Founded in 2019 and part of Y Combinator's 2020 cohort, Photoroom is the leading visual solution for e-commerce.
We've raised Series B funding and reached 300+ million users worldwide, processing over 5 billion images annually and serving both small businesses and major enterprises like Amazon, DoorDash, and Decathlon through our mobile app, web platform, and API.
We're a remote-friendly team of 100+ passionate builders giving e-commerce businesses superpowers to create visuals that help them grow, making the hardest parts of selling online disappear. We focus on craft, innovation, and collaboration, creating exceptional impact for e-commerce businesses worldwide.
Role Summary
We’re looking for an experienced People Operations & People Partner Consultant to help strengthen and scale our People function during an exciting period of growth. Working directly with our VP People, you’ll split your time between operational excellence and strategic people partnering, leading projects that improve our HR systems, processes, documentation, and manager enablement while helping build a scalable People function ready for the next stage of the company’s journey.
Compensation: €400–600/day (flexible for exceptional candidates)
Location: Paris (hybrid) · Freelance · 3–4 days per week
Lead the assessment and optimisation of our People technology stack, including HRIS and vendor evaluation, helping consolidate multiple tools into a simpler, more scalable ecosystem while overseeing implementation and integration.
Review, document and improve core HR processes across the employee lifecycle, ensuring our operations, documentation and policies are structured, compliant and built to support a growing international organisation.
Support key initiatives including our company-wide levelling and compensation framework, geographic salary bands, manager enablement programmes and hybrid working model, partnering closely with leadership to deliver lasting organisational improvements.
Take ownership of reorganising and maintaining our People documentation in Notion, identifying opportunities to automate manual workflows using AI and modern tooling, and creating systems that reduce operational overhead.
Work alongside our People Operations and Workplace teams to provide pragmatic HR guidance, improve manager capability, support People programmes, and help embed best practices across the business.
Significant experience across People Operations and HR Business Partnering
7+ years working within People Operations, HR Operations, HR Business Partnering or HR Generalist roles, ideally within fast-growing startups or scale-ups where you’ve helped build processes from the ground up.
Comfortable leading multiple complex workstreams simultaneously, bringing structure to ambiguity, improving existing processes, and delivering projects from discovery through implementation.
Experience evaluating, implementing or optimising HRIS platforms and People technology, with a strong understanding of the wider HR tech landscape and an interest in automation and AI-enabled workflows.
Experience working across European employment practices and compliance, ideally with exposure to French employment law, payroll operations or multi-country HR environments.
Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail, able to identify gaps before they become problems, propose practical solutions, and confidently take ownership without needing constant direction.
Able to build trusted relationships across all levels of the business, communicate clearly with both managers and employees, and balance operational excellence with commercial pragmatism.
If you think you have what it takes but don’t meet every single point above, we’d still love to hear from you.
BenefitsFlexible freelance engagement3–4 days per week with flexibility around working patterns.
Based in Paris with regular office collaboration alongside flexibility to work remotely.
Own meaningful transformation projects that will shape how our People function as the company continues to scale.
Work directly alongside our VP People and cross-functional leadership, partnering closely with Finance, Talent, Workplace and Engineering teams.
- Screening call with Talent Manager (30 mins)- Interview with VP People (60 mins)- Practical case study/project discussion (60–90 mins)- Final interviews with key stakeholders (approximately 2 hours)- References and offersDiversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
We're committed to enabling everyone to feel included and valued at work. We believe our company and culture are strongest when composed of diverse experiences and backgrounds.
That's also why we have flexible working hours, trust people to work remotely, and extended parental leave.
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, family, gender identity, marital status, national origin, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
Skills Required
- 7+ years in People Operations, HR Operations, HR Business Partnering, or HR Generalist roles
- Experience evaluating, implementing, or optimising HRIS platforms and People technology
- Strong operational and project management skills; able to run multiple complex workstreams
- Strong knowledge of European HR practices and compliance
- Exposure to French employment law, payroll operations, or multi-country HR environments
- Experience with documentation and knowledge management in Notion
- Ability to identify automation opportunities and implement AI-enabled workflows
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and manager enablement skills
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail and ability to work autonomously
- Available to work as a freelance consultant 3-4 days per week, hybrid in Paris
Photoroom Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Photoroom and has not been reviewed or approved by Photoroom.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across markets, with compensation described as good, competitive, or great and market-aligned ranges referenced by role and location. Feedback suggests salary discussions can be open throughout the year, reinforcing a sense of transparency.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Stock options (including BSPCE) are commonly included and described as meaningful or generous across roles and regions. Feedback suggests equity is a notable component of total compensation in this growth-stage environment.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off provisions are clearly stated in postings, including defined PTO, sick time, and local holidays. Some regions cite substantial annual leave, indicating a strong baseline for rest and recovery.
Photoroom Insights
What We Do
Photoroom is the world's 1 AI Photo Editor. Our mission: to put the power of great images into more people's hands. Photoroom elevates businesses through amazing photography. We use AI to make photo-editing feel easy and delightful, and the end results look pro. Since launching in 2019, PhotoRoom has been downloaded over 100 million times worldwide with a 4.7-star rating from 1+ million reviews. PhotoRoom was also named Editor's Choice by both Google and Apple for 2023









