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Director, People Business Partner
Location
Hawaii
Posted
142 days ago
Salary
$182.8K - $215K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, People Business Partner
Modern Health
• Serve as a strategic thought and business partner to senior leaders, translating business goals into integrated people strategies that drive organizational health, performance, and scalability at Modern Health. • Design and execute progressive talent strategies for your client groups, including performance enablement, talent reviews, succession planning, and leadership development to strengthen engagement, development, and raise the bar. • Coach and develop leaders to build high-performing, inclusive teams — recognizing and rewarding top performance, addressing underperformance, and elevating leadership excellence aligned with Modern Health’s values. • Lead organizational design and change efforts, partnering with leaders to build scalable structures and support smooth transitions through periods of growth and transformation. • Use data and insights to identify trends, diagnose root causes, and drive measurable improvements in team health, productivity, and employee experience. • Drive complex, cross-functional people initiatives end-to-end, managing scoping, planning, execution, and continuous improvement of core people processes (e.g., compensation, performance management, talent development, employee relations, change management, organizational design). • Champion culture and employee experience, ensuring fairness, inclusion, and consistency in decision-making, surfacing patterns in employee sentiment, and proactively strengthening engagement and trust. • Be responsible for overall program management for people team initiatives and roadmap • Collaborate with other People Team functions (People Ops, Recruiting) and key cross-functional stakeholders to inform the design and implementation of strategic people programs and initiatives • Act as a culture ambassador, fostering equity, diversity and inclusion, and belonging. Partner with and support our ERG’s. • Use good judgment and utilize both qualitative and quantitative data to inform key business and people decisions • Address, investigate and resolve employee relations issues • Uphold and promote Modern Health’s values
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of People/HR experience, with at least 4+ years of HRBP experience partnering directly with Executive and leaders
- 2+ years experience in a People leadership role, ideally in a health or tech and high-growth company
- Experience with organizational and cultural transformation
- Strong program management acumen/skills
- Ability to strike a balance between strategic partnership-building and getting things done
- Comfortable utilizing qualitative and quantitative approaches to problem solving and root cause analysis to tell a story and translate it into actionable strategy
- Excellent judgment and problem solving capabilities; as well as ability to make pragmatic and thoughtful decisions
- Deep sense of empathy and understanding for the needs of diverse groups of people
- Expertise in building trusting relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders (i.e., Finance, Legal)
- An advocate for others, speaking up even when it’s difficult, and seeing others accomplish their goals
- Organizational, facilitation, and presentation skills
- Have a passion for seeing others grow through coaching, mentoring, and career development
- Ability to travel and work in office as needed.
Benefits
- Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance
- High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
- Flexible Time Off
- Company-wide Collective Pause Days
- Parental Leave Policy
- Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
- Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter
- Professional Development Stipend
- 401k
- Financial Planning Benefit through Origin
- Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being
- New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
- ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
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