People Partner

People Partner

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays.

Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

The Role

As a People Partner at Runa, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping how we support, develop, and empower our people. Working closely with teams across Engineering, Product & Design, and Finance, you’ll help create the conditions for high performance, growth, and engagement, not just for leaders and managers, but for every individual within those teams.

This role blends strategy and action, you’ll shape big-picture initiatives that influence how we grow as a company, while taking full ownership to make an impact day to day. With the freedom to experiment, challenge, and evolve how we approach performance, development, and culture, you’ll help make Runa a place where every person can do their best work.

What Excites You

• Providing thoughtful, pragmatic guidance that helps teams do their best work, handling employee relations matters with fairness, care, and a healthy dose of commercial sense.

• Partnering with key stakeholders to keep feedback flowing, progression visible, and recognition genuine, using data to spot trends, gaps, and opportunities for growth.

• Contributing to initiatives across compensation, retention, learning & development, and DEI, weaving inclusivity and engagement into everything we do.

• Building trusted relationships with leaders and teams alike, acting as a thought partner who connects people team priorities with business impact.

• Championing ideas and initiatives that make Runa an even better place to work, bringing our values to life and helping our culture evolve as we grow.

• Collaborating with People Operations to keep our people processes running smoothly and efficiently, making sure they work for both the business and the people who power it.

What Excites Us

You thrive in fast-moving environments where you can make an impact. You bring a strong foundation in people partnering, an analytical mindset, and a genuine passion for helping people and teams grow. You’re confident advising at all levels and aren’t afraid to take ownership, turning insight into action.

• Experienced as a People Partner, ideally within dynamic, scaling tech environments.

• You have strong employee relations knowledge and guide fair, thoughtful outcomes around performance and the employee lifecycle.

• Skilled at using data and insights to drive improvements in performance, engagement, and retention.

• Able to balance people priorities with business goals, adapting with pragmatism and curiosity.

• You take ownership, drive initiatives forward, and bring creative, practical solutions that make a measurable difference.

• Naturally collaborative, you connect across People Ops, Talent, and business teams to create a seamless employee experience.

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

What’s in it for you

🏢 We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)

📚£1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D days per year

🌴 25 days holiday + public holidays

🔋 Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day

☀️ Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.

🗺️ Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year

🚀 Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa

🚑 Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa

👶 Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay

💷 We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.

The Interview Process

☎️Talent Screen - Talent Partner

☎️ Hiring Manager Interview - Head of People

💻Task Interview - Cross-functional Panel

🌟Values Interview - Leadership Team & Final Call - CFO

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.