People Partner
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Marshmallow seeks a full-time onsite People Partner in London to join the People Team and partner with leaders on day-to-day people issues and initiatives. You will balance frontline ER with strategic input on organisational design and workforce planning, support the lifecycle from onboarding to exits, and use data to drive practical improvements while ensuring fair, legally compliant outcomes. The ideal candidate has about five years in a people role, strong relationship and communication skills, and a commercially aware growth mindset for UK ER in a fast-growing tech environment. Sponsorship is not available; tailor your CV to highlight ER wins and UK law experience, and review the Culture Handbook for alignment.
About Marshmallow
We exist to make migration easy.
A systemic problem of this magnitude requires a team of curious thinkers who relentlessly pursue solutions. Those who constantly challenge the why, dismantle assumptions, and always take action to build a better way.
A Marshmallow career is built on a cycle of continuous growth, with learning at its core. You will be challenged to raise the bar on your capabilities and supported with the right tools and guidance to do so. This ensures you can deliver impactful work and drive change.
If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our Culture Handbook to find out more.
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People Team
Our People team sits at the heart of Marshmallow, partnering with leaders across the business to build high-performing, inclusive, and engaged teams. We focus on creating a consistent, high-quality People experience at every stage of the employee lifecycle, enabling our people to do their best work while staying true to our values.
As a People Partner / People Advisor, you’ll be a front-line partner to leaders across the organisation, with a strong focus on managing employee relations queries and providing clear, practical guidance on people issues. You’ll work closely with our more senior People Partners, supporting a wide range of teams and helping leaders handle performance, wellbeing, change, and day-to-day people challenges with confidence.
This role is hands-on and execution-focused, balancing ER casework with broader partnering support. You’ll play a key role in embedding consistent people practices, contributing to team-wide initiatives, and ensuring employees and managers have a positive, well-supported experience as Marshmallow continues to grow
What you'll be doing
Partner with leaders across the business to navigate people challenges with confidence, from day-to-day guidance through complex employee relations matters
Provide strategic guidance on organisational design, workforce planning, and team effectiveness across the organisation
Support the full employee lifecycle from onboarding, performance management, development and exits – enabling people to thrive
Lead on frontline employee relations support for multiple UK business areas, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes
Champion an inclusive, values-led culture and identify opportunities to improve people processes and the overall employee experience across the UK business
Use people data and insights to identify patterns and drive practical improvement plans with leaders
Who You Are
Someone with ~5 years of previous experience in a people-related role, with some experience as an HR advisor or HRBP/People Partner
Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to quickly gain trust and credibility across different teams and levels of the organisation
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to explain People processes and ER matters clearly and calmly, both verbally and in writing
Confident handling day-to-day and complex UK employee relations issues (e.g. performance, conduct, grievance) with a fair, balanced and legally-aware approach
Comfortable juggling multiple cases, stakeholder needs and People initiatives in a fast-paced, growing business
Commercially aware – curious about how the whole business works and able to factor business priorities into People advice
Growth mindset – eager to learn from a more senior People Partner, take feedback on board, and keep developing your partnering capability
Comfortable with change and ambiguity, adapting your approach as the organisation evolves and new People processes are introduced
Perks of the job
Flexible working - Spend 3 days per week with your team in our new collaborative London office, and own your own working hours. The rest is up to you 🏠
Competitive bonus scheme - designed to reward and recognise high performance 🌟
Flexible benefits budget - £50 per month to spend on a Ben Mastercard meaning you get your own benefits budget to spend on things you want. Whether that’s subscriptions, night classes (puppy yoga, anyone?), the big shop or a forest of houseplants. Pretty much anything goes 💰
Mental wellbeing support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Oliva 💚
Learning and development – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year - on us! - to further your skillset 🤓
Private health care - Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches 🏥
Medical cash plan - To help you with the costs of dental, optical and physio (plus more!)
Tech scheme - Get the latest tech for less 🖥
Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle to work scheme, monthly team socials and company-wide socials every month!
We are not in a position to offer sponsorship and/or a visa for this position.
Our process
We break it up into 4 stages:
Initial call with someone in the Talent team (45 mins)
A skill-based interview where you’ll discuss your experience as a People Partner, especially supporting Technology teams and UK employee relations (1 hour)
A task based interview, onsite for (1 hour)
A culture interview to explore how your ways of working align with our values and ways of partnering with leaders (1 hour)
We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application.
Background checks
As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and trustworthy environment, we’ll carry out standard background checks, including a DBS and a Cifas check. These help ensure there are no ongoing criminal proceedings and support the prevention of fraud and other forms of serious misconduct. If anything of concern is identified, it may affect your eligibility for certain roles or services. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!
Everyone belongs at Marshmallow
At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.
We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.
We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.
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