People & Talent Partner

Job description

ABOUT UNIT Unit https://www.unit.co/ is a market leader in embedded finance. We offer ready-to-launch financial services - like banking and capital - and serve millions of end-users across ~100 customers, including Wix, Honeybook, Relay, and more. We’re repeat founders with technical backgrounds, working hard to build a successful company that we’re proud to work at. Our product moves $40b+ annually and processes 12m+ API calls daily. We’ve raised $160m+ from top investors including Insight, Accel, and 60+ angels. We are proud to be recognized on CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies. https://www.cnbc.com/worlds-top-fintech-companies-2026/ THE ROLE We are seeking a People & Talent Partner to join our Global People team to help shape the future of our organization. This is a high-impact, hybrid role designed for a professional who thrives on the intersection of rapid organizational scaling and deep human-centric partnership. You will own the full employee lifecycle for our Tel Aviv site, from driving sophisticated talent acquisition strategies to serving as a trusted People Partner. You will translate business goals into people strategies, ensuring Unit attracts top-tier talent while fostering a culture of high performance, engagement, and operational excellence. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES TALENT ACQUISITION - Full-Cycle Ownership: Lead the end-to-end recruiting process, from initial requisition to offer negotiations. - Strategic Sourcing: Design and execute sophisticated outbound sourcing motions, using advanced search techniques, data-driven market mapping, and AI tools to ensure we always hire the top talent. - Talent Marketing & Branding: Elevate Unit’s employer brand, ensuring Unit is a "magnet" for exceptional professionals in the Israeli tech ecosystems. - Hiring Partnership: Act as a talent advisor to hiring managers, providing market insights, assessment frameworks, and decision-making support. - Innovation: Leverage AI and advanced recruitment technologies to optimize the hiring funnel and ensure a world-class candidate experience. - Data: Track and analyze recruitment metrics to identify trends, optimize processes, and ensure hiring excellence - Candidate experience: Deliver an exceptional, human-centered candidate experience throughout the process. PEOPLE PARTNER - Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to managers across the full employee lifecycle, providing coaching on leadership, performance management, and structural evolution. - Culture & Engagement: Drive initiatives related to company values, employee morale, and organizational effectiveness. Lead engagement surveys and translate results into actionable retention strategies. - Performance & Growth: Manage annual performance evaluations, compensation planning, and succession planning, ensuring alignment with global strategy and local market benchmarks. - OD & Learning: Integrate organizational development and learning perspectives into leadership training and ongoing people processes. - Operational Excellence: Oversee the end-to-end employee lifecycle operations, including seamless onboarding and offboarding, and management of HR systems (HRIS). - Global-Local Alignment: Partner closely with the Global People Team to implement international HR processes, while expertly tailoring them to align with the unique Israeli high-tech landscape and local labor compliance. - Data-Driven Insights: Manage and analyze HR data to identify trends, ensure data integrity, and provide actionable insights that support informed decision-making. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - "Hybrid" Background: 3+ years of experience as Talent Acquisition and 3+ years experience as People Partner role within a high-growth, global tech environment (Israel-US experience is a significant advantage). - Strategic Advisory: Experience coaching managers through difficult performance cycles, structural changes, and the "human" nuances of a high-pressure environment. You know when to be empathetic and when to be direct. - Recruitment Mastery: Deep expertise in building sophisticated sourcing "engines". You must be comfortable using AI tools and data to optimize the funnel and attract talent that aligns with our culture of excellence. - Operational Depth: Hands-on experience with the full employee lifecycle in Israel, from local labor laws and compliance to compensation benchmarking and HRIS management. - The "Unit" Mindset: A proven track record of operating with urgency and ownership. You don't just "support" managers; you partner with them to solve organizational puzzles. - Adaptability: A proactive, resourceful, and independent professional who thrives in ambiguity and can pivot quickly as organizational needs evolve. You are comfortable with "constant change" and see it as an opportunity to build. - Technical Savvy: Strong proficiency in HRIS, ATS platforms, and AI-driven tools. You don’t just use tools; you leverage them to create operational leverage and scale your impact. - Analytical Rigor: Ability to translate people data into business insights. You should be comfortable presenting "the why" behind retention trends or hiring bottlenecks to leadership. - Communication & Influence: Exceptional English and Hebrew (written and verbal). You need to be able to create clear, impactful documentation that scales. - Global Collaboration: A "one-team" mentality. You are comfortable working in a hybrid, cross-continental model. LIFE AT UNIT Working at Unit means joining a global team on a mission to create a more equitable financial ecosystem. We’re a fast-growing team of individuals who are passionate about their work, see the big picture and always seek to empower our clients and their end-customers.