People Business Partner
Most HRBP roles ask you to run processes someone else built. This one asks you to build them, inside the part of the business where cybersecurity actually happens, with managers who are still learning to lead and specialists who know exactly how rare they are. If you need a mature organization around you to do your best work, this isn't it. If you get energy from building one, keep reading.
About Eye Security
Eye Security protects European mid-market businesses from cyber threats: 24/7 monitoring and response, incident response, and integrated cyber insurance, all in one. We're 170+ people across the Netherlands, UK, Germany and Belgium, with roots in Dutch intelligence and national CERTs. Our mission is simple: enterprise-grade security shouldn't only be for enterprises.
The role
You'll be the People Business Partner for our core business: security operations, incident response, customer support & on boarding, and project management. It's the most varied population in the company: working students running shift rosters next to deeply specialized senior engineers, and managers at very different stages of their leadership journey.
That mix is exactly why this role needs presence more than years. You'll coach first-time managers on the basics one hour and challenge C-level on a strategic call the next. You'll need to be comfortable doing both, and to enjoy it.
And here's what makes this role bigger than the title: alongside the partnering work, you'll get to build things most HRBPs only inherit: redesigning our performance cycle, rethinking benefits, shaping how development works here. You'll lead them yourself, start to finish, and see them land in the business you partner with every day.
What you'll do
Be the trusted partner for leaders in security operations and customer support: coaching, challenging, and advising at every level of maturity, up to and including the executive team.
Be visible. This is an office where face-to-face matters: you'll be on the floor in The Hague, listening to what's actually going on, not partnering from a distance.
Build and lead People projects end to end: think redesigning the performance cycle, refreshing benefits, or building a development approach from scratch, taking it from first idea to something that sticks, while your HRBP work keeps running.
Handle the real side of employee relations: complex cases, conduct issues, working with external counsel when needed. You've seen the ugly cases and you don't flinch.
Apply Dutch labor law hands-on in day-to-day decisions, and know when to bring in an expert.
Work as part of a small, tight People team: everyone picks things up, and so will you.
What we're looking for
HRBP experience in a scaling tech environment. You've lived the journey from around 50 to a few hundred people and know what good looks like at 200 to 400.
Strong stakeholder management and the presence to challenge back, including senior leadership, without becoming the policy police.
A track record of hands-on project leadership: you've owned People initiatives from design to rollout yourself, not coordinated them from the sidelines.
Genuinely comfortable with ambiguity: our problems don't come with a manual, and you'd rather solve them creatively than wait for one.
Hands-on, working knowledge of Dutch labor law.
Fluent Dutch (native not required) and professional English.
Based in the Netherlands and happy with coming to the office: minimum 1 day per week in The Hague, ideally 3.
What we offer
Real impact: help build the People foundations of a company protecting businesses across Europe, alongside colleagues from intelligence, military, tech and consulting backgrounds.
Thursday borrels and regular team socials to catch up in person.
Quarterly get-togethers and an annual company-wide retreat (Spain, Portugal, Italy…).
Generous time off, including well being days, floating holidays and a volunteering day.
Competitive base salary and company stock (ESOP).
MacBook Pro or Dell XPS, plus iPhone or Samsung
Skills Required
- HRBP experience in a scaling environment
- Strong stakeholder management and ability to challenge senior leadership
- Track record of hands-on People project leadership from design to rollout
- Comfortable with ambiguity and creative problem solving
- Hands-on, working knowledge of Dutch labor law
- Fluent Dutch and professional English
- Based in the Netherlands and office-first availability (minimum 1 day/week in The Hague, ideally 3)
- Experience handling complex employee relations and working with external counsel when needed
What We Do
Eye Security protects small and medium-sized European enterprises from cyber threats and the high costs that follow after a successful attack. We are a specialized team of people with a background in intelligence services as well as commercial environments. We understand the threat landscape and the difficulties entrepreneurs face in battling cybercrime. Our goal is to unburden SME's with an affordable all-in-one service that safeguards them against threats targeted to their industry. Our service combines endpoint monitoring with awareness campaigns, a 24/7 incident response strategy and a cyber insurance. Your company, our cyber expertise. Together we keep your business running. Want to join our mission? Visit our career page: https://jobs.eye.security
