Senior People Partner: Manager Enablement & Culture

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

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.