Senior People Partner

Perk; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Relocation support

Stock options

20 vacation days + 12 holidays

Work from Anywhere days

Sabbatical after 5 years

401(k) with company match

Wellbeing via Spring Health

Pet insurance discounts

Job summary

Perk is seeking a Senior People Partner to partner with North America senior leaders and embed Best for Perk people strategies across a hyper-growth environment.

You will lead a People Partner team and work with Revenue, Compensation, People Operations, and Revenue Operations to align role scope and growth with business objectives. This role emphasizes data-driven decision making and high cadence execution.

Qualifications

• Senior People Partner experience with Sales or Revenue orgs in fast-growing tech.
• Strong stakeholder management across People partnering and exec stakeholders.
• Global experience across multiple markets, North America preferred.

Responsibilities

• Be a trusted partner to senior leaders and embed people strategy across Revenue and key functions.
• Lead and grow a People Partner team, setting priorities and coaching others.
• Drive high performance at scale with clear expectations and accountability.
• Build growth foundations with compensation, people operations, and revenue teams.
• Champion employee experience and navigate change with empathy and structure.
• Use data to inform decisions and test hypotheses across the org.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership coaching

Global experience

Organisational design

Change management

Data-driven HR

People strategy

Job description

We have huge growth ambitions here at Perk, and our commitment to achieve them has never been stronger as we navigate our journey to One Perk. We’re scaling fast across multiple regions, integrating new businesses, and evolving how we deliver for our customers. As we expand our reach, launch new products and enter new markets, we need to stay sharp, scalable and human. That’s where you come in.

We’re looking for a Senior People Partner to join our team, partnering closely with Senior Leaders across North America to embed ‘Best for Perk’ people strategies, which contribute to our global success and high performance culture. This role is for someone who knows how to balance commerciality with dedication to colleague experience in a hyper growth environment.

Reporting to the Strategic People Partner, Revenue, you’ll collaborate globally across the business and People Team to ensure alignment, consistency, and impact in everything we do. You will also lead and develop a People Partner as a direct reporting line.

If you’ve worked in progressive People teams, have a flexible approach, and know how to apply people strategy to business deliverables, we’d love to meet you.

What you’ll do:

• Be a trusted partner to VP, Sales (NAM), VP Supplier Partnerships and VP, AmTrav: Work closely with our Revenue, Supplier Partnerships and AmTrav Senior Leaders and managers to define, deliver, and embed the people strategy within these areas of Perk. With strong business acumen and coaching approach, you’ll bring insight, challenge, and clarity to business decisions, team structures and leadership plans. With huge growth plans comes ambiguity and a need to adapt our approach regularly; you’ll be comfortable navigating unknowns, and bring confidence in others through ambiguity.
• Lead and grow your own team: Manage and develop a People Partner, enabling them to partner our teams that span multiple functions in North America. Set priorities, provide guidance and coaching, and drive success through your team.
• Drive high performance at scale: Define what great looks like by co-creating with business leaders to implement better ways of working to drive success, and enable leaders and managers to lead with confidence, clarity and accountability.
• Build the foundations for growth: Partner with Revenue Leadership and utilise supporting teams such as, Compensation, People Operations and Revenue Operations toreview role scope and compensation frameworks to align with evolving business objectives and company growth.
• Champion employee experience: Our values are at the heart of everything we do here at Perk. You’ll partner leaders to shape the employee experience across their teams and help us listen carefully, act on feedback and build a high performance culture that people want to be part of.
• Lead through change: With experience in leading change effectively, you’ll partner leaders through fast-paced change with empathy and structure. You’ll ensure that through change and beyond, our colleagues are valued, and stay connected to our mission.
• Data- first mindset to make better decisions: Bring a data-driven mindset to everything you do. Use people insights to create and test hypotheses, diagnose challenges or opportunities, track progress and measure impact.

What success looks like:

• Successful project delivery across the business and People Team that drives business impact and outcomes that are aligned to business priorities.
• Partner with senior leaders to build a high-performing, values-led culture that supports growth and drives results. Teams deliver and exceed both business and people success metrics
• Coach and influence senior stakeholders to drive better results and employee experience
• Managers and leaders feel equipped to drive performance, engagement and team development. They are confident and deliver against expectations throughout the entire employee lifecycle.
• Our people strategy is embedded into day-to-day business decisions, not separate from them
• People insights such as engagement, churn, absence, and performance remain healthy

What you’ll bring:

• Experience in a Senior People Partner role partnering Sales / Revenue organisations and / or emerging products in fast-growing tech companies
• A track record of strong stakeholder management skills across People Partnering and influencing senior leaders.
• Proven global experience, ideally gained within a centralised business operating across multiple markets with North America being a must have
• Strong understanding of organisational design, high performance culture, leadership development and change management.
• A coaching mindset and excellent communication skills. You know when to challenge and when to support.
• A commercial approach to people work, with a focus on impact, data and action and balancing colleague experience.
• Experience developing and enabling leaders through multiple methods including skills gap analysis, designing, delivering, and measuring training programmes.
• Receive competitive compensation and equity ownership in Perk
• Rest and recharge with our generous allocation of 20 vacation days and 12 public holidays
• Enjoy the flexibility of three medical plans to choose from, with company contributions and an HSA when enrolling in an HDHP medical plan
• Take control of your physical health with additional comprehensive benefit plans, covering dental, vision and Wellhub’s gym subscription from your start date
• Rest assured that you’re covered by life and disability policies from your start date, with options to add extra protection through voluntary buy-up plans
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan with company matching contributions
• Care for your furry friends through partner discounts on pet insurance
• Join our unforgettable Perk events, including our spectacular annual summer party
• Always feel supported with Spring Health, our market-leading wellbeing partner, providing fast, comprehensive access to 12x therapy and 12x coaching sessions for you and your loved ones
• Focus on your family with 12-16 weeks’ paid parental leave
• Contribute to your community with 16 paid hours per year to spend volunteering for your dearest charitable causes
• Broaden your horizons with up to 20 "Work from Anywhere" days per year
• Follow your passions and take a four-week, fully paid sabbatical once you reach 5 years
• Let us help you move to one of our hubs with relocation support

Compensation:

Compensation for this role is a combination of salary and stock options. The anticipated base salary range is $135,000 - $160,000 per year. Actual compensation may vary based on specific qualifications, experience, and other job‑related factors.

AI Fluency

AI is embedded in how we work across every function. The tools you'll use day-to-day are AI-enabled so you can move faster and spend more time on the work that matters. In practice, that means using AI to research and prioritise accounts, draft and refine outreach, handle customer interactions more effectively, synthesise information, and cut through shadow work - the invisible tasks that pull people away from the work only they can do - so you can focus on relationships and outcomes.

We don't expect you to be an AI expert, but we do expect you to be curious and intentional about it. The bar is judgment: knowing when AI makes your work better, when to verify what it produces, and when to rely on your own expertise instead.

We'll ask about how you use AI in your interviews, not to test tool knowledge, but to understand how you think about it. That reflects how we work every day.