At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.
Engine is Starling's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, the technology that was built to power Starling, and two years ago we split out as a separate business.
Starling has seen exceptional growth and success, and a large part of that is down to the fact that we have built our own modern technology from the ground up. This SaaS technology platform is now available to banks and financial institutions all around the world, enabling them to benefit from the innovative digital features, and efficient back-office processes that has helped achieve Starling's success.
As a company, everyone is expected to roll up their sleeves to help deliver great outcomes for our clients. We are an engineering led company and we’re looking for people who are will be excited by the potential for Engine’s technology to transform banking in different markets around the world. Our purpose is underpinned by five values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.
Hybrid Working
We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Engine - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of our London office, so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.
About the Role
We're looking for a highly organised and proactive Talent & Mobility Lead to join our fast-paced global SaaS company. In this crucial role, you'll be the central point for managing the allocation of our talented teams across multiple global hubs. Your primary focus will be on ensuring the right people are in the right place at the right time to support our dynamic project needs.
This is a hands-on operational role with oversight and stakeholder management responsibilities across HR, Legal, Finance, and Commercial leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Staffing: Coordinate and manage the resourcing for various projects, ranging from a couple of weeks to long-term engagements. This includes identifying and assigning internal staff based on project requirements, skill sets, and availability.
- Secondments & Relocations: Facilitate the end-to-end process for employee secondments and relocations between our global offices. This involves coordinating logistics, preparing necessary documentation, and ensuring a smooth transition for the employee.
- Global Mobility & Compliance: Act as a key liaison with our Immigration and Legal teams to ensure all international travel, secondments, and relocations are managed in full compliance with local laws and company policies. You will work to ensure the safety and security of our employees while they are on company business.
- Stakeholder Communication: Maintain regular communication with project managers, team leads, and employees to understand staffing needs, provide updates on assignments, and address any concerns.
- Resource Management: Track employee availability, skills, and project assignments using our internal systems to maintain an accurate, up-to-date view of our global workforce.
- Vendor Management: Primary liaison with those vendors that facilitate the global mobility process including (immigration, tax and payroll advisors; PEO partners; relocation and destination service providers); manage SLAs, pricing, escalation, and quality controls
- Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline and improve our staffing and mobility processes to enhance efficiency and employee experience.Developing, documenting, and implementing the Global Engine Mobility strategy and policy
Requirements
What You'll Bring: Qualifications & Skills
- Proven experience in a staffing, resourcing, or HR coordination role, preferably within a fast-paced, global organization.
- Strong understanding of project-based resourcing and the ability to manage multiple, competing priorities.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal teams and external partners.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a high level of organization.
- A proactive and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to anticipate needs and act independently.
Desirables:
- Familiarity with immigration and international travel processes is a plus.
- Experience with resource management software is desirable.
Interview Process
Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:
- First interview: ~ 45 minutes with one of the team
- Second Interview: ~ 1 hour with two of the team
- Final Interview: ~ 45 minutes with two members of senior management
Benefits
- 33 days holiday (including public holidays, which you can take when it works best for you)
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
- Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing
About Us
You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren’t sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We’re on a mission to radically reshape banking – and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we’re proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.
Engine by Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Engine by Starling are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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Top Skills
What We Do
Hello, we’re Starling.
Banking was broken – so we decided to fix it. The vision? Fast technology, fair service and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.
We built Britain’s first digital bank.
One hard-won banking licence later, we set about giving people a new way to spend, save and manage their money (and take better care of the planet, too).
We’re changing banking for good.
Back then, we were obsessed with unravelling the knotty world of finance and solving people’s problems rather than selling them stuff. We still are.
Since then, we’ve grown. A lot.
Over three million accounts (and four account types!). A team of thousands. Headquartered in London with offices in Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester and Southampton. Five years voted Which? Recommended Provider and Britain's Best Banking Brand. Still zero branches.
Our culture is open, inclusive and focused on solving real customer problems, with an emphasis on doing the right thing, even when it’s not always the easy thing. From our approach to working together and sustainability to how we build our products, our decisions need to make the world – and Starling – a better place to be.
Everyone at Starling is essential to our mission, which is really quite simple: to solve our customer’s problems – and build the best bank in the world!
And now we're providing Starling to other banks, via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) proposition through our subsidiary Engine, using the proprietary technology platform that it uses to power our own bank.
