Who are we
At Lokalise, we make it easy and profitable for businesses to expand into new markets. Founded in 2017, our AI-powered translation and localization platform automates workflows, integrates with over 60 tools, and helps product teams launch multilingual products 10x faster and at 80% lower cost. Trusted by thousands of businesses across over 100 countries, Lokalise is empowering more than 25 million people worldwide to use diverse services in their native languages. Backed by a customer-loved support team, our platform seamlessly fits into your design and development processes, helping you scale effortlessly.
Location
While our company operates exclusively on a remote basis, you must reside and have the legal right to work in one of the following countries: the United Kingdom, Latvia, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, or Ireland.
About
We are looking for an HR Operations Professional to take full ownership of our HR operations, building scalable, efficient, and compliant people processes that empower HR Business Partners (HRBPs) to drive meaningful business conversations.
This role is a key enabler of strategic HR decision-making, delivering the insights, processes, and infrastructure that empower the People team in raising performance, enhancing employee experience, and supporting business leaders effectively.
You Will Own
Strategic Data Insights & People Analytics
- Own and develop HR dashboards and reports that provide actionable workforce insights, helping HRBPs guide business leaders effectively.
- Ensure analytics and reporting equip HRBPs with data-driven recommendations, enabling informed decision-making.
- Work closely with Finance to integrate HR and compensation data into financial systems, ensuring accurate forecasting and budgeting.
People Processes & Policies
- Design, implement, and optimize HR processes and frameworks that align with business needs while ensuring operational efficiency.
- Own and refine key HR cycles, including:
- Compensation and rewards – ensuring alignment with HRBP, Finance and business goals
- Engagement surveys – managing design, execution, and reporting to provide actionable insights
- Salary reviews, promotion cycles, and career progression – operationalising frameworks to support talent growth
- Performance management – designing and executing processes that drive excellence
- Ensure all processes are strategic, efficient, and support HRBPs in delivering value to the business.
Cross-Functional Collaboration with Finance & Internal Stakeholders
- Partner with HRBPs and Finance to ensure HR frameworks, processes, and data align with financial planning and operational workflows.
- Build and maintain HR infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with Finance systems, ensuring alignment in budgeting, compensation, and forecasting.
- Collaborate with Legal, IT, and Compliance to align HR operations with company-wide strategies.
Vendor Management & HR Systems
- Serve as the primary point of contact for HR vendors, including:
- Employer of Record (EOR) partners
- HR Management Systems (HRMS)
- Payroll and benefits providers
- Ensure vendor solutions integrate effectively with Finance and HR operations, maintaining cost efficiency and service quality.
Employment Law & Compliance
- Fully own and ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations across all locations where we operate.
- Manage employment law matters directly, via EOR or through external legal advisors, ensuring full compliance.
- Align HR policies with global labor laws and financial compliance requirements.
- Ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations in all operating regions.
- Lead HR-related work for opening new legal entities, ensuring full compliance with employment regulations.
- Manage all contracting and employment-related processes for global employees.
You Must Have
- 5+ years of experience in HR operations, HR analytics, or a similar role, in a fast-paced tech environment.
- Strong HR data analytics skills, with experience in building dashboards and insights that help HRBPs drive workforce strategy.
- Deep expertise in HR frameworks, policy design, and process optimization (compensation, performance management, engagement, promotions, etc.).
- Strong collaboration with Finance, understanding how HR data maps to financial systems.
- Deep knowledge of employment laws and compliance across multiple countries.
- Experience managing HRMS, payroll providers, and HR technology solutions.
- A process-driven mindset with a passion for efficiency, accuracy, and operational excellence.
- The ability to think strategically and execute hands-on, ensuring HR operations function at a world-class level.
Our Benefits
- Competitive salary and employee stock options plan
- Fully remote and flexible working hours
- Co-working budget
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Top-notch tech equipment for your work
- Learning & Development program
- Health insurance
- Wellness benefits
- Mental health support - every employee has access to a dedicated mental health platform
- Great startup atmosphere, team spirit, and team events
We are committed to a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications from people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, personal expressions, relationship, marital, or civil partnership statuses, racial identities, national or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, ages, and disability statuses.
What We Do
We work towards a world without language barriers ? Lokalise is the category leader for localization. We own the category, and we redefined it as well. We effectively changed the way teams decide and execute localization. Lokalise is the number one choice for any organization going global, and we are also a localization thought leader, pushing for education and quality in all localization aspects.
With us, customers reach a whole new audience of app users, online shoppers, web browsers, and game players by providing local experiences, in their language, no matter where in the world they are. Lokalise is not bound to specific personas. We address the needs of developers, product designers, product managers, go-to-market functions, and even internal resources localization. Our product provides a holistic journey to all localization aspects in a flexible all-in-one solution be it software localization, interpreting, document translation, machine translation, localized pricing, copywriting, local legal adjustments, and literally anything localization-related.
Why Work With Us
Our team operates like a professional sports team. We are not ninjas, rockstars, superheroes, or other solitary spotlight seekers. We are team players who excel at our roles and who challenge each other to accomplish more together than any ninja could on their own. We continuously support each other and live up to our five Lokalise values.
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