# Senior Director, People Partners

**Company:** [Honor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/honor)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** People Ops
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** hr business partnership, Employee Relations, employment law, wage and hour law, Organizational Design, Change Management, workforce analytics, hr data analysis, Performance Management, succession planning, structured interviews, shrm-scp, sphr
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Leads the strategic HRBP function, advising senior leaders on organizational design, manager effectiveness, employee relations, workforce insights, and scalable people systems. The role manages and develops an HRBP team and requires 10–12+ years of progressive HR experience, a bachelor's degree, and multi-state US employment-law expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Lead the evolution of the HRBP function as a strategic organizational architecture practice.
- Lead, coach, and develop a small team of HRBPs, establishing operating principles, standards, tools, playbooks, and decision frameworks.
- Raise manager and leadership quality through manager capability building, feedback loops, coaching infrastructure, succession planning, and leadership bench development.
- Partner with business leaders on organizational design, including team structure, role clarity, decision rights, business alignment, change management, and organizational agility.
- Identify systemic people and organizational challenges and build scalable, repeatable, data-informed solutions.
- Use HR data, workforce analytics, and emerging technologies to identify trends, mitigate risk, and improve engagement, retention, performance, and organizational effectiveness.
- Lead employee relations for the fully remote headquarters team and resolve issues with sound judgment.
- Apply multi-state wage-and-hour knowledge and employment-law best practices; engage additional expertise when appropriate.
- Support rigorous performance management by enabling managers to set expectations, provide feedback, and address performance issues promptly.
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to improve hiring criteria, structured interviews, and calibration.

## Requirements

- 10–12+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant experience in a senior HRBP or HR leadership role.
- Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred.
- Experience supporting mixed workforces, including knowledge workers and operations, call center, or field staff, in a regulated or compliance-sensitive environment.
- Fluency in multi-state US employment law and demonstrated experience navigating wage-and-hour complexity for non-exempt populations.
- Experience in a growth-stage or rapidly scaling company, including building or rebuilding HR infrastructure.
- Experience translating business strategy into organizational design and helping leaders navigate restructuring decisions.
- Track record of building manager capability, beyond delivering training.
- Strong analytical capability and experience using HR data and workforce insights to identify trends, inform strategy, and drive measurable outcomes.
- Comfort leveraging technology and data to build workflows, analyze data, and scale HR capacity.
- Ability to communicate in clear, structured, written narratives that distill complexity and support decisions.
- Professional HR certification such as SPHR or SHRM-SCP is a plus.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Master's degree.
- SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification.
- Strong pattern recognition, systems thinking, business credibility, and proactive problem-solving abilities.

## Work Arrangement

- Fully remote.

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