Human Resources Business Partner

PeopleOps Jobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleOps Jobs is seeking a founding People Partner to help us build effective teams and develop talent as we scale. You will partner with leaders across research, engineering, hardware and business functions to strengthen performance, development and how teams operate.

You will establish the People Partner function, delivering insights, informing priorities, and owning key initiatives to shape our broader People programs.

Qualifications

• Experience advising leaders as a People Partner, HRBP or in a comparable role in tech or hardware.
• Experience across early-stage startups and larger companies.
• Experience building practical People tools or delivering program components.
• Experience coaching managers through feedback, performance and development.
• Sound judgment in employee relations, including confidentiality and involving People leadership or counsel when needed.
• Experience using employee feedback and people data to recommend change and assess impact.

Responsibilities

• Partner strategically with leaders to understand priorities and advise on talent, organizational change and capabilities as we grow.
• Coach and develop managers with clear expectations, feedback, delegation, and leadership development resources.
• Guide performance and development by supporting reviews and turning feedback into actionable plans.
• Understand and improve team health using pulse surveys, exit themes and people data to identify concerns early.
• Advise on employee relations and change, handling sensitive situations fairly and involving leadership or counsel as needed.

Skills

People Partner experience

HRBP experience

Tech industry

Startup experience

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication excellence

Tools

Rippling

Ashby

Lattice

Deel

Notion

Slack

Job description

We started PeopleOps Jobs (https://peopleopsjobs.io) to help companies that care about HR find the right people in the HR and People Operations world.

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About the role

The position is at a tech company. We're looking for a founding People Partner to help us achieve our business goals by building effective teams and developing the talent we need as we grow. You'll partner with leaders and employees across research, engineering, hardware and business teams to strengthen performance, development and how teams work together.

You'll establish the People Partner function, balancing opportunities to strengthen performance and development with the need to address people challenges and risks early. You'll bring clear recommendations to inform our priorities and use insights from your work with leaders and employees to shape our broader People programs, with ownership of specific initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner strategically with leaders. Understand business priorities, anticipate people needs, and advise leaders on talent, organizational change and the capabilities their teams need as we grow.
• Coach and develop managers. Help managers set clear expectations, give useful feedback, delegate effectively and handle difficult conversations. Deliver coaching, team training and resources as we build out our leadership development work, drawing on the challenges you see across teams.
• Guide performance and development. Support managers through performance reviews, helping them assess performance and turn feedback into development plans they follow through on. Bring recommendations as we continue to build our approach.
• Understand and improve team health. Use employee conversations, pulse survey results, exit themes and people data to identify concerns and retention risks early. Facilitate discussions on role clarity and working relationships, and work with leaders to agree on actions and assess whether they help.
• Advise on employee relations and change. Work with managers on performance concerns, employee issues and conflict, handling sensitive situations fairly and with care. Advise leaders on communicating and managing team changes, and involve People leadership and counsel in complex or high-risk matters.

Qualifications

• Experience advising leaders as a People Partner, HRBP or in a comparable role within a tech or hardware company.
• Experience across early-stage startups and larger companies
• Experience building practical People tools or delivering program components
• Experience coaching managers through feedback, performance and development
• Sound judgment in employee relations, including fact-finding, confidentiality and knowing when to involve People leadership or counsel
• Experience using employee feedback and people data to recommend a change and assess whether it helped.
• Clear, candid communication, with examples of building trust and influencing leaders through difficult decisions or disagreement.
• Experience supporting employees and managers across multiple countries; you know when to draw on local expertise.

Bonus Points

• Experience using Rippling, Ashby, Lattice, Deel, Notion, Slack.
• Experience supporting research or hardware teams, with an understanding of how their work shapes team structure, performance and development.
• An HR or project management certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR or PMP.
• Experience supporting reductions in force, setting up or international entity arrangements, and PEO setups.