Principal HR Business Partner

EngineersOfAI; Montreal; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Behavox seeks a Principal HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders in shaping people strategies that drive performance, scalability, and sustainable growth. Reporting to the COO, you’ll advise on org design, workforce planning, talent management, and employee relations.

This hybrid role requires one day in the office and focuses on leading complex employee relations, leveraging analytics, and implementing scalable programs to strengthen organizational capability and business

Qualifications

• Senior HR leader with deep business acumen and advisory capability.
• Experience designing organizations, planning workforce, and driving change initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and regulatory frameworks.
• Expertise in performance management, development, and succession planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead workforce planning and organizational design to support growth and effectiveness.
• Manage post-merger workforce integration and enterprise change initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations and organizational challenges, using analytics to guide decisions.

Skills

Strategic HR partnering

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Employee relations & law

Job description

About Behavox:

Behavox is shaping the future for how businesses harness their most important raw material - data. Our mission is bold: Organize enterprise data into actionable information that protects and promotes the business growth of multinational companies around the world.

From managing enterprise risk and compliance to maximizing revenue and value, our data operating platform presents a widespread opportunity to build multilingual, AI/ML-based solutions that activate data for every function within a global enterprise.

Our approach is unique, and it’s validated by our customers who tell us to keep forging ahead because no one else is aggregating, analyzing, and acting on data to uncover opportunities or solve problems quite the way we are.

We are looking for fearless innovators who have an insatiable appetite for building what no one has built before.

This is a hybrid role with 1 day in the office.

About the Role:

The Principal HR Business Partner is a senior individual contributor responsible for partnering with business leaders to execute people strategies that enable organizational performance, scalability, and sustainable growth. The role applies deep business acumen and HR expertise to advise leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, employee relations, and organizational effectiveness, ensuring people practices support evolving business priorities.

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Principal HR Business Partner independently partners with senior leaders to deliver enterprise people initiatives while ensuring alignment with global frameworks and applicable local employment requirements. The role leads workforce planning, organizational design, post-merger workforce integration, and enterprise change initiatives. It independently manages complex employee relations matters, provides expert guidance on organizational and people-related challenges, leverages workforce analytics to inform decision-making, and implements scalable people programs that strengthen organizational capability and business performance.

What You'll Bring:

1. Strategic Human Resources Business Partnering — Applies deep understanding of business strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce needs to align people initiatives with business objectives and provide trusted advisory support to senior leaders.
2. Organizational Design and Workforce Planning — Owns the application of organizational design principles, workforce planning methodologies, and operating model changes to support business growth, organizational evolution, and business effectiveness.
3. Employment Law and Employee Relations — Maintains expert knowledge of employment legislation and regulatory frameworks, independently managing complex employee relations matters while mitigating organizational risk.
4. Talent Management and Organizational Development — Applies expertise in performance management, career development, succession planning, leadership enablement, and organizational capability develo