# Senior HR Business Partner

**Company:** [Deepgram](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/deepgram)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $130k – $162k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Employee Relations, Performance Management, Manager Coaching, Hr Business Partner, Employment Law Compliance, Immigration Sponsorship, H-1B, Green Card Sponsorship, Change Management, Talent Planning
**Posted:** 2026-06-15

> Fixed-term Senior HRBP providing maternity leave coverage. Partners with leaders on employee relations, performance management, manager coaching, compliance, and immigration support in a remote-first AI startup.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

### Employee Relations & Manager Support
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations matters, including performance concerns, interpersonal issues, investigations, and complex workplace scenarios.
- Coach managers through difficult conversations, feedback delivery, performance management, and documentation.
- Provide consistent, fair, and legally sound guidance across key employee lifecycle moments.

### Business & Leadership Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on people-related risks, decisions, and trade-offs.
- Partner with the Head of People to maintain alignment between company strategy and people practices.
- Identify patterns and systemic issues early and recommend practical, upstream interventions.
- Serve as a change partner to leaders, helping operationalize organizational changes to drive understanding, adoption, and trust.

### Performance & Manager Effectiveness
- Support ongoing performance management processes, goal-setting, feedback cycles, and manager capability building.
- Partner with leaders on team structure, talent planning, and ways of working that enable strong performance.
- Help managers navigate underperformance, role clarity challenges, and organizational change.
- Reinforce a culture of high performance without unnecessary bureaucracy.

### Process, Systems & Scale
- Maintain and apply existing People processes, templates, documentation, and manager resources.
- Partner on tools and workflows that improve consistency, efficiency, and employee experience.
- Balance compliance, speed, and sound judgment as the company continues to grow.
- Support change initiatives (e.g., policy updates, process shifts), including re-education, leader enablement, and reinforcement.

### Compliance & Administration
- Partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and international employment laws.
- Support leave administration, policy application, and complex employee situations.
- Help ensure People practices remain defensible, consistent, and aligned with company values.

### Immigration & Mobility Support
- Serve as the primary HR point of contact for immigration matters, partnering with recruiters to assess visa needs and timelines during the hiring process.
- Manage the day-to-day relationship with the external immigration law firm.
- Support employees through immigration processes (H-1B, transfers, green card sponsorship, etc.), providing guidance on timelines and next steps.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, and People Ops to ensure immigration sponsorship decisions are consistent, compliant, and aligned with company policy.

## It’s Important to Us That You Have
- 7–10+ years of HR experience, including at least 5 years in an HR Business Partner role within high-growth or complex environments.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to understand context quickly, challenge assumptions when needed, and guide leaders through tough trade-offs.
- Deep experience in employee relations, performance management, and manager coaching.
- Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in a new environment and deliver results with limited onboarding time.
- Comfort operating synchronously and asynchronously in a remote-first, fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of discretion.

## Nice to Have
- Experience supporting distributed, remote-first teams.
- Prior work in a fast-growing startup or tech environment.
- Prior experience in contract or interim HR roles.

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