Senior People Business Partner

Tribe; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribe is an AI-native services company helping enterprises unlock AI value. We are growing and building a manager-centered enablement function, seeking a Senior People Business Partner to coach managers, design scalable programs, and shape culture across a distributed organization.

You will own employee relations for managers and teams, develop programs, drive change, and align people initiatives with business outcomes across countries.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in HR business partnering at a high-growth company.
• Depth of experience in performance management, organizational development, and manager enablement.
• Depth in employee relations, with the judgment to know when to bring in the right expertise.
• Evidence-based: you use data and specifics to make people decisions and defend them.
• A builder with a record of designing programs that stick, who names it when one doesn't and iterates thoughtfully and quickly.
• Change management experience that drives adoption, not just launch.
• Business acumen: you understand how the business works and tie people work to outcomes.
• You see a need, raise it, and bring a solution.
• You value close partnership and collaboration.
• Fluent with AI tools in your own work, with a point of view on how they change people programs.
• Experience supporting distributed teams across countries, with working knowledge of employment law in the places you've supported

Responsibilities

• Partner with a defined set of managers and leaders on team health, performance, and growth.
• Run regular manager check-ins and coach managers on leading their teams well.
• Build and run manager enablement: the toolkit, training, and resources that make good management repeatable.
• Partner with the People Operations Lead on our AI-native, evidence-based performance process, from design through manager support and calibration.
• Support leveling and promotion practices as the company grows.
• Support managers in setting clear expectations and developing their teams.
• Partner with managers and new hires through the first 30, 60, and 90 days: setting expectations, checking in, and making sure both sides are set up to succeed.
• Own employee relations for the managers and teams you support, with care and consistency.
• Handle sensitive moments and conversations with long-term judgment.
• Help build culture in a distributed, services-based company: remote work principles, connection, and the rituals that make us feel like one team.
• Build our learning and development approach, working with external partners for skills training.
• Run the listening mechanisms that tell us how managers and employees are doing, and turn what you hear into action.
• Build and run people programs and policy, from design through rollout.
• Identify patterns and themes across managers and teams, and proactively action-plan to address them.
• Lead change management that drives adoption, so new programs and policy take hold.
• Tie people programs to business outcomes and show their impact.
• Advise on team structure, role design, and workforce planning alongside the People Operations Lead and Finance.
• Partner with Talent on leveling and onboarding of senior hires, and with account and staffing leads on growth paths.

Job description

At Tribe, we're on a mission to help enterprises realize the value of AI for their business. Every large enterprise wants to use AI to transform how they operate — but many don't have the capabilities to do it. That gap is our opportunity.

We're an AI-native services company that helps enterprises build and deploy best-in-class AI products that deliver real business impact. We partner closely with OpenAI and Anthropic, giving us rare visibility into the most advanced models, roadmaps, and GTM strategies in the world.

About the Role

We're growing quickly, and we're building the manager support and infrastructure to scale ahead of our manager population, not behind it. We're hiring a Senior People Business Partner to help build that: coaching managers, building the enablement that makes good management repeatable, supporting managers and employees through the moments that matter, and helping shape the culture of a distributed, services-based company, all in service of a business that is well supported through its people.

You'll be a senior collaborator across our people partner function, owning employee relations for the managers and teams you support. You'll also build the programs and policy behind it: spotting patterns, building proactively to address them, and driving adoption so new programs take hold. You're a strategic, relationship-minded partner who sees a need, raises it, and brings a solution, and you're comfortable getting into the details.

What You'll Be Doing

Partner with a defined set of managers and leaders on team health, performance, and growth

Run regular manager check-ins and coach managers on leading their teams well

Build and run manager enablement: the toolkit, training, and resources that make good management repeatable

Performance & Talent

Partner with the People Operations Lead on our AI-native, evidence-based performance process, from design through manager support and calibration

Support leveling and promotion practices as the company grows

Support managers in setting clear expectations and developing their teams

Onboarding Partnership

Partner with managers and new hires through the first 30, 60, and 90 days: setting expectations, checking in, and making sure both sides are set up to succeed

Employee Relations

Own employee relations for the managers and teams you support, with care and consistency

Handle sensitive moments and conversations with long-term judgment

Help build culture in a distributed, services-based company: remote work principles, connection, and the rituals that make us feel like one team

Build our learning and development approach, working with external partners for skills training

Run the listening mechanisms that tell us how managers and employees are doing, and turn what you hear into action

Program, Policy & Change

Build and run people programs and policy, from design through rollout

Identify patterns and themes across managers and teams, and proactively action-plan to address them

Lead change management that drives adoption, so new programs and policy take hold

Tie people programs to business outcomes and show their impact

Org & Talent

Advise on team structure, role design, and workforce planning alongside the People Operations Lead and Finance

Partner with Talent on leveling and onboarding of senior hires, and with account and staffing leads on growth paths

About You

7+ years in HR business partnering at a high-growth company

Depth of experience in performance management, organizational development, and manager enablement

Depth in employee relations, with the judgment to know when to bring in the right expertise

Evidence-based: you use data and specifics to make people decisions and defend them

A builder with a record of designing programs that stick, who names it when one doesn't and iterates thoughtfully and quickly

Change management experience that drives adoption, not just launch

Business acumen: you understand how the business works and tie people work to outcomes

You see a need, raise it, and bring a solution

You value close partnership and collaboration

Fluent with AI tools in your own work, with a point of view on how they change people programs

Experience supporting distributed teams across countries, with working knowledge of employment law in the places you've supported

Nice to Have

Experience building manager training or a learning and development program from scratch

Exposure to compensation and rewards, such as leveling, bands, and comp cycles

Experience with Rippling or a comparable HRIS

Why Join Us

Impact: You shape how managers manage at a company that is scaling several-fold

Ownership: You help build the partnering function rather than inherit it

Opportunity: Rethink how people partnering works in an AI-native company, and define what it looks like in practice

Scope: Manager partnership, employee relations, culture, and learning in the same role

Culture: A team that prizes intellectual growth, learning, and being challenged in a supportive environment