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 driving large-scale organizational change initiatives, scaling culture, and ensuring a high-performance environment. They partner with senior leadership to manage transitions, mitigate resistance, and integrate changes smoothly. The PBP also oversees leadership development, talent development programs, and organizational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• 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, 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.
• 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.
• Collaborate 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.
• 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.

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

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced environments and helping organizations scale
• Experience working with advanced people analytics
• Experience in organizational design, people strategy, and talent architecture

Skills

• Strategic thinking and execution
• Leadership development and succession planning
• Talent management and development
• Organizational change management
• People analytics and data-driven decision making

Benefits

Base pay range: $226,000 - $306,000
Equity grade: 13