Hybrid in Barcelona
· Start: ASAP About Start hr Start hr is a boutique HR consultancy helping startups and growing SMEs build the people foundations behind sustainable growth. Acting as an extension of your leadership team, we provide fractional HR expertise that combines strategic guidance with hands-on execution at every stage of growth. We help founders and CEOs build the structures, leadership capability and people practices that enable sustainable growth and confident scaling. Our motto: Your business, your focus. Your people, our expertise. The Role As a HR Consultant, you will partner with a portfolio of clients to deliver seamless day-to-day HR support and help build scalable people operations practices. Working closely with founders and managers, you'll ensure operational excellence across the employee lifecycle while supporting clients as they grow. You'll also contribute to the continuous development of start hr by helping improve our methodologies, tools and ways of working. What you will do
· Manage People Operations for a portfolio of assigned clients.
· Build trusted relationships with founders, managers and employees.
· Deliver operational HR support across the employee lifecycle.
· Implement scalable HR processes and best practices, and advise founders on people decisions.
· Support recruitment and HR technology implementation.
· Contribute to the evolution of start hr's methodologies, resources and internal initiatives.



What you will bring
· 5+ years of experience in HR, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Recruitment, or HR Generalist roles.
· Experience working in startups, scale-ups, or other fast-paced environments, ideally combined with experience in more established corporate organisations.
· Strong understanding of HR Operations and employee lifecycle best practices, and familiarity with Spanish employment law
· Proactive, organised, and solution-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across different clients.
· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
· Fluent in English and Spanish (any other European language is a plus).
· Experience supporting several teams or clients in parallel (consulting, agency or fractional work) is a strong plus.

What we offer
· A permanent full-time employment contract. You have the variety of consulting, with the security of being employed.
· A small, collaborative team: weekly team days a coworking in Gràcia and peers to think things through with, so you’re never the only HR person on your own.
· Varied clients and sectors, with real impact on fast-growing companies.
· The chance to help shape a growing company and its methodology, with the team and with our founder.
· Hybrid set-up: a mix of on-site with clients, a team day at the coworking and work from home. Based in Barcelona.

📌 HR Consultant (Barcelona)
🏢 start hr
📍 Barcelona