Assistant Director, Human Resources Business Partner

Scorpion Therapeutics; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 141,000; Full time

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Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics in Carlsbad, CA is seeking an Assistant Director, HRBP to partner with leaders on people strategies across talent, performance, and employee relations. You will guide workforce planning, succession, and readiness for product milestones while coaching leaders on development and effective people management.

The role requires strong data-driven decision making, confidentiality, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business administration, or related field.
• Typically 8+ years related experience with a bachelor’s, or 6+ years with a master’s.
• HRBP experience across talent, performance, employee relations, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Experience advising leaders in complex, matrixed, changing organizations.
• Strong coaching, communication, influencing, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to use workforce data/analytics and maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Partner with GPS&O leaders to translate priorities into people plans and recommendations.
• Support workforce planning and organization design (role clarity, reporting relationships, team structure, ways of working).
• Identify people-related risks/opportunities and advise on readiness for product launches and commercialization milestones.
• Coach leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance expectations, feedback, development, difficult conversations, and team dynamics.
• Support talent reviews, succession planning, career development, retention planning, goal setting, and performance management.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on recruiting priorities, selection decisions, and onboarding for important hires.
• Use engagement data to develop focused, measurable action plans.
• Advise on employee relations, policy interpretation, performance concerns, workplace conduct, conflict resolution, and investigations (with ER/Legal/HR leadership as needed).
• Support reorgs, role changes, process improvements, and workforce transitions; plan and communicate change.
• Use workforce data/HR metrics to identify issues, evaluate options, and provide practical recommendations.
• Coordinate HR support across Total Rewards, Talent, L&D, TA, HR Operations, HRIS/Analytics, ER, and others; improve HR processes/tools.

Skills

HR Business Partner

Coaching

Communication

Influencing

Facilitation

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Assistant Director, Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP)

Responsibilities

• Partner with GPS&O leaders and managers to translate business priorities into people plans and recommendations.
• Support workforce planning and organization design (role clarity, reporting relationships, team structure, ways of working).
• Identify people-related risks/opportunities and advise on readiness for product launches and commercialization milestones.
• Coach leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance expectations, feedback, development, difficult conversations, and team dynamics.
• Support talent reviews, succession planning, career development, retention planning, goal setting, and performance management.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on recruiting priorities, selection decisions, and onboarding for important hires.
• Use engagement data to develop focused, measurable action plans.
• Advise on employee relations, policy interpretation, performance concerns, workplace conduct, conflict resolution, and investigations (with ER/Legal/HR leadership as needed).
• Support reorgs, role changes, process improvements, and workforce transitions; plan and communicate change.
• Use workforce data/HR metrics to identify issues, evaluate options, and provide practical recommendations.
• Coordinate HR support across Total Rewards, Talent, L&D, TA, HR Operations, HRIS/Analytics, ER, and others; improve HR processes/tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business administration, or related field (or equivalent).
• Typically 8+ years related experience with a bachelor’s, or 6+ years with a master’s.
• HR Business Partner experience across talent, performance, employee relations, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Experience advising leaders in complex, matrixed, changing organizations.
• Strong coaching, communication, influencing, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to use workforce data/analytics and develop practical solutions; sound judgment and confidentiality.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work autonomously.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology/life sciences/healthcare.
• Experience supporting Commercial/Medical Affairs/product strategy/market insights/analytics or other customer- or science-facing functions.
• Experience with product launches, commercialization, organizational growth, or operating-model change.
• Master’s degree and/or HR certification (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR).
• HRIS/workforce analytics and compensation/job-leveling experience.

Benefits

• Pay scale: $115,000–$141,000.