# Senior People Operations Business Partner

**Company:** [Ai2](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai2)
**Location:** Seattle, WA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $120k – $179k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Talent Management, Workforce Planning, Employee Relations, Change Management, Hr Analytics, Talent Development, Employee Value Proposition, Compliance, Policy Development, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Serve as Senior HR Business Partner to organizational leaders at AI2, designing and executing talent management, workforce planning, culture, and employee experience programs. Requires 8+ years progressive HR experience, strong data-driven and change management skills, and breadth across HR functions.

## Job Description

## Who You Are
You are a senior human resources professional with a passion for partnering with clients to bring talent solutions to their organizational needs. You are an enthusiastic collaborator, with great ambition and passion for your work. You bring strong business and organizational development acumen. Our ideal candidate has a strong interest in human resources business partner work as well as people program design and management.

You bring:
- **Passion for HR**: Proven experience in a senior HR role, with a deep understanding of best practices and innovative approaches.
- **Connection**: The ability to build trust and connect with diverse teams and our team members at all levels of our organization.
- **Creative Thinking**: A true out-of-the-box thinker who can bring new and exciting ideas and strategies to the table.
- **Change Agent**: A love for iterative improvement to operations and experience designing and successfully executing change management.
- **Optimism**: A motivational team member with a positive attitude, ready to take Ai2’s culture to the next level.
- **Data Driven Approach**: You surface opportunities using data and analytics to inform and influence decisions. You get that it matters what we measure, and we should measure what matters.

## Who We Are
The People Operations team at Ai2 is responsible for building and executing Ai2’s recruiting, talent management, compensation and benefits, policy and compliance, learning and development, workforce management, and organizational design practices. Like the rest of Ai2, we are an open, collaborative team that thrives in Ai2’s start-up culture. We are a highly collaborative, tight-knit team who work together seamlessly. There is no task that is below anyone on the team.

## Your Next Challenge
You will operate as the Sr. Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to the organizational leaders of Ai2. In partnership with Ai2 leaders and the Sr. People Operations Manager, you’ll be responsible for creating, developing and executing programs that enhance our culture and the employee experience of a talented team pursuing an extraordinary set of scientific and engineering challenges. You’ll share in the ultimate responsibility for creating a great place to work and where our team members thrive in a collaborative and open environment. You will collaborate with specialist teams like legal, finance, communications, program management office, and People Operations specialists to drive decisions and programs that attract, retain, and grow outstanding talent at Ai2.

**Senior People Operations Partner**
The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:
- Build trust and strong relationships with executive, senior, and frontline managers; strategically action opportunities to address skill gaps and up-level management talent.
- Operate talent assessment and talent management for the company; design and facilitate talent development, talent movement, and workforce planning programming.
- Build and maintain strong, sustainable ties to managers, mentors, and employees in a way that positions HR as a strategic advisor and representative of Ai2’s “voice of employee.”
- Develop Ai2’s first Employee Value Proposition consistent with Ai2’s culture, employee experience, and philosophy of work; oversee revisions to employee engagement activities and partner with Recruiting on driving consistent, compelling employer branding.
- Oversee–and proactively address opportunities–in compliance, employment law, policy definition, and employee relations; outline continuous processes for inspection of related mechanisms.
- Counsel team members at all levels on issues related to areas of responsibility.
- Identify new areas of responsibility, perform assigned duties, and collaborate on various Operations and People Operations projects as needed.

## What You’ll Need
**Basic Requirements**
- Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of progressive human resources (or relevant) experience; relevant advanced degree may substitute for equivalent years of direct experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently identify need for, design, implement, and iterate people/talent programs.
- Both acumen and passion for people/talent data, metrics, and measurement.
- Familiarity with common operational improvement frameworks (e.g., Six Sigma, Toyota Production System, Kaizen, Agile or Lean development, 5 Whys, etc.).
- Breadth of experience across multiple functional areas of human resources.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrable ability to influence at all levels of an organization.
- High degree of confidentiality, curiosity, and objectivity.
- Must be able to demonstrate Ai2s core values of “Innovate Together” and “Truly Open”.

**Preferred Qualifications**
- Relevant advanced degrees, coursework, certifications, training, etc.
- Experience working with technical and/or sciences talent.
- History of working across highly diverse organizations and delivering results through effective stakeholder management.
- Previous mentorship experience focused on growing junior HR talent across functional areas.
- Interest in designing, testing, and articulating decision-making frameworks.

## Compensation
Our base salary range is $119,520 - $179,280 and in addition we have generous bonus plans to provide a competitive compensation package.

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