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• People Operations & Compliance Specialist

• Permanent
• Full time
• €25,000 - €27,000
• 08005, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
• People

Hello! 👋🏽

At Factorial we're looking for a new People Operations & Compliance Specialist to help us boost the company’s growth to the next level.

Ready to be part of the challenge? 🚀

The Role

We are looking for a People Operations & Compliance Specialist to join our People team and play a key role in ensuring our HR practices are legally sound, inclusive, and strategically aligned with business needs. This position requires a strong foundation in labor law, a deep understanding of equality and inclusion regulations (especially Equality Plans in Spain), and working knowledge of immigration procedures for international talent.

You will be the point of contact for ensuring legal compliance across our people operations processes, supporting audits, improving internal policies, and ensuring the company is meeting its obligations as an employer under local labor laws.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and monitor our Equality Plan, ensuring compliance with Spanish regulations and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across the organization.
• Ensure compliance with labor laws and collective agreements, and act as an internal expert on legal HR matters.
• Manage immigration and work permit processes for international employees (NIE, visas, renewals, etc.), liaising with legal advisors and government bodies when needed.
• Support the drafting, review, and maintenance of employment contracts, internal policies, and legal documentation.
• Collaborate with external legal partners (labor lawyers, legal firms) when needed.
• Monitor updates to labor legislation and proactively propose adjustments to our internal processes.
• Assist in audits, inspections, or administrative processes (e.g., SEPE, INSS, labor inspections).
• Provide support to the wider People team in employee relations cases, performance management procedures, or sensitive cases from a legal compliance perspective.
• Help maintain and improve processes related to onboarding, offboarding, and HR documentation from a legal and compliance standpoint.

Requirements

• Degree in Labor Law, Human Resources, or Social Sciences; a background as a Labor Lawyer or “Graduado Social” is highly valued.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in People Operations or an HR legal advisory role.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing Equality Plans (Planes de Igualdad) in Spain.
• Solid knowledge of Spanish labor law and social security regulations.
• Familiarity with immigration processes (permits, visas, NIEs).
• Strong attention to detail, highly organized, and proactive.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
• Fluent in Spanish and English (professional level required).

Perks of being part of our team💆

• High growth, multicultural and friendly environment 🤝
• Save expenses with Cobee 💰 and get your salary in advance with Payflow 💸
• Healthy life with Gympass 🧘🏽‍♀️
• Alan as private health insurance 🩺
• Language classes with Yolk Academy 👩🏽‍🏫
• Syra discounts, Nora & Apeteat lunch❗
• Flexible schedules ⏰, pet Friendly 🐶 and no dress code!😀

About Us 🚀

Factorial is an all-in-one HR Software fast-growing company founded in 2016. Our mission is to help SMEs automate HR workflows, centralize people data and make better business decisions. Currently, serves thousands of customers in over 60 countries all over the world and across industries, it has built a super diverse and multicultural team of over +1200 people in Barcelona, Brazil, Mexico, and US offices.🌎

Our Values

• We own it: We take responsibility for every project. We make decisions, not excuses.
• We learn and teach: We're dedicated to learning something new every day and, above all, share it.
• We partner: Every decision is a team decision. We trust each other.
• We grow fast: We act fast. We think that the worst mistake is not learning from them.

Wanna learn more about us? Check our website!