People Partner

Pedestal Health; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Generous PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Pedestal Health, based in Durham, NC, seeks a People Partner to own the full employee experience—from payroll to culture. This generalist role covers benefits, onboarding, HRIS, recruiting, and employee relations, with a focus on scalable processes and a positive work environment.

If you enjoy variety, building systems from scratch, and navigating multiple state regulations, you’ll thrive here and help shape healthcare decision-making for patients and teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a generalist HR role.
• Knowledge of multi-state employment law.
• Strong judgment, discretion, and handling sensitive information.
• Experience with ADP preferred.
• PHR/SHRM-CP is nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Provide people support for benefits, payroll, and employee relations.
• Lead recruiting lifecycle from sourcing to offers.
• Administer benefits programs, enrollment, and compliance.
• Maintain HRIS data accuracy and payroll readiness.
• Foster culture and plan all-hands and recognition events.
• Produce reports and dashboards for headcount and planning.

Skills

Generalist HR

Multi-state law

ADP experience

Discretion & privacy

Tools

ADP

HRIS

Job description

About Pedestal Health

Pedestal Health (formerly Target RWE) combines deep health system partnerships, longitudinal data curation at scale, and modern study design to build continuous, high-quality evidence for life sciences organizations. The company partners with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, providers and payers to generate rigorous, multimodal evidence that supports clinical, regulatory and strategic decision-making across the full lifecycle of care. Pedestal Health is committed to advancing medical decision making to improve outcomes for patients. Pedestal Health is a Highlander Health company. Learn more at pedestalhealth.com.

The Role

We're looking for a People Partner to be the go-to person for all things people at Pedestal Health. This is a true generalist role. One day you're troubleshooting a benefits question, the next you're running an interview loop or making sure payroll goes out without a hitch. You'll own the full employee experience, from the systems that keep us running to the culture that makes people want to stick around. If you like variety, don't need a playbook for everything, and enjoy building things from scratch, this is your role.

What You’ll Do

People Support

• Be the person people come to with questions, concerns, or just need to talk something through
• Help managers navigate tough conversations, coaching, and performance issues
• Look into workplace concerns when they come up and help figure out a fair resolution
• Keep the vibe positive and catch issues early, before they turn into bigger problems

Recruiting

• Run hiring from start to finish - sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, the whole thing
• Work with hiring managers to figure out who we actually need and what a great candidate looks like
• Keep Greenhouse tidy and make sure every candidate has a good experience, whether they get the job or not
• Help us tell our story to attract great people

Benefits & Compensation

• Run our benefits programs day-to-day; enrollment, questions, compliance all of it
• Be the friendly face for benefits questions and chase down issues
• Pull benchmarking for positions, run merit cycles, and ensure consistent pay across the team
• Run open enrollment each year, from planning to explaining it to the team

HRIS

• Keep our HR system accurate - new hires, changes, exits, org updates, all clean and up to date
• Pull reports and dashboards that help leadership make good calls on headcount and planning
• Spot ways to automate or simplify our HR processes - we'd rather build a workflow than repeat a task
• Make sure the system setup matches our policies and keeps us compliant

Culture

• Champion the company's values and help translate them into everyday behaviors, recognition, and team rituals
• Help plan the stuff that makes work fun — all-hands, recognition shoutouts, team events, milestones
• Make sure new hires feel the culture from their very first day, not buried in a slide deck
• Keep a pulse on how people are feeling (surveys, exit chats, check-ins) and act on what you hear
• Serve as a culture champion and role model for the organization's values in daily interactions

What You Bring

• 3+ years’ experience in a generalist HR role, bonus points if you've touched benefits, comp, ER, recruiting, and HRIS
• Have a good handle on multi-state employment law
• Strong judgment, discretion, and interpersonal skills; comfortable handling sensitive information
• You can juggle a lot without dropping the ball
• Experience working with ADP strongly preferred
• PHR/SHRM-CP is nice to have, not required
• Healthcare, life sciences, or startup experience is a plus

What We Offer You

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Generous PTO and paid parental leave

If you are ready to be part of a team where your work truly matters—where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape the future of healthcare—Pedestal Health is the place for you. We're building something meaningful together, and we'd love for you to be a part of it.