At BrightLocal, our mission is simple: empower businesses to grow locally. We do this by making growth simple by removing the complexity of local search marketing, enabling local businesses to rise above their competitors and win new customers.
We turn data into action through AI-powered insights, expert guidance, and hands-on support that help businesses make the right decisions.
⭐ About the Role
As our People Partner, you’ll help our teams to thrive, building strong performance, meaningful development, and healthy, sustainable ways of working.
This role will play a key part in partnering with our newly created Sales Circle, as we explore new ways of organising work, while also flexing to support other teams as priorities shift. It’s a brilliant opportunity for someone who loves working close to the business, balancing commercial impact with care for people.
🎯 What you’ll be doing
Turning our people strategy into real impact
* Partner with the Head of People Experience to translate our People strategy into practical, high-impact actions.
* Work closely with leaders and team members across Sales and other commercial teams.
Partnering with leaders and teams
* Act as a trusted People Partner, with a primary focus on the Sales Circle.
* Support leaders with: Performance and feedback, team health and engagement, change, growth, and evolving roles
* Provide clear, pragmatic guidance that strikes a balance between compliance and doing the right thing for people.
Performance, growth & accountability
* Help BrightLocal build high-performing, sustainable teams through clear expectations and goals, regular 1:1s and feedback and meaningful development conversations
* Support career paths and progression for sales and customer-facing roles.
* Coach leaders to manage performance confidently, fairly, and constructively.
Capability & development
* Identify capability gaps early, particularly in fast-growing or high-pressure areas.
* Design and deliver learning and development initiatives that support both individual growth and business needs.
* Contribute to succession planning and talent development across BrightLocal, not just within one area.
Engagement, culture & ways of working
* Own engagement initiatives, using feedback to drive real, visible improvements.
* Support teams to balance pace and performance with wellbeing and sustainability.
* Help embed BrightLocal’s beliefs into how work gets done.
Insight, data & decision-making
* Use people data, feedback, and insight to spot trends, risks, and opportunities.
* Share insights in a way that helps leaders make better people decisions.
🎁 What We Offer
* Salary: Dependent on experience
* Bonus: Up to 20% (10% company + 10% team performance)
* Hybrid working: 2 days a week in our Brighton office
* Flexible hours: 30–37.5 hours per week considered
* Holiday: 25 days + bank holidays + your birthday off
* Duvet Days: 3 per year
* Healthcare: Vitality
* Learning & Development: £1000 annual personal budget + additional opportunities
🌱 About You
* Genuinely connects with BrightLocal’s beliefs and brings them to life.
* Understands the realities of commercial and customer-facing environments.
* Is practical, thoughtful, and confident enough to challenge when needed.
* Has a deep love of organisational culture and knows how to evolve it.
* Is delivery-focused, comfortable with ambiguity, and enjoys creative problem-solving.
* Thrives in change and helps others find clarity.
Experience That Will Help You Thrive
* Proven experience at a People Partner level across the full employee lifecycle.
* Experience working within an international business.
* Strong knowledge of employment law and people best practice.
* A track record of partnering with leaders in sales or revenue-generating teams.
* Confidence handling sensitive situations with care and discretion.
* Experience using people data to inform decisions.
* Familiarity with HR systems (HiBob is a bonus!).
* Experience in fast-paced, scale-up or SaaS environments.
🚀 About BrightLocal
We’re friendly, talented, and deeply connected to our company's beliefs. Whether in our vibrant Brighton office or working remotely, we want every team member to feel energised, valued, and excited to come to work.
If you’re passionate about great hiring, love building meaningful candidate experiences, and want to play a key role in shaping a growing organisation, we’d love to hear from you.