking services into their own digital product - embedded finance.
While not alone in the fintech industry, the company stands out by squarely targeting SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and other fintechs. It offers an end-to-end, integrated and multi-product experience, and owns the payment and fraud risk, which has garnered the attention of impressive clients including Agricap, Carrefour, Pennylane and Ride.
Swan continues to invest into accelerating its expansion in the European market, developing more banking features that are specialized for a variety of local EU markets. It continues to gain momentum and has raised plenty of funding to support its future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
78% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$48.5m
SERIES B
Sep 2023
$42.7m
SERIES B
Total funding: $115.4m
Company benefits
- ESOP packages available
- Flexible remote policy
- Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib
- Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax
- The best health insurance
- We provide a Swile card to cover your meal on work days
- Extra holidays (RTT)
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Martin, Paris, France
Leadership
Nicolas Benady
(President & Co-founder)Former CEO of the company. Previously co-founded Antelop Solutions and PriceMinister. Acted as Product Manager for French Market of VISA Europe, President of Limonetik, IT Project Manager for AXA Cessions, and was a Team Member for Endless Winter.
Nicolas Saison
(CPO & Co-founder)Previous experience as Vice President of Product for Payboost, Digital IT Manager for AXA France, Payment Project Director for Limonetik, and as a Developer and Risk Manager for AXA.
Camille Tyan
(CEO)Previously founded ConnectX, as well as co-founding Marble, Numeral and PayPlug (at the latter of which they were CEO).
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