Talent Business Partner, Manager

Wayfair; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayfair seeks a Seattle-based, hybrid full-time HR leader to translate tech priorities into executable people plans. You will guide org design, workforce planning, and manager capability while partnering with Legal, Talent Relations, and Finance to drive performance and engagement for technology teams.

You will leverage GenAI responsibly to synthesize trends, draft materials, and scale impact, maintaining confidentiality and human judgment at the core of decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HRBP, People Strategy, Talent Business Partner, Talent Relations, or related People experience.
• Demonstrated success advising and influencing Director-level leaders and managers in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.
• Experience building and executing people plans for a defined business area with limited oversight, including clear milestones, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical acumen, including the ability to interpret people data, build hypotheses, identify trends, and translate insights into leader-ready recommendations.
• Working knowledge of core HR disciplines, including employee relations, performance management, compensation/Total Rewards, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and inclusion practices.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and Canadian employment law considerations, with judgment to partner with Talent Relations, Legal, and other experts when needed.
• Demonstrated ability or strong readiness to use GenAI responsibly to improve work quality, speed, synthesis, and decision support.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own people execution strategies for Technology teams: Translate business priorities, org health needs, and talent signals into quarterly plans that define workstreams, sequencing, stakeholders, risks, success measures, and leader enablement.
• Turn employee and talent trends into action: Use engagement, performance, attrition, talent movement, employee relations, workforce, and manager effectiveness data to identify patterns and recommend practical interventions.
• Advise leaders on org and talent decisions: Guide leaders through org design, workforce planning, succession, role clarity, manager capability, team effectiveness, and change management within a defined Technology remit.
• Raise manager effectiveness: Equip managers with actionable, data-informed guidance to coach, develop, differentiate, and hold teams accountable in a high-growth, matrixed environment.
• Navigate complex employee matters: Lead or support nuanced employee relations, investigations, performance, accommodations, and organizational change matters in partnership with Legal, and business leaders.
• Execute core Talent rhythms with excellence: Drive performance, compensation, talent review, engagement, succession, workforce planning, and other cyclical processes for supported Technology teams, while improving adoption and outcomes.
• Use AI to scale TBP impact: Apply approved GenAI to compare solution options, synthesize listening themes, draft leader-ready materials, scenario-plan communications, accelerate manager enablement, and identify repeatable workflows that improve speed and quality.
• Practice responsible AI and data stewardship: Protect confidential employee and business information, use only approved tools and data sources, validate AI outputs, check for bias or unsupported assumptions, and keep human judgment at the center of talent decisions.
• Create repeatable playbooks and share learnings: Codify effective approaches, AI prompts or workflows, leader enablement materials, and lessons learned so the broader Tech Talent team can deliver faster and more consistently.

Skills

Execution Strategist

Talent Advisor

AI-Enabled Operator

Data-Driven Influencer

Systems Thinker

Trusted Coach

Cross-Functional Collaborator

Mentor and Culture Carrier

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Psychology

Tools

Workday

Visier

Job description

This is a Seattle-based hybrid full time role. You are required to be onsite Tuesday through Thursday in our Seattle, WA headquarters. Monday and Friday are WFH.

Wayfair's Tech Talent team is the strategic operating arm of the People function for Technology. We activate business strategy through people by designing, implementing, and scaling programs that attract, grow, and retain high-performing technical talent across Engineering, Applied Research / Science, Product, Analytics, and adjacent technology teams.

Who You Are

• L3 Execution Strategist: You can convert a scoped people or organizational challenge into a clear execution strategy with milestones, tradeoffs, success measures, and a communication plan.
• High-Judgment Talent Advisor: You advise leaders through sensitive, nuanced, and confidential scenarios with sound judgment, balanced risk assessment, and practical recommendations.
• AI-Enabled Operator: You actively use approved GenAI tools to evaluate options, synthesize information, draft and iterate deliverables, pressure-test plans, and accelerate cycle time while maintaining human accountability.
• Data-Driven Influencer: You build hypotheses, analyze talent and business signals, identify meaningful employee trends, and turn insight into actions leaders can own.
• Systems Thinker: You anticipate second- and third-order effects across teams, geographies, manager capability, employee experience, and policy or legal considerations.
• Trusted Coach: You coach leaders and managers with empathy, candor, and resilience, helping them raise the bar on feedback, accountability, performance, and team effectiveness.
• Cross-Functional Collaborator: You align effectively with Talent Relations, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Purpose & Inclusion, Legal, Finance, and Talent Analytics to deliver integrated solutions.
• Mentor and Culture Carrier: You model high standards for the broader TBP team, share learnings, and help junior partners build capability, including responsible AI adoption.

What You'll Do

• Own people execution strategies for Technology teams: Translate business priorities, org health needs, and talent signals into quarterly plans that define workstreams, sequencing, stakeholders, risks, success measures, and leader enablement.
• Turn employee and talent trends into action: Use engagement, performance, attrition, talent movement, employee relations, workforce, and manager effectiveness data to identify patterns and recommend practical interventions.
• Advise leaders on org and talent decisions: Guide leaders through org design, workforce planning, succession, role clarity, manager capability, team effectiveness, and change management within a defined Technology remit.
• Raise manager effectiveness: Equip managers with actionable, data-informed guidance to coach, develop, differentiate, and hold teams accountable in a high-growth, matrixed environment.
• Navigate complex employee matters: Lead or support nuanced employee relations, investigations, performance, accommodations, and organizational change matters in partnership with Legal, and business leaders.
• Execute core Talent rhythms with excellence: Drive performance, compensation, talent review, engagement, succession, workforce planning, and other cyclical processes for supported Technology teams, while improving adoption and outcomes.
• Use AI to scale TBP impact: Apply approved GenAI to compare solution options, synthesize listening themes, draft leader-ready materials, scenario-plan communications, accelerate manager enablement, and identify repeatable workflows that improve speed and quality.
• Practice responsible AI and data stewardship: Protect confidential employee and business information, use only approved tools and data sources, validate AI outputs, check for bias or unsupported assumptions, and keep human judgment at the center of talent decisions.
• Create repeatable playbooks and share learnings: Codify effective approaches, AI prompts or workflows, leader enablement materials, and lessons learned so the broader Tech Talent team can deliver faster and more consistently.

How Success Will Be Measured

• Clear quarterly execution plans are in place for priority people work, with aligned stakeholders, milestones, risk mitigation, and success measures.
• Technology leaders receive timely, high-judgment counsel and take informed action on org health, performance, talent, and manager effectiveness priorities.
• Employee trends are identified early, converted into practical interventions, and measured for impact on attraction, retention, development, engagement, and performance.
• AI-enabled workflows improve speed, quality, consistency, and scale of TBP deliverables without compromising confidentiality, accuracy, equity, or judgment.
• Junior partners, managers, and cross-functional stakeholders are stronger because you share knowledge, create reusable assets, and model Wayfair-caliber operating standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HRBP, People Strategy, Talent Business Partner, Talent Relations, or related People experience.
• Demonstrated success advising and influencing Director-level leaders and managers in a matrixed, fast-paced environment.
• Experience building and executing people plans for a defined business area with limited oversight, including clear milestones, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical acumen, including the ability to interpret people data, build hypotheses, identify trends, and translate insights into leader-ready recommendations.
• Working knowledge of core HR disciplines, including employee relations, performance management, compensation/Total Rewards, talent acquisition, workforce planning, and inclusion practices.
• Working knowledge of U.S. and Canadian employment law considerations, with judgment to partner with Talent Relations, Legal, and other experts when needed.
• Demonstrated ability or strong readiness to use GenAI responsibly to improve work quality, speed, synthesis, and decision support.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years supporting Technology leaders, such as Engineering, Applied Research / Science, Product, Analytics, UX Design or other technical teams, in an HRBP or People Partner capacity.
• Experience supporting global, multi-site, or geographically distributed organizations.
• Comfort with Workday, Visier, or similar HRIS, analytics, AI (e.g. Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) and other data visualization tools.
• Experience designing or scaling AI-enabled People workflows, manager enablement materials, analytics summaries, or Talent operations processes.
• Formal training or certification in coaching, organization design, change management, HR, or employment practices, such as PHR, SHRM-CP/SCP, CHRL, or equivalent.

Travel and Flexibility

Occasional travel, approximately 15-20%, to other Wayfair locations or partner sites may be required. The role requires flexibility to support a fast-paced Technology environment and to partner effectively across teams, time zones, and geographies as needed.

Assistance For Individuals With Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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