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# HR Business Partner, EMEA at Retool

- **Company:** Retool
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retool/am9icG9zdDqyrek_ZDX0__0O2ldCiu96

## Job description

## WHY WE’RE LOOKING FOR YOU:

As the EMEA HR Business Partner, you'll be the People team's primary representative in the region and a key partner to EMEA leaders, managers, and employees. This is not a traditional HRBP role with a narrowly defined business-partnering remit. Instead, you'll operate across the full breadth of the People function, combining hands-on People Operations, HR business partnering, Recruiting support, and close partnership with Workplace, as and when required. You'll be equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to solve an operational problem, supporting a hiring process, helping a manager navigate a people issue, or partnering with Workplace on the employee experience, and then stepping back to identify broader organisational trends, advise leaders, and shape regional People priorities.

You'll be the eyes and ears of the broader People team in EMEA: building strong relationships across the region, understanding what is happening on the ground, bringing regional context and insights back to the global People team, and helping translate global People programmes into an effective EMEA experience. This is a highly varied role for someone who enjoys switching between tactical execution and strategic business partnership, thrives in ambiguity, and is energised by building and improving things as the organisation grows.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- Act as the primary People team partner for EMEA, building trusted relationships with regional leaders, managers, and employees across Pre-Sales, Post-Sales, Professional Services, Support, RevOps, Marketing, and Partnerships
- Partner with managers on performance, employee relations, feedback, development, team health, and other day-to-day people matters
- Provide hands-on People Operations support across the employee lifecycle, partnering with the global People Operations team to ensure processes are delivered effectively in EMEA.
- Support the Recruitment team for EMEA hires, including partnering with hiring managers, participating in interviews, and providing regional context where needed
- Partner closely with Workplace function, to support employee experience, engagement, events, and regional culture initiatives.
- Be the eyes and ears of the broader People team in EMEA; proactively identifying themes, risks, opportunities, and feedback from the region and bringing those insights back to the global team
- Support the rollout of any global People programmes in EMEA, while identifying where regional requirements or context call for a different approach
- Help managers and leaders navigate complex and sensitive people situations, balancing employee experience, business needs, and appropriate risk management
- Partner with Finance, Legal, Workplace, Recruiting, and other cross-functional teams on regional people matters, as and when required
- Build strong relationships with EMEA leadership and use your understanding of the business to provide thoughtful, commercially aware People advice
- Switch comfortably between tactical execution and strategic business partnership depending on what the business needs
- Help the broader People team stay connected to what is happening across EMEA and ensure the region is well represented in global People priorities

## THE SKILLSET YOU’LL BRING:

- You have 5+ years of experience in a broad HRBP, People Partner, or generalist role, ideally in a fast-growing technology company
- Demonstrated experience partnering with GTM leaders and teams, serving as a trusted HR advisor across functions such as Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, RevOps, Customer Success, Support, and Professional Services
- Hands-on experience with UK benefits and HR operations, including managing employee lifecycle events, partnering with vendors, ensuring local compliance, and driving a smooth employee experience.
- You’re a true generalist who enjoys variety and is comfortable operating across People Operations, employee relations, recruiting, workplace/employee experience, and strategic business partnering
- You’re equally comfortable getting into the weeds on a tactical problem and stepping back to advise a senior leader on a broader organisational issue
- You have strong judgement and experience handling sensitive employee relations and performance matters
- You’re comfortable operating with ambiguity and building structure where processes or ownership may not yet be fully defined
- You’re highly proactive and naturally curious, you notice what is happening around you, ask questions, connect dots, and bring issues forward before they become problems
- You have strong business acumen and can understand the needs of the business beyond the People function
- You’re an excellent communicator and relationship builder, able to build trust with everyone from individual employees to senior leaders
- You’re highly organised and able to switch between competing priorities without losing sight of what matters
- You’re collaborative and comfortable working as part of a global People team while independently representing the function in EMEA
- You have experience working across EMEA and a good understanding of UK employment practices; broader European experience is a plus
- You’re based in London and can commit to our hybrid work model (Mon, Tue and Thur on-site)

## About Retool

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retool provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing custom internal software and AI applications by connecting to any database, API, or LLM.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: David Hsu (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development, Enterprise Internal Tools, AI Application Platform
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically developers, IT teams, and business operators building internal software
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable companies to build production-ready internal software and AI applications dramatically faster, with enterprise-grade security and governance, so that domain experts and developers alike can solve critical business problems.

## Products & Services
- **Retool App Builder**: A low-code platform to build custom internal apps (dashboards, admin panels, CRUD tools) by connecting to databases and APIs. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool Workflows**: A visual automation tool to build and orchestrate complex business processes and backend logic. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool AI**: An AI-powered app generation capability that transforms natural language into production-ready applications, agents, and workflows, integrating with any LLM. Type: AI Feature/Platform.
- **Retool Mobile**: A solution to build and deploy internal mobile apps from the same Retool platform. Type: SaaS/Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last round was Series C).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5 million (as per LinkedIn company data); Total Funding of $141.3 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Nat Friedman, John Collison, Daniel Gross. Customers include Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 10,000 organizations use Retool. The company has automated over 100 million hours of work. It has 6 offices across the US and UK. Despite a recent headcount reduction (-11% YoY), it maintains a strong brand in the enterprise internal tools space and is aggressively pivoting into AI-powered app generation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise Governance from Day One**: Unlike point solutions, apps built in Retool are production-ready and pass security reviews, eliminating the need for rebuilds or audit scrambles.
- **Deep Data Connectivity**: Securely connects to existing databases, APIs, and internal systems, ensuring apps run on real data with real permissions.
- **Unified Platform**: One platform to manage, orchestrate, and scale all internal apps, agents, and workflows, providing centralized visibility and governance for IT.
- **Trusted by Large Enterprises**: A strong customer base of high-profile companies (Amazon, Stripe, Brex) serves as a powerful validation of its enterprise readiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as the Core Platform**: Retool is positioning itself as the "first enterprise AppGen platform," where AI is used to generate production-ready code from natural language, expanding the definition of "developer" to include analysts and operators.
- **Scaling Enterprise Features**: The company is focused on building out governance, security, and platform capabilities to support large-scale deployments across complex organizations.
- **International Expansion**: With offices in London and a German-speaking Sales Engineer role, Retool is actively expanding its presence in the European market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company values ambition, intense curiosity, energy, and deep care. They emphasize moving fast, acting like an owner, and being both demanding and supportive.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model with offices in San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and London. The company believes great work happens when teams collaborate in person.
- **Product Impact**: Employees are close to the product and use Retool internally, giving them a direct voice in improving it. The mission is to enable a wider community of builders to create production-grade software safely.
- **Hiring Process**: Structured, with initial recruiter/hiring manager chats, a technical evaluation or practical exercise, and a final round of 3–5 interviews. The company aims for transparency and candidate preparation.
- **Employee Sentiment**: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 (127 reviews). Strengths include Work-Life Balance (4.1) and Culture (3.7). Compensation (3.4) and Career (3.4) are areas for potential improvement.

## Sources
1. [retool.com](https://retool.com/)
2. [retool.com/careers](https://retool.com/careers)
3. [retool.com/about](https://retool.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tryretool](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryretool)
5. [jobs.gem.com/retool](https://jobs.gem.com/retool)

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