Human Resources Lead APAC (Contract)
Spotify
Human Resources Lead APAC (Contract)
Spotify
full-time
Posted: December 19, 2025
Number of Vacancies: 1
Job Description
We are looking for an HR Lead to join our Global HR team, based in Singapore and overseeing our markets in JAPAC. This role is both strategic and hands-on, partnering with business leaders to shape our people strategy locally while ensuring a high-quality, consistent employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
You will play a key role in helping our business navigate growth, organizational change, workforce planning, and people development. You’ll support leaders and teams through our core HR processes while keeping us aligned with global ways of working and compliant with local regulations. As part of a global HR community, you will collaborate with HR Business Partners, Employment Legal, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion, and other partners to deliver a world-class people experience.
This is a 9-months contract.
Locations
- Singapore
Salary
Salary details available upon request
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
95,000 - 155,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Build trust quicklyintermediate
- Communicate clearlyintermediate
- Approach challenges with a positive and proactive approachintermediate
- Balance critical thinking with operational executionintermediate
- Prioritize wellintermediate
- Stay flexible in fast-moving environmentsintermediate
- Resourceful in finding answersintermediate
- Collaborativeintermediate
- Inclusiveintermediate
- Open to diverse perspectivesintermediate
- Curiosity to learn moreintermediate
Required Qualifications
- At least 7 years of dynamic HR experience in regional roles such as HR Lead, HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, Employee Relations Manager, People Operations Lead or HRBP (experience)
- Experience working in global or matrixed organizations (experience)
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and supporting leadership team initiatives (experience)
- Hands-on knowledge of employment practices and labor regulations in key JAPAC markets across Singapore, Australia, Jakarta, Bangkok and Korea (experience)
- Comfortable navigating change and ambiguity, while keeping teams aligned and supported (experience)
- Cultural agility and experience working across multiple JAPAC markets (experience)
- Able to travel as required (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to media or technology environments (experience)
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders and the JAPAC & SAMEA HRBP to build a positive, inclusive, high-performance culture
- Translate business priorities into people activities for attraction, development, engagement, and retention
- Mentor and influence managers to build leadership capability and drive performance
- Use data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and recommend pragmatic solutions and align global strategies to local market realities
- Act as change leader, supporting teams through organisation changes and transformation efforts
- Partner with global teams, HRBP and local leaders to help localise and implement initiatives to support manager capability, individual skill development and team efficiencies for an AI ready future
- Drive the full employee lifecycle, ensuring smooth onboarding through to offboarding and everything in between
- Support and action annual HR processes including talent reviews, performance calibrations, compensation cycles, engagement initiatives, and reorganizations along with HRBP
- Provide practical, hands-on support for employee relations and policy matters, working closely with Employment Legal when needed
- Ensure local compliance with labor law requirements while balancing global standards and local nuance
- Review and suggest improvements to local processes to enhance scalability, efficiency and employee experience
- Handle all local documents and government paperwork required for the region together with the broader JAPAC HR team
Benefits
- general: Flexibility to work where you work best
- general: Some in-person meetings but allows for flexibility to work from home
- general: Come to the office 2 to 3 times per week
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Human Resources Lead APAC (Contract)
Spotify
Human Resources Lead APAC (Contract)
Spotify
full-time
Posted: December 19, 2025
Number of Vacancies: 1
Job Description
We are looking for an HR Lead to join our Global HR team, based in Singapore and overseeing our markets in JAPAC. This role is both strategic and hands-on, partnering with business leaders to shape our people strategy locally while ensuring a high-quality, consistent employee experience throughout the employee lifecycle.
You will play a key role in helping our business navigate growth, organizational change, workforce planning, and people development. You’ll support leaders and teams through our core HR processes while keeping us aligned with global ways of working and compliant with local regulations. As part of a global HR community, you will collaborate with HR Business Partners, Employment Legal, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion, and other partners to deliver a world-class people experience.
This is a 9-months contract.
Locations
- Singapore
Salary
Salary details available upon request
Estimated Salary Rangemedium confidence
95,000 - 155,000 USD / yearly
Source: ai estimated
* This is an estimated range based on market data and may vary based on experience and qualifications.
Skills Required
- Build trust quicklyintermediate
- Communicate clearlyintermediate
- Approach challenges with a positive and proactive approachintermediate
- Balance critical thinking with operational executionintermediate
- Prioritize wellintermediate
- Stay flexible in fast-moving environmentsintermediate
- Resourceful in finding answersintermediate
- Collaborativeintermediate
- Inclusiveintermediate
- Open to diverse perspectivesintermediate
- Curiosity to learn moreintermediate
Required Qualifications
- At least 7 years of dynamic HR experience in regional roles such as HR Lead, HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, Employee Relations Manager, People Operations Lead or HRBP (experience)
- Experience working in global or matrixed organizations (experience)
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and supporting leadership team initiatives (experience)
- Hands-on knowledge of employment practices and labor regulations in key JAPAC markets across Singapore, Australia, Jakarta, Bangkok and Korea (experience)
- Comfortable navigating change and ambiguity, while keeping teams aligned and supported (experience)
- Cultural agility and experience working across multiple JAPAC markets (experience)
- Able to travel as required (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to media or technology environments (experience)
Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders and the JAPAC & SAMEA HRBP to build a positive, inclusive, high-performance culture
- Translate business priorities into people activities for attraction, development, engagement, and retention
- Mentor and influence managers to build leadership capability and drive performance
- Use data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and recommend pragmatic solutions and align global strategies to local market realities
- Act as change leader, supporting teams through organisation changes and transformation efforts
- Partner with global teams, HRBP and local leaders to help localise and implement initiatives to support manager capability, individual skill development and team efficiencies for an AI ready future
- Drive the full employee lifecycle, ensuring smooth onboarding through to offboarding and everything in between
- Support and action annual HR processes including talent reviews, performance calibrations, compensation cycles, engagement initiatives, and reorganizations along with HRBP
- Provide practical, hands-on support for employee relations and policy matters, working closely with Employment Legal when needed
- Ensure local compliance with labor law requirements while balancing global standards and local nuance
- Review and suggest improvements to local processes to enhance scalability, efficiency and employee experience
- Handle all local documents and government paperwork required for the region together with the broader JAPAC HR team
Benefits
- general: Flexibility to work where you work best
- general: Some in-person meetings but allows for flexibility to work from home
- general: Come to the office 2 to 3 times per week
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