Global VP, People & Employee Relations

Affirm; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 340,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

ESPP

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a transformative leader to helm global People Business Partners and Employee Relations. This role leads the PBP and ER functions, partnering with the CPO, PLT, and XLT to shape enterprise-wide talent decisions and organizational changes.

As a remote-first company, you will build high-performing teams, drive workforce strategy, and guide leadership through major changes while ensuring consistent, compliant practices across the business.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive People leadership experience, including in complex, global technology organizations at scale.
• Significant experience leading a global PBP organization and building high-performing PBP teams.
• Experience leading Employee Relations, including sensitive investigations, executive-level matters, and complex employment decisions in partnership with Legal.
• Demonstrated experience partnering directly with C-suite executives, building trust while maintaining independent judgment.
• Deep expertise in organizational consulting, organizational effectiveness, executive coaching, and strategic workforce planning.
• Strong business acumen and learning agility, with the ability to quickly understand complex businesses and form an independent point of view on organizational needs.
• Sharp talent judgment, with the ability to assess executive capability and advise on consequential talent decisions.
• A demonstrated ability to anticipate organizational and workforce risks and opportunities before they become obvious, connecting patterns across the business.
• Outstanding executive presence and emotional intelligence, with the ability to challenge constructively and navigate difficult conversations.
• Sound judgment and integrity in navigating sensitive people decisions, balancing business needs, employee impact, and legal/reputational risk.

Responsibilities

• Define the strategy, structure, and operating model for the global PBP and ER functions, challenging legacy assumptions and redesigning roles, capabilities, and ways of working where needed.
• Build high-performing PBP and ER teams through talent decisions, development, coaching, and selective external hiring; set clear standards and accountability for how the teams operate and the impact they deliver.
• Build independent, trusted relationships with each XLT member, serving as a strategic advisor on enterprise-wise and complex functional leadership, talent, and organizational decisions.
• Develop a deep understanding of affirm's business, strategy, and operating model, and use it to anticipate enterprise-wide organizational, workforce, and talent implications ahead of need.
• Partner with XLT on workforce strategy, including the size, composition, capabilities, and deployment of talent, and identify how technology, AI, and new operating models can increase leverage and effectiveness.
• Help leaders design organizations and operating models that clarify accountability, increase speed, and align resources to affirm’s top priorities.
• Raise the quality of leadership and talent decisions company-wide through talent planning, succession, executive assessment, and performance management.
• Guide leaders through significant organizational change, building the alignment and execution discipline needed to sustain business outcomes.
• Set the strategy and operating model for Employee Relations globally, ensuring a consistent, fair, and scalable approach.
• Provide executive oversight on affirm's most complex and sensitive ER matters, including executive-level issues, investigations, and conduct matters.
• Use ER data and case trends to identify emerging organizational risks and translate them into proactive action that strengthen leadership and management effectiveness, organizational health, and business performance.
• Partner closely with Legal on employment practices, policy, and risk management.

Skills

People leadership

Global leadership

Executive coaching

Strategic workforce planning

C-suite partnership

Organizational consulting

Talent judgment

Emotional intelligence

Change management

Business acumen

Learning agility

Strategic thinking

Job description

Affirm is seeking a transformative leader to helm global People Business Partners and Employee Relations. This role leads the PBP and ER functions, partnering with the CPO, PLT, and XLT to shape enterprise-wide talent decisions and organizational changes.

As a remote-first company, you will build high-performing teams, drive workforce strategy, and guide leadership through major changes while ensuring consistent, compliant practices across the business.