Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Brightwheel; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightwheel seeks an experienced HRBP to partner with Directors, VPs, and executives on performance, employee relations, compensation, career development, and workforce planning.

You will lead calibration, promotions, and merit cycles, coach managers to build a high-performance, inclusive culture, and advise on complex employee relations while designing scalable HR processes and leveraging AI tools to accelerate work.

Qualifications

• Experience as an HRBP in a fast-moving tech environment with diverse stakeholders.
• Led calibration, promotions or merit cycles end-to-end in a high-performance culture.
• Advises leaders up to the executive level and designs scalable HR processes.
• Curious about AI and new tools to improve workflows and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary HR partner for corporate orgs, partnering with Directors, VPs, and executives on performance, employee relations, compensation, career development, and planning.
• Lead annual review calibration, promotions, and merit cycles from prep to outcomes.
• Coach managers to build a high-performance, inclusive culture and handle hard conversations.
• Advise on complex employee relations balancing employee needs with business goals.
• Own strategic initiatives, align stakeholders, and drive structured solutions.
• Design HR processes that scale beyond the portfolio and address root causes.
• Use AI tools to accelerate ER documentation, policy drafting, and workforce planning.

Skills

HRBP

Performance

Employee Relations

Compensation

Employee Experience

Workforce Planning

Calibration

Promotions

Merit Cycle

Coaching Leaders

Policy Design

AI Tools

Mentoring

Tools

AI Tools

Job description

Our Mission and Opportunity

Early education is one of the most important determinants of childhood outcomes, a critical support for working families, and a $175B market that remains underserved by modern technology. Brightwheel is the largest, fastest growing, and most loved platform in early ed, trusted by millions of educators and families every day. We are a three-time Cloud 100 company, backed by top investors including Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Notable Capital, and Mark Cuban.

Our Team

Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a distributed team with remote employees across every US time zone, as well as select offices in the US and internationally.

Who You Are

You've built real depth across HR domains - performance, employee relations, compensation, employee experience - and you know the trade-offs of each well enough to choose the right one for the situation in front of you, not just the one you've used before. You earn trust fast, whether you're coaching a first-time manager or advising a member of the executive team, and you're just as comfortable stepping into a new org as staying in your lane. You default to principles over rules - you can explain why a policy exists and know when it's right to flex it. You're genuinely curious about better ways of working, including how AI can help you and your stakeholders move faster, and you take ownership of ambiguous problems instead of waiting to be told what to do.

What You'll Do

• Serve as the primary HR partner for a portfolio of corporate orgs, working directly with Directors, VPs, and members of the executive team on performance, employee relations, compensation, career development, and workforce planning

• Lead our annual review calibration, promotion, and merit cycle for your assigned orgs - from prep through facilitation to final outcomes

• Coach and develop managers to build a high-performance, accountable, and inclusive team culture, including navigating hard performance conversations

• Advise on complex employee relations situations, balancing what's right for the employee with what's right for the business

• Own strategic initiatives with your stakeholders - identifying the problem, aligning stakeholders, structuring options and solutions, and driving the outcome aligned to a business priority

• Design HR processes and frameworks that hold up beyond your own portfolio - solving root causes, not just symptoms

• Use AI tools to accelerate your own work - from ER documentation to policy drafting to workforce planning - and help raise the bar for how the broader People team works

• Model strong HRBP partnership for your teammates, informally mentoring and sharing what's working

What You've Done

• Experience as an HRBP in a fast-moving tech environment, partnering with a diverse set of stakeholders and business problems

• A track record of leading - not just supporting - a calibration, promotion, or merit cycle, ideally in a high-performance culture

• Comfort advising and coaching leaders up through the executive level, including through difficult or high-stakes conversations

• A track record of owning a strategic initiative end-to-end for a business leader - from problem definition through execution

• A history of designing or improving an HR process, not only executing existing ones

• Genuine curiosity about AI and new tools - you don't need to be an expert, but you try things and iterate

What Sets You Apart

• You've used AI to build a real, scaled workflow improvement - not just experimented with a chatbot

• You've navigated a genuinely messy calibration or performance case (conflicting data, an underdeveloped process, a hard people call) and can talk through how you diagnosed skill vs. will and chose your approach

• You've changed a leader's mind through data and judgment, not authority, resulting in a meaningful business outcome

• You've mentored or shaped how peers approach HR partnership, without being asked to

Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.