HR Business Partner, Education Vertical

About the Role

Codeway's Education Vertical is on a mission to build the next generation of education products and help democratize learning with AI. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how people learn, and we're building the team that will shape what that future looks like.

Our flagship app Learna recently claimed the #1 spot among worldwide education apps in terms of downloads, with a few other exciting EdTech apps already scaling and several stealth projects in the pipeline. We're already a team of 80+ people running at $100M+ ARR with tremendous year-over-year growth, and we have ambitious plans to scale from here. It's one of the most exciting verticals to work in within the powerhouse that Codeway is today.

As an HR Business Partner for the Education Vertical, you will act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, with a strong focus on elevating management practices, driving compensation excellence, and shaping people strategy.

This is a role based in our new Barcelona HQ, working directly with the Education Vertical CEO and business leaders, while staying closely connected with our Istanbul office and teams to ensure strong alignment across locations.

You will play a key role in building scalable, high-quality HR foundations, coaching managers, strengthening performance and salary review processes, and partnering closely with HR Operations to ensure consistent, data-driven execution across the employee lifecycle.

This role requires high autonomy, ownership, and a proactive mindset; you won't just execute processes, but challenge the status quo and bring forward better ways of doing things.
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Key Responsibilities

◦ Partner with leaders to translate business strategy into clear people priorities, with a strong focus on manager effectiveness, team performance, and retention.

◦ Work closely with the Education Vertical CEO, Barcelona leadership, and Istanbul teams to support strong coordination across locations.

◦ Work closely with Codeway's HQ HR Team to align vertical HR practices with HQ guidelines, and help contribute to and shape the HQ agenda by extracting best practices from the vertical.

◦ Build and embed best practices for managers: performance conversations, feedback culture, goal setting, and team health, raising the overall quality of leadership across the organisation.

◦ Own and continuously improve performance and salary review cycles, ensuring fairness, consistency, and strong calibration across teams.

◦ Drive and evolve compensation & benefits practices: benchmarking, internal equity, salary frameworks, and decision-making guidelines.

◦ Act as a coach and thought partner to managers, supporting them in complex situations, developing their leadership capabilities, and holding a high bar for people management.

◦ Lead complex employee relations topics with a balanced, pragmatic, and compliant approach.

◦ Collaborate closely with HR Operations to ensure policies, processes, and data are scalable, consistent, and well-executed.

◦ Use data and insights to challenge decisions, identify gaps, and propose actionable improvements across people initiatives.

◦ Proactively identify organisational needs and drive initiatives that improve effectiveness, engagement, and long-term scalability.

◦ Help shape people practices that work effectively across our Barcelona and Istanbul teams.
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Why this role

You’ll have a direct impact on how the company scales, shaping people management practices, compensation practices, and core people processes. This is a role for someone who wants to go beyond execution and actively influence how things are done, bringing structure, clarity, and better standards as the organisation grows.

You’ll also play a key role in Codeway’s next phase of growth in Barcelona, while staying closely connected to our Istanbul roots and existing people systems.
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Your profile

◦ 3-5 years of experience in an HR Business Partner or strong HR generalist role, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

◦ Solid experience in compensation, salary reviews, and performance management processes.

◦ Proven ability to coach and challenge managers, with a clear point of view on what good looks like in people management.

◦ Strong business acumen and ability to influence senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility.

◦ Hands-on, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high level of autonomy and ownership.

◦ Agile, flexible, and able to execute with a hands-on mindset in a high-growth, evolving environment.

◦ Fluency in English and Turkish is required; Spanish is a strong plus.

◦ Based in Barcelona or willing to relocate to Barcelona.

◦ Experience working in international or multi-location teams is a plus.

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