HR Business Partner, Education Vertical

About the role

Codeway's Education Vertical is on a mission to build the next generation of education products and help democratize learning with AI. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how people learn, and we're building the team that will shape what that future looks like. Our flagship app Learna recently claimed the #1 spot among worldwide education apps in terms of downloads, with a few other exciting EdTech apps already scaling and several stealth projects in the pipeline. We're already a team of 80+ people running at $100M+ ARR with tremendous year-over-year growth, and we have ambitious plans to scale from here. It's one of the most exciting verticals to work in within the powerhouse that Codeway is today. As an HR Business Partner for the Education Vertical, you will act as a strategic advisor to business leaders, with a strong focus on elevating management practices, driving compensation excellence, and shaping people strategy. This is a role based in our new Barcelona HQ, working directly with the Education Vertical CEO and business leaders, while staying closely connected with our Istanbul office and teams to ensure strong alignment across locations. You will play a key role in building scalable, high-quality HR foundations, coaching managers, strengthening performance and salary review processes, and partnering closely with HR Operations to ensure consistent, data-driven execution across the employee lifecycle. This role requires high autonomy, ownership, and a proactive mindset; you won't just execute processes, but challenge the status quo and bring forward better ways of doing things.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to translate business strategy into clear people priorities, with a strong focus on manager effectiveness, team performance, and retention.
• Work closely with the Education Vertical CEO, Barcelona leadership, and Istanbul teams to support strong coordination across locations.
• Work closely with Codeway's HQ HR Team to align vertical HR practices with HQ guidelines, and help contribute to and shape the HQ agenda by extracting best practices from the vertical.
• Build and embed best practices for managers: performance conversations, feedback culture, goal setting, and team health, raising the overall quality of leadership across the organisation.
• Own and continuously improve performance and salary review cycles, ensuring fairness, consistency, and strong calibration across teams.
• Drive and evolve compensation & benefits practices: benchmarking, internal equity, salary frameworks, and decision-making guidelines.
• Act as a coach and thought partner to managers, supporting them in complex situations, developing their leadership capabilities, and holding a high bar for people management.
• Lead complex employee relations topics with a balanced, pragmatic, and compliant approach.
• Collaborate closely with HR Operations to ensure policies, processes, and data are scalable, consistent, and well-executed.
• Use data and insights to challenge decisions, identify gaps, and propose actionable improvements across people initiatives.
• Proactively identify organisational needs and drive initiatives that improve effectiveness, engagement, and long-term scalability.
• Help shape people practices that work effectively across our Barcelona and Istanbul teams.
• Why This Role
• You'll also play a key role in Codeway's next phase of growth in Barcelona, while staying closely connected to our Istanbul roots and existing people systems.
• Your Profile
• 3-5 years of experience in an HR Business Partner or strong HR generalist role, ideally in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Solid experience in compensation, salary reviews, and performance management p

Additional Information

About Codeway Codeway is a global consumer tech company with more than 400M users worldwide. Since 2020, we've built and scaled 60+ mobile apps across creativity, productivity, wellness, language learning, and entertainment. Our flagship apps - Retake AI, Cleanup, Learna, and DramaPops - and many of them lead their categories globally. In 2024, we became the most downloaded app publisher on iOS, driven by cutting-edge AI research, sharp data-driven execution, and a relentless focus on product and marketing. We're a team of 300+ people across İstanbul and Barcelona who bring curiosity, passion, trust, and ownership to everything we build. Recognized as a #1 LinkedIn Top Startup and a Great Place to Work in Europe, Codeway is where ambitious people do their life's best work. We're building the next generation of consumer tech and reimagining what mobile apps can be. This is Codeway. This is our way. Join us.

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