Lead HR Business Partner – R&D

Lead HR Business Partner – R&D

Requirements

• 6-10 years in HR, with 5+ years supporting senior leaders as a true business partner
• Strong communication, coaching, and influence skills at all organizational levels
• Familiarity with HRIS and productivity tools like Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office
• Bachelor’s degree required

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with senior business leaders and cross-functional teams to offer strategic and tactical direction
• Develop recommendations on how leaders can drive adoption and engagement of key talent management programs by leveraging qualitative and quantitative data insights
• Leverage data and insights to facilitate meaningful talent management discussions with people leaders at all levels of the organization
• Identify and handle employee issues quickly and sensitively, exercising good judgment and discretion
• Coach managers on performance management, feedback, employee development and career pathing
• Be a resource for individual contributors across partner teams, successfully influencing others by providing direction, knowledge, and support to create a high-performing organization
• Develop strong trusted relationships and credibility across all levels of business line management
• Partner with the People Ops team to optimize and advise on performance management, hiring, organizational design, compensation and internal processes
• Be involved in the design and execution strategies for how we staff, onboard, develop, motivate, retain, and organize work
• Synthesize insights and observations from across the organization to identify improvement areas in HR processes and propose solutions for addressing them

Preferred Qualifications

• Strategic thinking combined with a bias toward action and operational excellence
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with some ambiguity
• A passion for people, process improvement, and organizational success
• PHR or SPHR certifications are a plus