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Director, People Business Partner

People OperationsPeople OperationsFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California + 4 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Washington

Posted

2 days ago

Salary

$226K - $335K / year

Seniority

Lead

Postgraduate Degree12 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Director, People Business Partner

Affirm

• Take the lead in driving large-scale organizational change initiatives across the Engineering Org, partnering with senior leadership to manage transitions, maximize employee buy-in/mitigate resistance, and ensure smooth integration during periods of transformation, mergers, or acquisitions. • Drive leadership development initiatives, including executive coaching and succession planning, ensuring that the organization’s leadership pipeline is robust, diverse, and ready to meet future business challenges. • Oversee the facilitation and strategic alignment of all talent development programs, working with internal teams to ensure that learning, career development, and mobility programs align with organizational priorities and foster continuous growth. • Take ownership of improving organizational effectiveness, employee satisfaction, and overall workforce experience by developing and implementing targeted interventions based on a deep understanding of employee needs and business priorities. • Collaborate with the senior leadership team to drive organizational alignment, ensuring that business strategies are supported by effective talent, leadership, and people practices that enhance both individual and collective performance. • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, coaching them on complex people challenges, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness to elevate leadership capabilities and improve team performance. • Partner with senior executives and leadership teams to execute forward-thinking talent strategies that directly support business growth, enhance organizational capability, and drive high performance across the business. • Work in close partnership with the broader People team COEs to drive organizational culture initiatives that reinforce a high-performance mindset, foster employee engagement, and promote a collaborative, inclusive environment across all levels of the organization. • Provide guidance on organizational design, people strategy, and talent architecture, ensuring seamless alignment between organizational needs, business priorities, and people-related initiatives at an enterprise-wide level. • Lead the execution of comprehensive talent management strategies, including performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and high-potential development, ensuring a pipeline of future leaders aligned with business needs. • Lead efforts to implement strategic workforce planning initiatives, ensuring that talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies align with the organization’s evolving business goals and objectives. • Leverage advanced people analytics to provide actionable insights into workforce trends, employee engagement, retention, and other key performance metrics, driving data-driven decision-making at the senior leadership level.

Job Requirements

  • 12+ years in People related roles with 5+ years experience as a PBP or similar role
  • 4+ years as a people manager
  • Prior experience partnering with the Tech org/Engineering is required
  • Demonstrated experience of coaching leaders through performance management and employee relations issues
  • Effective listener and persuasive communicator able to influence actions and outcomes at all levels
  • Intellectual curiosity about people and organizational issues with strong business acumen
  • Experience establishing relationships as a trusted advisor to executive team members
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate clearly and concisely
  • Strong project management, change management, problem solving and analytical skills
  • A do-er mentality with the ability to translate vision into action
  • Previous experience working in fast-paced environments and helping organizations scale

Benefits

  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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