Director, People Business Partner

About the role

The People Business Partner (PBP) plays a critical role in shaping the future of Affirm’s workforce by partnering with senior leadership to drive organizational change, talent development, and culture initiatives. This role requires extensive experience in people management and strategic partnerships with the engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale organizational change initiatives across the Engineering Org, managing transitions, mitigating resistance, and ensuring smooth integration during periods of transformation, mergers, or acquisitions.
• Drive leadership development initiatives, including executive coaching and succession planning, to ensure a robust and diverse leadership pipeline.
• Facilitate and align talent development programs, ensuring they align with organizational priorities and foster continuous growth.
• Improve organizational effectiveness, employee satisfaction, and workforce experience through targeted interventions based on employee needs and business priorities.
• Partner with senior leadership to drive organizational alignment, supporting business strategies with effective talent, leadership, and people practices.
• Execute forward-thinking talent strategies that support business growth, enhance organizational capability, and drive high performance across the business.
• Establish and maintain relationships as a trusted advisor to executive team members, coaching on complex people challenges, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.
• Implement strategic workforce planning initiatives, ensuring talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies align with evolving business goals and objectives.
• Leverage advanced people analytics to provide actionable insights into workforce trends, employee engagement, retention, and other key performance metrics.

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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Skills

• Advanced people analytics.
• Leadership development.
• Talent management.
• Organizational design.
• Culture initiatives.
• Performance management.
• Succession planning.
• High-potential development.
• Strategic workforce planning.

Benefits

At Affirm, we offer a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Health care coverage
• Flexible Spending Wallets
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental, and vision for you and your dependents