People Enablement Partner

About the role

We're on a mission to make real estate transactions smarter, faster, and friction-free. Real estate is the world’s largest asset class, yet the legal processes and tools behind it remain slow, manual, and underinvested. Lawyers must review dense documents line by line and piece together information across silos, all while clients demand faster, more transparent due diligence. That's where we come in. Orbital Copilot is the AI assistant built exclusively for commercial real estate law. Developed with former practicing real estate lawyers, it accelerates complex due diligence by up to 70% while delivering legal-grade precision.

We've just raised a $60m Series B to accelerate our UK/US expansion. We're trusted by leading firms like Goodwin and BCLP to remove the busywork so legal teams can focus on what they do best: applying sharp legal judgment, delivering standout client service, and getting deals over the line faster.

Working at Orbital means joining a team that's reimagining how real estate transactions get done - moving fast, working collaboratively, and giving people the ownership to make a real impact from day one. Orbital is scaling fast as we build the AI technologies powering the future of enterprise productivity. To support this growth, we're hiring an experienced and forward-thinking People Enablement Partner to design, drive, and deliver how we support and retain world-class talent at Orbital.

Responsibilities

• Partner with managers across the business to diagnose team challenges, surfacing deep insights that will shape our People Product roadmap.
• Enable managers to confidently handle performance, conduct, and team issues through effective coaching, guidance, and accessible resources.
• Apply product management principles, such as user research, problem framing, roadmap prioritization, MVP testing and tracking outcomes, when designing new People processes.
• Design and implement scalable People Products that support employees at all stages, create measurable business outcomes, and scale effectively with the business.
• Own the People Product lifecycle end-to-end: from identifying the foundational problem and designing the solution, through to successful rollout and adoption.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on US employment matters, including multi-state compliance, FMLA administration, leaves of absence, and day-to-day employee relations.
• Identify patterns that signal where new solutions are needed and translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Find ways to measure outcomes that highlight impact and identify where we still need to improve.
• Iterate on what you build based on real-world feedback; nothing is set and forget.

Requirements

• You have relevant experience in People Partnering and/or People Operations with strength on one side combined with desire to build in the other.
• You have a strong working knowledge of US federal and state employment laws (e.g. FLSA, Title VII, ADA, ADEA, EEO, wage and hour, worker classification).
• You are comfortable with at-will employment and managing separations across multiple states, or confident picking up new state requirements as we expand.
• You have hands-on experience with FMLA administration and other leave of absence processes (e.g. state paid family leave programs, ADA accommodations, parental leave), including advising managers and supporting employees through the full leave lifecycle.
• You enjoy working closely with managers as well as building scalable people initiatives and have the ability to transform insights into real business impact.
• You have strong communication and relationship-building skills combined with good judgment and discretion when working with sensitive employee matters and issues.
• You care deeply about employee experience and business impact, and want to find ways to combine these in a meaningful way.
• You thrive in ambiguity where we don't always have all the answers and rewriting People Playbooks excites you.
• You combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach, operating comfortably across proactive projects while building foundational processes.
• You embrace technology and AI, and actively look for ways they can help you and others work smarter.
• You understand the nuances between urgent and important and how to prioritize accordingly.

Why you'll love it here

• You'll join a startup at an exciting inflection point ahead of a period of high-growth.
• You'll enjoy rethinking how a People team delivers real value through new ways of working and evidence led design.
• You'll have the opportunity to tackle meaningful challenges in a genuinely career-defining role.
• You'll be part of a collaborative, highly ambitious and friendly culture where curiosity and innovation are celebrated.