Senior People Business Partner
Partners with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders on organizational effectiveness, manager coaching, compensation, retention, talent planning, and employee relations. Requires 7+ years of progressive experience, strong data-driven judgment, and experience in high-growth environments.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders on organizational design, talent planning, team effectiveness, and workforce decisions.
- Coach managers on performance, feedback, career development, difficult conversations, and effective management practices.
- Support compensation and equity planning, including reviews, allocation decisions, internal consistency, and standardization.
- Use people data and business context to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across retention, performance, engagement, and talent.
- Develop and support retention strategies for critical talent and teams.
- Build relationships with supported teams and proactively surface organizational risks and opportunities.
- Collaborate with People, Finance, Legal, Talent, and business teams to resolve issues and move work forward.
- Build scalable processes that improve consistency, decision-making, and manager effectiveness.
- Maintain judgment, discretion, and confidentiality in people-related matters.
Requirements
- 7+ years of progressive experience, including at least 3 years in a similar role.
- Experience supporting senior leaders in a high-growth, fast-paced, or midsize startup environment.
- Experience with HR tools, automation, and AI, including building self-service resources and automating repeatable work.
- Strong organizational and project-planning skills, with the ability to structure ambiguous work, align stakeholders, and drive completion.
- Experience supporting and standardizing compensation, equity, performance, retention, talent management, and employee relations.
- Strong manager coaching skills and the ability to reinforce management standards.
- Business acumen and the ability to use data to forecast problems and drive decisions.
- Track record of owning ambiguous problems through resolution.
- Ability to operate independently, move quickly, and work cross-functionally.
- Strong communication, judgment, and influencing skills across levels.
- Comfort moving between strategy, execution, and day-to-day problem solving.
- Hybrid schedule requiring 3 days per week at the Mountain View headquarters.
Compensation
- Annual salary range: $120,000–$160,000.
Skills
Hr Tools, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Compensation Planning, Equity Planning, Performance Management, Retention Strategy, Talent Management, Employee Relations, Manager Coaching, People Analytics, Organizational Design, Project Planning, Workforce Planning
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