This HR Lead role involves strategic partnerships with business leaders, overseeing the employee lifecycle, and ensuring compliance with labor laws in JAPAC markets.
We are looking for an HR Lead to join our Global HR team, based in Singapore and overseeing our markets in JAPAC. Working closely with the HRBP for SAMEA & JAPAC, this role is both strategic and hands-on, partnering with business leaders to shape our people strategy locally while ensuring a high-quality, consistent employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
You will play a key role in helping our business navigate growth, organizational change, workforce planning, and people development. You’ll support leaders and teams through our core HR processes while keeping us aligned with global ways of working and compliant with local regulations. As part of a global HR community, you will collaborate with HR Business Partners, Employment Legal, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion, and other partners to deliver a world-class people experience.
This is a 9-months contract.
What You'll Do
- Partner with business leaders and the JAPAC & SAMEA HRBP to build a positive, inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Translate business priorities into people activities for attraction, development, engagement, and retention.
- Mentor and influence managers to build leadership capability and drive performance.
- Use data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and recommend pragmatic solutions and align global strategies to local market realities.
- Act a change leader, supporting teams through organisation changes and transformation efforts.
- Partner with global teams, HRBP and local leaders to help localise and implement initiatives to support manager capability, individual skill development and team efficiencies for an AI ready future.
- Drive the full employee lifecycle, ensuring smooth onboarding through to offboarding and everything in between.
- Support and action annual HR processes including talent reviews, performance calibrations, compensation cycles, engagement initiatives, and reorganizations along with HRBP.
- Provide practical, hands-on support for employee relations and policy matters, working closely with Employment Legal when needed.
- Ensure local compliance with labor law requirements while balancing global standards and local nuance.
- Review and suggest improvements to local processes to enhance scalability, efficiency and employee experience.
- Handle all local documents and government paperwork required for the region together with the broader JAPAC HR team.
Who You Are
- You have at least 7 years of dynamic HR experience in regional roles such as HR Lead, HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, Employee Relations Manager, People Operations Lead or HRBP.
- You have experience working in global or matrixed organizations; exposure to media or technology environments is preferred.
- You have experience partnering with senior leaders and supporting leadership team initiatives.
- You have hands-on knowledge of employment practices and labor regulations in key JAPAC markets across Singapore, Australia, Jakarta, Bangkok and Korea) and curiosity to learn more.
- You are comfortable navigating change and ambiguity, while keeping teams aligned and supported.
- You bring cultural agility and experience working across multiple JAPAC markets
- You build trust quickly, communicate clearly, and approach challenges with a positive and proactive approach.
- You understand how to balance global frameworks with local needs and can influence global and local partners !You can balance critical thinking with operational execution, rolling up your sleeves when needed.
- You prioritize well, stay flexible in fast-moving environments, and are resourceful in finding answers.
- You are collaborative, inclusive, and open to diverse perspectives.
- You are able to travel as required.
Where You'll Be
- This role is based in our Singapore office and payroll will be through a third party
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best ! There will be some in-person meetings but it still allows for flexibility to work from home. We ask that you come to the office 2 to 3 times per week.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
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