HR Business Partner

As an HR Business Partner, you will act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, with a strong focus on elevating management practices, driving compensation excellence, and shaping people strategy.

This is a Barcelona-based role, working directly with the CEO and business leaders, while staying closely connected with our Istanbul headquarters and leadership teams to ensure strong alignment across locations.

You will play a key role in building scalable, high-quality HR foundations, coaching managers, strengthening performance and salary review processes, and partnering closely with HR Operations to ensure consistent, data-driven execution across the employee lifecycle.

This role requires high autonomy, ownership, and a proactive mindset - you won’t just execute processes, but challenge the status quo and bring forward better ways of doing things.

Key Responsibilities

◦ Partner with leaders to translate business strategy into clear people priorities, with a strong focus on manager effectiveness, team performance, and retention.

◦ Work closely with the CEO, business leaders, Barcelona-based teams, and Istanbul leadership to support strong coordination across locations.

◦ Build and embed best practices for managers: performance conversations, feedback culture, goal setting, and team health, raising the overall quality of leadership across the organisation.

◦ Own and continuously improve performance and salary review cycles, ensuring fairness, consistency, and strong calibration across teams.

◦ Drive and evolve compensation & benefits practices: benchmarking, internal equity, salary frameworks, and decision-making guidelines.

◦ Act as a coach and thought partner to managers—supporting them in complex situations, developing their leadership capabilities, and holding a high bar for people management.

◦ Lead complex employee relations topics with a balanced, pragmatic, and compliant approach.

◦ Collaborate closely with HR Operations to ensure policies, processes, and data are scalable, consistent, and well-executed.

◦ Use data and insights to challenge decisions, identify gaps, and propose actionable improvements across people initiatives.

◦ Proactively identify organisational needs and drive initiatives that improve effectiveness, engagement, and long-term scalability.

◦ Help shape people practices that work effectively across our Barcelona and Istanbul teams.

Why this role

You’ll have a direct impact on how the company scales, shaping people management practices, compensation practices, and core people processes. This is a role for someone who wants to go beyond execution and actively influence how things are done, bringing structure, clarity, and better standards as the organisation grows.

You’ll also play a key role in Codeway’s next phase of growth in Barcelona, while staying closely connected to our Istanbul roots and existing people systems.

Your profile

◦ 3-5 years of experience in an HR Business Partner or strong HR generalist role, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

◦ Solid experience in compensation, salary reviews, and performance management processes.

◦ Proven ability to coach and challenge managers, with a clear point of view on what good looks like in people management.

◦ Strong business acumen and ability to influence senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility.

◦ Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high level of autonomy and ownership.

◦ Agile, flexible, and able to execute with a hands-on mindset in a high-growth, evolving environment.

◦ Fluency in English is required; Turkish and Spanish are a strong plus.

◦ Based in Barcelona or willing to relocate to Barcelona.

◦ Experience working in international or multi-location teams is a plus.

What We Offer

◦ The chance to work with a high-caliber, passionate international team building category-defining products

◦ Full-time contract with competitive salary

◦ Private health insurance, a generous meal card

◦ Full visa & relocation support if you’re moving to Barcelona

◦ Annual learning & development budget for courses, tools, or events that support your growth

◦ Access to our wellness perks, including individual budget for sports or online consultations with a psychologist

◦ Free access to Codeway’s suite of apps across productivity, wellness, and education

◦ A top-notch office in the heart of the city