People Partner Lead - Engineering & Product
Finom
Product, People & HR
Spain
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
About Finom
We’re a fast-scaling European remote-first fintech serving SMEs. Our mission is to enable entrepreneurs across Europe to do all things banking and finance, so they could focus on what they do best - their business. We are 550+ employees and growing, spread across Europe. With our recent series C, we are well positioned for further expansion both in terms of wider product/customer offering as well as the markets. We are looking for a senior member of the People Leadership team to help scale and mature our Product & Engineering organization.
What You’ll Do
- Drive culture change and talent transformation
- Partner directly with C-level leaders, owning everything HR/People for Engineering & Product teams end-to-end
- Coach managers through tough conversations, calibrations, and high-stakes people decisions
- Solve wide range of problems with an outcome-over-output mindset
- Guide org. design, workforce planning, and leadership transitions
- Balance high-performance culture standards with strong engagement and retention
What We’re Looking For
- 8+ years overall HR experience, with 3–4 years people partnering with Engineering & Product Leadership (C level, and their -1s)
- Track record of driving culture change initiatives in a product-led environment
- Experience in raising performance standards in high-growth, culturally diverse organizations (ideally fintech/tech)
- Strong knowledge of European employment frameworks and cultural nuances
- Product-minded problem solver: nimble, commercially aware, and focused on outcomes over process
- Exceptional communicator & coach, confident in building trust with senior stakeholders and holding your ground on tough calls
- Bonus Points: Hands-on curiosity about AI and automation (e.g. Slack workflows, Notion AI, Lovable or similar tools)
- Experience working with Eastern European teams
What Success looks like in Year One
- Together with the CTO, you have paved the way for the Engineering culture transformation and set the new ways of working within Engineering teams
- Working closely with CTO & CPO, you unlocked better collaboration between Product & Engineering organization by facilitating Domain driven talent management initiatives
- Collaborating with the Head of Talent, you have defined and implemented a clear talent & location strategy, and met our ambitious hiring plans
- You have enabled retention of the high-performing talent by executing a structured talent/people cycle (performance, reward, engagement)
Why This Role Matters
- This isn’t a traditional HR role—we are looking for a true strategic business partner to Engineering & Product teams, who is able to translate the value of people initiatives into clear commercial outcomes