Principal People Partner at Wise

Wise plc launched in 2011 under its original name TransferWise. Fast forward to 2025 - we are 8000+ Wisers across 17 countries and 117 nationalities. We are one of the world’s fastest growing, profitable technology companies and the largest tech company by market capitalisation to ever list in London. We disrupted an industry and created a new way to move money across borders. Today, over 16 million people and businesses use Wise. We process over £10 billion in cross-border transactions every month, saving customers over £1.5 billion a year. We are continuing to grow at pace and to redefine the international money space.  Since our founding, Wise has worked to make cross-border payments better for people with international lives, from expats, to small businesses trying to compete on a global scale, to students studying abroad, to customers sending money home to their families, to vacationers, to countless others. We have stayed true to our mission - making cross-border payments instant, convenient, transparent, and eventually free.  Regional People Partner We are seeking a commercially-minded, collaborative, and goal-oriented Regional People Partner to join our growing global Partner team. Based in Hyderabad, this role involves actively partnering with our India and APAC leadership team and leading the Hyderabad People team members at Wise. You will have the opportunity to work internationally with talented individuals, and be part of a larger People Team making a significant impact at scale. If you’re a curious, collaborative, passionate and results-oriented HR professional, with an eye for delivery, detail and data, then this role is for you!  Looking at all aspects of the employee experience and growth agenda through a regional lens, this role offers a lot of variety and scope, giving you access to make an impact at scale at Wise across all markets. You’ll thrive in creating great workplaces and working on a complete cycle of people services, including establishing trusted partnerships with business leaders, the People team and Wisers. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about all things people. You will love developing and delivering a regional people strategy, working with other people team members, enabling your client groups, getting to know the business, and providing pragmatic solutions to their everyday and longer term challenges. The problems we are solving: We are building the People Partner capability at Wise as a way to empower leaders and ensure the service we offer is able to scale and enable growth.  We help build our ways of working in a way that optimises for driving higher performance at speed  and gives a great Wiser experience.  Having customer-facing People Partners embedded across our business ensures that Wiser’s problems are being tackled at speed.  The How: • Create close, effective relationships with the regional leadership team, acting as a trusted people advisor to identify and achieve shared objectives, coaching, advising, and enabling them with their people plans and talent needs  • Work with the regional leadership team, broader people team globally and regionally to create and drive a regional people plan, along with metrics and OKRs,  across all facets of HR including performance management, talent development talent identification and succession, org design, employee engagement & communications, learning, workforce planning and reward • Work with the regional leadership team and Talent Acquisition to drive a strategic workforce plan for future growth across the region as well as a practical view on immediate workforce hiring needs. • You will have accountability for completing talent planning, succession, assessments, and similar processes that drive the people plan with high quality and integrity.  Drive organisational development, re-design, change, learning & engagement as needed against regional priorities, including project management & employee communications of the plans • Actively drive our DEI strategy looking at how this can be improved across all touch points of the Employee lifecycle. Support Wise initiatives and actively contribute to embed DEI nudges across our processes. • Analyse people metrics and risks adding further insight into the overall health of our teams and to share trends or determine opportunities for focus • Lead the WiserPulse (our engagement survey) rollout and drive action plans for the region. • Provide advice and consultation on complex Employee Relations issues • Help shape the global people team plan and priorities through the collation of regional  business trends, needs and anticipated future requirements • Champion our values and culture, being a role model for these and supporting the continual embedding of them in everything we do.