Human Resources Manager (HRBP-Tech, Product & Finance Teams)

About Affinity

Affinity is pioneering new frontiers in AdTech; developing solutions that push past todays limits and open new opportunities. We are a global AdTech company helping publishers discover better ways to monetize and enabling advertisers to reach the right audiences through new touch-points. Operating across 10+ markets in Asia, the US, and Europe with a team of over 450 experts, we are building privacy-first ad infrastructure that opens opportunities beyond the walled gardens.

About the Role:

This role acts as a strategic HR advisor and enabler for Affinitys internal capability centres, including Technology, Product, Finance, Legal, and other core enabler functions. The HR Business Partner works to align people practices with long-term capability-building, governance, and innovation goals. With a focus on team maturity, knowledge capital, and change readiness, the HRBP plays a critical role in ensuring continuity, clarity, and culture in complex cross-functional environments.

Stakeholder Group & Span

This HRBP supports intellectually and technically intensive teams, many of whom operate in matrixed and high-autonomy structures. The role demands a nuanced approach to culture, growth enablement, leadership partnering, and employee listening, with high alignment to internal systems and compliance rigor.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

Serve as an HR sounding board to Tech, Product, and Enabler Function leaders

Translate operational goals (e.g., new product sprints, audits, internal system

transformations) into workforce requirements

Contribute to strategic resourcing, change enablement, and internal transformation

planning

Workforce Planning & Talent Strategy

Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to define quarterly hiring needs, realignment plans,

and skill demand forecasts

Conduct ongoing org mapping and role evolution exercises; identify HIPOT and LOPOT

team members and work with managers for interventions

Proactively identify capability gaps and align with L&D for targeted interventions

Culture, Engagement & Listening

Anchor sentiment deep-dives and thematic feedback loops specific to functional maturity

(e.g., Product retros, Tech town halls)

Work closely with leadership to articulate team values and shared identity, especially in

hybrid/remote setups

Act as a neutral facilitator in team conflict resolution and relationship buildingD. Performance &

Manager Enablement

Ensure role clarity, OKR/KPI linkage, and manager preparedness for performance reviews

Enable feedback-rich environments in engineering/product cultures that may otherwise

deprioritize structured reviews

Coach managers on communication, boundary-setting, and capability acceleration

Retention & Risk Mitigation

Maintain a heatmap of retention risks and early attrition indicators across the business

group

Collaborate with Rewards, Finance, and Ops to co-create interventions (recognition, comp

realignment, mobility)

Influence design of role-level growth paths, internal transfers, or re-scoping initiatives

Data, Insights & Policy Influence

Consolidate and present insights to functional leaders on attrition, engagement, and

internal talent flow

Represent stakeholder voice in HR policy evolution (e.g., flexible work models, internal

mobility, upskilling mandates)

Co-own ESAT surveys and action planning; facilitate cross-functional comparisons and

follow-ups

Success Metrics

ESAT Score trend within business group

% Reduction in attrition

Stakeholder Feedback (qualitative & survey-led)

Hiring plan vs actual alignment (in collaboration with TA)

100% PMS process completion and timely qualitative OKR/KPI closure

Business feedback incorporation into HR policies or practices

Key Requirements

8+ Years in HR Business Partnering Roles (Generalist)

5+ Years handling Tech Teams as an HRBP

Experience in managing HC of 500+

Experience in Managing C-suite Stakeholders

Ability to work in a fast paced large HR team (20+ Team members)

Extensive experience in Change & Performance Management, ER, workforce planning and people analytics

Ability to deal within internal and external cross-functional teams (Finance, L&D, TA, Employee Experience, Travel Desk)

Experience within large Tech, Ad-tech, Fintech or SaaS tech is essential