Sr. Human Resource Business Partner

Rocket Lab; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

Uber's People & Places team seeks a strategic Sr. HR Business Partner to drive talent strategies for the tech organization. You'll advise on organizational design, help shape company culture, and support leadership across Product, Engineering, and Science, fostering a high-performance environment.

Benefits

Bonus program eligibility

Equity award opportunities

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years professional experience.
• Strong EQ and presence.
• Experience providing HR consultation to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to senior leaders.
• Drive strategic business alignment within HR.
• Promote organizational effectiveness and culture.

Skills

Influencing Skills

Analytical Capabilities

Communication Skills

Cultural Awareness

Job description

About the Role

About the Role:

Uber’s People & Places (P&P) team empowers our global workforce to do their best work in support of Uber’s mission: Reimagine the way the world moves for the better. As part of P&P, the Tech HR Business Partner team focuses specifically on enabling our technology organization by aligning talent strategies with business needs, promoting organizational effectiveness, and championing an inclusive, high-performance culture.

We are looking for a strategic and people-focused Sr. HR Business Partner (HRBP) to join our team. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across Product, Engineering, and Science, providing guidance on organizational design, talent development, and change leadership. You will help shape the people agenda within tech by offering insights, driving initiatives, and ensuring our people strategies scale effectively with the business.

What You'll Do

• Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within your assigned business lines, guiding them through current and future business challenges while driving alignment with the broader People & Places (P&P) and company-wide priorities.
• Business Acumen & Relationship Building: Develop a deep understanding of your business units, building strong relationships with leaders to offer daily strategic counsel grounded in business insight and people expertise.
• Organizational Strategy & Execution: Collaborate with leadership teams to shape and implement organizational strategies that support business goals, team effectiveness, and long-term talent planning, while ensuring consistency with global P&P initiatives.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Act as a conduit between the business and HR centers of excellence, ensuring programs and initiatives are both informed by business realities and tailored for impact within the assigned teams.
• HR Process Navigation & Advocacy: Leverage a comprehensive understanding of Uber’s HR philosophy, tools, and systems to influence program adoption, drive behavioral change, and ensure people strategies are executed effectively.
• Organizational Effectiveness & Change Leadership: Continuously assess organizational design, team structures, governance, and external trends to identify opportunities for improved efficiency, then lead initiatives that support scalable and agile growth.
• Matrixed Influence & Collaboration: Navigate complex, matrixed environments by using strong collaboration and influencing skills to drive key outcomes, even without direct authority over resources or teams.
• Culture Champion: Serve as a steward of Uber’s values by actively promoting the mindsets, behaviors, and actions that shape and sustain the company’s unique culture and global impact.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years professional, related experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent influencing skills at all levels in the organization and flexibility to be proactive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Competence in making timely, effective, and principles-based decisions, using strong judgment to weigh inputs from multiple stakeholders and effectively managing tradeoffs, then aligning stakeholders to those decisions
• Deep business acumen to understand, anticipate, and solve business needs
• A track record of providing HR consultation to senior leadership on strategic initiatives
• Solid understanding of global HR programs including compensation, performance management, organizational structure, and leadership development
• Strong analytical capabilities or prior experience working in analytical functions like compensation or people analytics
• Understanding of various employment laws and their impact on HR matters
• Demonstrated ability to partner within and outside of HR
• Unquestioned integrity with assertiveness, presence, and confidence
• High EQ, personal maturity, cultural awareness and compassion
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and presentation skills
• Knowledge and experience in technology businesses and familiarity with their global HR practices and policies

For San Francisco, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD$186,000 per year - USD$207,000 per year.

You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. You will also be eligible for various benefits. More details can be found at the following link https://www.uber.com/careers/benefits.

Uber is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Offices continue to be central to collaboration and Uber’s cultural identity. Unless formally approved to work fully remotely, Uber expects employees to spend at least half of their work time in their assigned office. For certain roles, such as those based at green-light hubs, employees are expected to be in-office for 100% of their time. Please speak with your recruiter to better understand in-office expectations for this role.