
Senior People Business Partner (Tech)
- Canada
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as a Strategic Partner: Proactively engage with engineering leaders (VP+) and managers to understand business challenges, anticipate people-related issues, and build scalable solutions. Act as a trusted advisor and coach on all people matters, from organizational design to talent planning.
- Drive Performance and Development: Lead and facilitate critical HR processes, including performance calibrations, and talent reviews. Partner with leaders to foster a culture of continuous feedback, accountability, and professional growth within the engineering teams.
- Manage Employee Relations and Investigations: Independently investigate and resolve complex employee relations issues, providing clear guidance and support to engineering leaders and employees.
- Champion Culture and Engagement: Assist with the design and execution of action plans based on engagement survey data..
- Mentor and Develop: Act as a mentor for junior members of the People team, providing guidance and sharing expertise in complex business partnering, employee relations, and stakeholder management.
- Navigate and Innovate: Thrive in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment. Use data and insights to develop dynamic solutions to novel problems, balancing the needs of the business with the well-being of our people.
- Deep HR Expertise: 6+ years of progressive HR experience, with a minimum of 4 years as an HR Business Partner supporting a technology organization.
- Engineering Partnership: Proven experience successfully partnering with senior software engineering leaders (Director+). You understand the unique challenges and dynamics of a technical team and can speak their language.
- Proactive and Self-Starting: Demonstrated ability to anticipate short to medium term problems and build solutions from the ground up without extensive direction. You are a natural problem-solver who takes initiative.
- Mentorship: Experience mentoring or coaching junior HR professionals on a variety of people-related topics.
- Expertise in Key HR Functions: Strong experience in employee relations, performance management, engagement initiatives, and change management.
- Ambiguity and Change: A proven ability to navigate and succeed in a complex, fast-paced, and ambiguous environment.
- Communication: Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Competitive salary
- 3 weeks vacation + 3 personal care days + 1 Culture & Belief day + birthdays off
- RRSP/401K matching
- Access to a comprehensive mental health care platform
- Health benefits from day one of employment
- Work from home reimbursements
- Optional global WeWork membership for those who want a change from their home office
- Robust training and onboarding program
- Coverage and support of personal development initiatives (conferences, courses, etc)
- Access to StackAdapt programmatic courses and certifications to support continuous learning
- An awesome parental leave policy
- A friendly, welcoming, and supportive culture
- Our social and team events!