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Sr. People Business Partner Lead, GTM

171k – 250kFoster City, CAHybrid10+ YOE
Summary

Strategic People Business Partner supporting GTM leaders (Sales, Marketing, CS) with org design, talent programs, performance management, and scalable People frameworks in a fast-moving AI-native company.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders across Sales, Marketing, Partnerships, Customer Success, and broader GTM functions, helping scale high-performing teams during rapid growth.
  • Coach leaders through organizational design, workforce planning, team effectiveness, leadership development, and scaling challenges.
  • Partner with leaders to navigate performance management, compensation discussions, promotions, leveling, employee relations matters, and organizational change.
  • Drive organizational health through direct feedback, thoughtful leadership partnership, and strong business and talent judgment.
  • Support and operationalize core talent programs, including performance cycles, calibration discussions, promotion processes, and manager enablement efforts.
  • Reinforce high performance standards, accountability, and clarity around expectations, feedback, and growth across the organization.
  • Partner on org design and team structure decisions, including spans, layers, role clarity, and manager effectiveness.
  • Use People insights, business context, and organizational data to proactively identify risks, friction points, and opportunities for improvement.
  • Build lightweight but scalable People frameworks, manager guidance, operating mechanisms, and repeatable processes that improve consistency and effectiveness across the business.
  • Partner closely with Talent Programs, Recruiting, Total Rewards, and People Operations to deliver a cohesive and scalable People experience.
  • Contribute to company-wide manager enablement, leadership programming, and People team operational excellence initiatives.
  • Leverage AI and automation to improve speed, quality, scalability, and consistency across People workflows and manager support.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, improve operational efficiency, and build scalable tools and resources that increase leverage across the People function.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive HR, HRBP, or People Partner experience in high-growth environments
  • Strong experience supporting GTM organizations such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, or Revenue Operations
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and coach senior leaders
  • Deep experience with performance management, calibrations, promotions, and organizational design
  • Strong employee relations judgment and ability to navigate complex people situations thoughtfully and directly
  • Strong operator mindset with ability to balance strategy and execution
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and move quickly with high ownership
  • Strong business acumen and organizational judgment
  • Excitement around AI, automation, and modernizing People functions

Nice to Haves

  • Experience in hypergrowth technology companies
  • Exposure to compensation planning and leveling frameworks
  • Exposure to global People programs (Canada, LATAM, EMEA, or APAC)

Tools & Tech Stack

  • HRIS / People Systems: Rippling, Workday
  • Performance & Feedback, Listening Systems: Lattice
  • Collaboration & Communication: Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, Zoom
Skills
RipplingWorkdayLatticeSlackGoogle WorkspaceNotionZoomPerformance ManagementOrganizational DesignEmployee Relations
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