People Partner
Zopa
People & HR, Sales & Business Development
London, UK
Posted on Jul 4, 2025
Our Story
Hello there. We’re Zopa.
We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre — we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!
We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.
If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife
We are looking for an exceptional People Partner to work with us in creating memorable careers for our Zopians. We’re looking for someone who will thrive within a face-paced business, is commercially minded and able to demonstrate real agility in balancing the differing demands of a growing company.
Reporting into the People Director, you'll play a key role within the organisation, ensuring that our people are empowered to make bold decisions for growth. You’ll have significant experience in partnering within High Tech growth companies, knowing what best practice looks like from a mature business environment, balanced with experience in a scaling organisation.
We’re incredibly proud of the culture we have been able to nurture within Zopa.
A day in the life:
- Partner with senior leaders to drive performance, engagement, and organisational design.
- Use data and insights to shape strategic people plans.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion across the business.
- Coach managers and leaders to enhance effectiveness.
- Lead on employee relations, ensuring compliance with UK employment law.
- Collaborate on initiatives that support our culture and talent strategy.
- Support succession planning and talent development in partnership with L&D.
- Bring external insight to shape best practice.
About you:
- Proven People Partnering experience in scaling (ideally high tech) environments.
- Comfortable balancing strategic and operational HR.
- Strong change/project management experience.
- Data-driven with a commercial mindset.
- Excellent knowledge of UK employment law.
- High emotional intelligence and inclusive approach.
- Experience coaching for performance and navigating complex situations.
You'll thrive here if you:
- Are adaptable, pragmatic, and collaborative.
- Have strong stakeholder management skills and communicate with clarity.
- Think analytically and act decisively.
- Bring creative ideas to life and own your impact.
- Keep inclusion at the heart of what you do.
If you’re thoughtful, inspiring, and thrive in ambiguity—we’d love to hear from you.
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We're on the move!
Towards the end of 2025 Zopa will be relocating to a brand-new headquarters at 20 Water Street in Canary Wharf. The 44,000 square foot workspace will foster collaboration and inspire creativity for our 900 employees amidst our 2025 growth blitz.
At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.
We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.
You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.
*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice
Diversity Statement
Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.