Scaleway is a European cloud provider delivering infrastructure and managed services for development and production workloads. Its portfolio includes bare metal servers, virtual instances, containers, Kubernetes, serverless computing, managed databases, and infrastructure for artificial intelligence and machine learning. Scaleway supports organizations in sectors including the public sector, gaming, retail, e-commerce, and logistics, with an emphasis on scalable performance, GDPR compliance, European data sovereignty, predictable pricing, and sustainability through renewable-energy-powered data centers.
Senior HR Business Partner, France (Hybrid) – Scaleway
Partner with managers on employee relations, talent processes, and people decisions at Scaleway. Lead organizational change across a growing European cloud and AI organization.
Description
- Serve as the primary HR partner for managers in the assigned business scope
- Coach managers, provide HR guidance, and support employee-related decisions
- Offer constructive challenge on compensation, performance management, management practices, and people decisions
- Anticipate workforce needs and connect people strategies with operational priorities
- Lead organizational changes such as reorganizations, scope adjustments, and team mergers
- Manage complex employee relations cases independently, including disciplinary processes, mutual termination agreements, incapacity cases, and employment-law disputes
- Work with Legal on relevant employee relations matters
- Address psychosocial risks, workplace conflicts, and employee reports
- Support employee relations activities, including CSE preparation, collective bargaining, and collective-agreement monitoring
- Manage the employee lifecycle from onboarding and internal mobility through development and offboarding
- Lead Talent Reviews and support annual and professional review cycles through manager enablement, calibration, and action-plan tracking
- Develop and implement improved HR practices and policies
- Deliver HR data, trend analysis, and early alerts
- Support managers and employees across Scaleway’s expanding international organization
Requirements
- At least five years of HR Business Partner experience, including substantial work in a technology or engineering environment
- Strong working knowledge of French employment law
- Independence in handling complex disciplinary, legal, and employee relations cases
- Demonstrated experience leading Talent Reviews and performance management across a sizable employee population
- Experience guiding organizational change and transformation in a rapidly growing company
- Business judgment to connect HR initiatives with organizational goals
- Fluency in spoken and written French and English
- Credibility and natural authority with senior leaders and technical teams
- Courage to challenge decisions, manage difficult conversations, and navigate trade-offs
- High emotional intelligence and sound judgment in complex situations
- Strong autonomy, prioritization skills, and results focus
- Capacity to manage multiple subjects concurrently
- Ability to build trust with employees and managers while adapting to different cultures and working styles
- Successful completion of a background check is required
- Ability to handle cases governed by French employment law
Benefits
- Hybrid working arrangement with up to three remote days per week
- Healthy meal service at headquarters
- Breakfast provided year-round at all sites
- Swile lunch card for regional offices
- On-site gym access
- Daycare places
- Discounted caregiving services
- Internal mobility opportunities
- Potential mobility to other Iliad Group entities
- Spacious offices close to public transportation
- Outdoor terraces at most offices
- Bike parking at most locations