Senior HR Business Partner

Coder is building out its international People function ahead of the launch of our London entity this summer. This is a foundational hire: youll be the first dedicated People Operations presence in the UK responsible for running the day-to-day employee experience for our London team and employees across our Employer of Record (EOR) relationships globally.

Youll work closely with our US-based HR Manager who owns the broader People strategy and our HR Coordinator who handles domestic admin but youll be the subject matter expert and primary point of contact for anything international.

As our London entity matures this role is expected to grow into the People Lead for the UK and EMEA.

What youll do here

• Serve as the primary HR contact for employees in the UK and across EOR arrangements

• Own offer letter generation contract administration and onboarding workflows for international hires including navigating country-specific requirements

• Administer employee benefits across EOR providers; identify gaps and make recommendations as we transition to a direct London entity

• Support entity setup this summer by working with legal finance and our HRBP to build a compliant UK employment infrastructure from the ground up

• Be the internal expert on UK employment law from contracts right to work statutory leave entitlements termination requirements and any country-specific norms

• Advise the HR Manager and People leadership on international compliance matters proactively flag risks

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of employment regulations across our active EOR countries

• Manage international employee data and workflows in Rippling and/or Deel

• Ensure data integrity across HRIS systems; support audits and reporting

• Identify and implement process improvements for how we onboard administer and offboard international employees

• Resolve employee questions on benefits policies leave and pay

• Partner with the HR Coordinator to divide and streamline administrative work across the team

What were looking for

• 5 years in HR/People Operations with meaningful time focused on UK and/or international employment

• Hands-on experience with Rippling and/or Deel

• Solid working knowledge of UK employment law; familiarity with EOR models and their limitations

• Comfortable being autonomous and the only People person in the room in London

• Detail-oriented enough to catch a contract error before it ships and strategic enough to know when to escalate

• Extremely collaborative - this role works closely with a US-based team across time zones

Bonus tacos if you have

• (Tacos If you need an ice-breaker ask how we say thanks by giving tacos!)

• Experience supporting a company through a legal entity launch

• Exposure to EMEA employment law beyond the UK

• Background in a high-growth startup ideally in a technical or SaaS environment

About Coder

Coder is an AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. We empower teams to build software faster more securely and at scale through the collaboration of AI coding agents and human developers. Our mission is to make agentic AI a safe trusted and integral part of every software development lifecycle.

Our self-hosted AI Development Environment is the foundation for deploying agentic AI in the enterprise. It provides a secure standardized and governed workspace to deploy autonomous coding agents alongside human developers accelerating innovation while maintaining control and compliance. Coders isolated policy-driven environments improve productivity cut cloud costs and reduce data risks. Developers transition to AI at their own pace using their own tools. Platform and security teams can govern audit and manage a great developer experience at scale.

Interview process

We believe that the interview process should be transparent consistent and enjoyable. We value your time and hope to complete the interview process in two to four weeks if schedules allow. Through your interviews you will meet a mix of individual contributors managers and senior leaders.

AI use during the interview process

As an AI company Coder embraces the use of AI tools and we want to be transparent about our expectations as you navigate our interview process.

Not permitted: Using AI assistance during conversational interviews.

Permitted: Using AI tooling for take-home assessments. Please flag where and to what extent it was used in your take-home. Your submission will not be penalized for using AI as long as it is done honestly.

Our use of AI in hiring

We use AI tools to help manage our recruitment process efficiently and fairly. Specifically:

• Ashby helps us review inbound applications by surfacing candidates who best match the role requirements weve defined. This tool does not make hiring decisions - it helps our team prioritize which applications to review first.

• Granola takes notes during our interview calls so our team can focus on the conversation with you.

All hiring decisions are made by humans. Our team reviews applications conducts interviews and makes final selections. AI tools assist us but never replace human judgment and these practices are conducted in compliance with applicable data protection AI governance and labor laws. Your data is not used to train AI models.

In accordance with New York City Local Law 144 an independent bias audit has been conducted on Automated Employment Decision Tools; results are available for Ashby.

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Coder is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race color ancestry religion sex pregnancy gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation national origin age marital status genetic information disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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