People Business Partner

Iterative Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Iterative Health is seeking a People Business Partner to drive people strategies aligned with business priorities in their New York office. This strategic role requires expertise in HR and experience in high-growth healthcare environments.

Key responsibilities include advising leadership on workforce planning, managing employee relations, and leading change management initiatives. The ideal candidate has 7–10+ years of HR experience preferably in healthcare, demonstrating strong analytical and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience working in fast-scaling, high-growth environments.
• Strong ability to communicate and influence senior leaders.
• Proven experience in organizational design and talent strategy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to department leaders.
• Lead change management efforts across teams.
• Develop actionable HR strategies to support business growth.

Skills

Data-driven decision making

Coaching skills

Change management

Talent development

Stakeholder management

Education

7–10+ years of HR experience

Experience in healthcare or clinical research

Job description

Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes. The Iterative Health Site Network is a premier network of 100+ clinical research sites across the US and Europe, accelerating the path to market for novel therapies. By combining deep expertise in clinical trials with cutting‑edge AI, we empower research teams and study sponsors to expand and expedite access to novel therapeutics for patients in need.

We are seeking a strategic and data‑driven People Business Partner to partner closely with leaders across corporate functions and site‑based operational teams in support of a high‑performing, highly distributed healthcare services organization. This role will act as a trusted advisor, aligning people strategies with business priorities to support growth, scalability, and performance across the organization. Operating in a high‑growth, M&A‑driven environment, this role requires a strong balance of strategic thinking and hands‑on execution. The People Business Partner will play a key role driving organizational effectiveness, enabling leadership and supporting change initiatives while fostering a high‑performing, mission‑driven culture. This individual must be comfortable pivoting between strategic and hands‑on engagement, with a strong focus on change and performance management, talent/leadership development, organizational design, employee relations, and integration.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor, coach and thought partner to department, team and operational leaders, providing guidance on organizational strategy, workforce planning, employee relations issues and talent implications of business decisions.
• Translate business priorities into actionable HR strategies that drive growth, scalability, and operational excellence to enable a high performing and engaged workforce.
• Develop a deep understanding of IH business units, financial drivers, and market industry dynamics to proactively shape people initiatives that help transform the business as we grow and scale our infrastructure.
• Serve as a strategic liaison and advisor between the business and People Team Center of Excellence (COE) to align HR service delivery with business priorities.
• Identify opportunities to implement data‑informed people strategies that strengthen organizational health, culture and maturity while directly impacting leadership effectiveness and team performance.
• Lead workforce planning with business partners, anticipating skills and capabilities needed to scale the organization beyond current state and develop plans in conjunction with TA to identify talent profiles and succession bench‑ready for increased level of scope and responsibility.

Talent and Performance Management

• Drive talent and performance management processes that reinforce accountability, ownership and high standards of behaviors/values alignment to support our high‑performance culture.
• Partner with leaders on succession planning, leadership development, compensation strategies and retention initiatives across the enterprise.
• Use data and insights to inform talent decisions and effectively balance business needs with employee advocacy.
• Coach and develop leaders to engage, motivate and lead high performing teams, identifying least effective performance and partnering with team leaders to address performance issues early on.

Change Management and Culture

• Lead change management efforts across our growing and evolving teams/structures to support effective communication, accountability and alignment to our strategic priorities.
• Champion a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement aligned with Iterative Health’s mission.
• Support leaders in navigating ambiguity and leading through transformational change as an organization, providing insights and serving as a “thought partner” on operational and people challenges that dynamic growth brings.

Employee Relations and Coaching

• Provide expert coaching on employee relations, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics to enable a highly engaged, productive workforce while maintaining consistency and alignment to IH policies and procedures.
• Support positive culture building initiatives and drive employee engagement initiatives with team leaders to build highly engaged, motivated team members.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws and company policies – identify opportunities to improve, create and implement policies and procedures that balance business needs with operational realities.

HR Integration

• Partner with internal stakeholders including People COEs on due diligence, integration planning, and execution as part of pre and post‑acquisition integration process.
• Support organizational design, talent assessment, and cultural integration efforts to ensure seamless onboarding of acquired entities and team members to IH.
• Anticipate, identify and mitigate people‑related risks associated with rapid growth and change, including supporting HR initiatives focused on harmonization of system, processes and policies across the growing enterprise.

HR Program Execution

• Partner with COE to deliver best‑in‑class HR transformational initiatives to support a growing and scaling workforce.
• Own HR projects in support of strategic HR agenda focused on employee engagement, leadership development, performance management, and operationalizing best‑in‑class people initiatives and infrastructure that will attract, develop and retain talent.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including working in a fast‑scaling, high‑growth, complex and ambiguous start‑up environment.
• Experience in healthcare, clinical research, medtech, life sciences, or related industries strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting a highly distributed, growing multi‑site location network both domestically and globally is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience across a wide range of HR functional domains.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link HR strategy to financial and operational outcomes.
• Proven ability to communicate and influence senior leaders and operate as a strategic partner, understanding the operational and strategic priorities of the business and how people strategies can make an impact.
• Experience in organizational design, change management, and talent strategy.
• Data‑driven, analytical mindset with comfort leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions.
• Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfort navigating through ambiguity and managing multiple competing priorities.
• A builder and inventor mindset – orientation towards thinking outside the box to pilot and test programs and initiatives to iterate before applying a one‑size fits all approach.

New York pay range: $110,000 USD – $145,000 USD

At Iterative Health, we’re actively working towards creating an environment that is representative of the diversity of patients our technology serves. We are focused on building an equitable and inclusive culture, and by extension, hiring process. If you require any accommodations to make the application process or interviewing experience more accessible to you, please contact [e-mail].