Aplazo is Mexico's leading "buy now, pay later" platform, giving consumers versátil, transparent payment solutions while helping merchants grow their sales. We're a fast-growing Series B fintech backed by top global investors, combining technology, data, and design to redefine financial access.
This role is the People counterpart for that organization—plus other support areas—owning organizational climate, compensation, performance management, and talent for the leaders it partners with.
HRBP Manager is hands‐on does three things at once. First, HRBP core: being the trusted partner technical leaders go to before making people decisions, not after. Second, organizational development: designing the frameworks and processes—leveling, career paths, manager capability, org design—that a company scaling this fast cannot improvise. Third, automation: identifying manual People processes and rebuilding them with AI so the function scales without scaling headcount.
You will run cycles, sit in calibration sessions, have hard conversations, and build the automations yourself. Reporting directly to the Head of People, with high visibility into how the company is designed and how it grows.
HRBP CORE
Drive performance management end‐to‐end
— Coach managers through low‐performance cases instead of running them for them.
Work with Talent Acquisition on workforce planning, hiring bar, and time‐to‐fill for critical technical roles. Manage sensitive cases, teams engagement plans, and exits across multiple jurisdictions with discretion and legal awareness.




Organizational development & Performance
Build career frameworks, leveling, and competency models—including for technical tracks—that managers actually use in promotion and hiring decisions.
Model options for spans of control, team structure, and restructures. Bring data and trade‐offs to the table, not preferences.
Make culture observable
— Turn values into concrete behaviors embedded in hiring, feedback, and promotion criteria—especially direct feedback culture.
Identify the manual, high‐volume work in the People function—reporting, cycle operations, onboarding, HRIS data reconciliation—and rebuild it as working automations.
Make People data self‐service
— Set standards for responsible use of AI with sensitive employee data, and bring the rest of the team along.
Track hours recovered and error rates reduced. 7+ years in Human Resources, including at least 3 as an HRBP supporting technical, product, or engineering organizations
~ Demonstrated ownership of compensation cycles, performance management cycles, and organizational climate measurement—end‐to‐end, not as support
~ Data proficiency: advanced Excel or Google Sheets, comfort with HRIS exports,



and the ability to build reporting without waiting for Data
~ Experience managing employee relations and terminations with real legal exposure
~ Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Business, Human Resources, or a related field (or equivalent demonstrable experience)

Multi‐country People experience in LATAM (labor frameworks, local compliance)
Basic SQL, Python, or no‐code automation tooling (n8n, Zapier, Make)
Familiarity with the Mexican regulatory environment for remote work and labor compliance
compensation benchmarking, performance calibration, organizational design, people analytics, HRIS administration, AI tooling and prompt design, process automation.
Spanish (native or advanced)
English (fluent) — this is a hard requirement, not a preference. Day‐to‐day work with the Technology organization happens in English.
Performance and compensation cycles land on time, with consistent calibration across teams and minimal escalation to the Head of People
There is a documented leveling and career framework for technical roles that managers use in real promotion and hiring decisions
Personal data collected during the recruitment process will be processed in accordance with the Privacy Notice of Aplaz, S.A. Aplazo does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, skin color, sex, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, social or economic status, sexual preferences, or any other condition or characteristic.

📌 Sr. HRBP Manager (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Aplazo
📍 Ciudad de México