International HRBP (Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France)

✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity 

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. 

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

🌏 Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries 🌈 Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female 🏆 Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class 🦄 Raised $150 million in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion!

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply! 

 👩‍💻 The Role 

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires that you are based within +4.00 to 0.00 UTC.

The People Services team provides HR expertise and services on a country-by-country basis to our customers and team members.  As an International HRBP in People Services, you will support our team members and customers across your allocated countries in Europe.

Your pragmatic approach to HR topics combined with your extensive country HR experience will help guide our internal Oyster teams to best support our team members and customers.

With your customer focused outlook and your ability to solve even the most complex HR matters, you will make our customers wish that they had our HR for all their matters, even beyond distributed workers!

What you'll do…

Country HR information and knowledge

• Draft country specific information on a wide range of HR topics in our team format.
• Answer questions (in the form of tickets) on HR topics escalated due to complexity, from our first line teams.
• Provide internal Oyster teams with training (or other methods of increasing their knowledge) on HR topics as needs arise.
• Look for opportunities to proactively improve country specific HR information.
• Attend customer calls from time to time when there are questions on country specific HR information.
• Work with other teams (e.g. Customer Support, Sales, Product, Legal) to problem solve country specific issues with your HR knowledge.

Sensitive/complex HR matters

• Manage the full breadth of sensitive/complex HR matters which arise from time to time (performance, behaviours, potential terminations, actual terminations, investigations etc.) in allocated countries.

Projects

• Contribute to People Services and cross team projects as we work towards our Mission to enable companies to hire anyone, anywhere!

What we're looking for...

• 6+ years generalist HR experience.
• You have provided HR support across multiple European countries, with a specific focus in France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.
• 2+ years experience representing an employer at a Work Council and can demonstrate experience in building a collaborative and positive relationship with Work Councils.
• You have dealt with the most tricky HR situations before including investigations and terminations.
• You are a clear communicator who can simply explain complex topics both verbally and in written form.
• You are confident in your HR knowledge and will provide options and recommendations on courses of action when we are facing problems we need to solve.
• You are experienced and confident presenting to a wide range of stakeholders.
• You are excited to build and challenge the status quo.
• You are Customer, Team Member and Employee focused in everything you do!
• [BONUS] You have additional language skills in German and/or French - ideally both.
• [BONUS] You have lived/worked in more than one country.
• [BONUS] You have worked in a fast growing start up company before.

You'll also need...

• A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
• Fluent English language skills

🦪 How we work together at Oyster

Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes