HR Business Partner Director
The Position
FanDuel is seeking a Director, HR Business Partner to join our HRBP team. This role will partner with senior leaders to shape and deliver people strategies that drive business performance, strengthen organizational effectiveness, and support teams through ongoing change.
This role will be energized by a fast-moving business environment and will require strong business acumen, organizational design experience, change management capability, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders.
The Game Plan
- Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities into people strategies that improve performance, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.
- Advise on organizational design, including structure, role clarity, capability needs, decision rights, spans and layers, and ways of working.
- Support leaders and teams through change by driving alignment, clear communication, adoption, and accountability.
- Diagnose complex people and organizational issues, identify root causes, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend practical solutions.
- Use data, insights, and judgment to influence decisions and measure the impact of people strategies.
- Coach and challenge leaders on talent, performance, leadership effectiveness, culture, engagement, and risk.
- Support a range of employee populations and business contexts, flexing your approach while maintaining a high bar for partnership and execution.
- Partner across the People Team, including Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Total Rewards, Legal, Employee Relations, and People Analytics, to deliver integrated solutions.
- Lead core HRBP work with excellence, including talent planning, performance management, employee relations, workforce planning, succession, engagement, and organizational change.
- Help evolve the HRBP function by modeling proactive, business-first partnership and contributing to stronger tools, standards, and ways of working.
The Stats
- Minimum of 5 years of HR Business Partner experience, including direct partnership with senior leaders.
- Experience operating in fast-paced, complex, high-change environments.
- Strong organizational design experience, including structure, operating model, role clarity, capability needs, and organizational effectiveness.
- Change management experience, including stakeholder alignment, communication, resistance management, and adoption.
- Ability to influence, coach, and challenge senior leaders with confidence and sound judgment.
- Experience supporting different business functions, employee populations, or leadership styles.
- Ability to diagnose complex issues, evaluate trade-offs, and make clear recommendations.
- Comfort using data, insights, and judgment to guide decisions.
- Strong HR functional depth across talent management, performance management, employee relations, workforce planning, engagement, culture, leadership effectiveness, and risk.
- Experience managing and/or mentoring others.
About FanDuel
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.
In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
Player Benefits
- Affordable health plans with programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
- Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave).
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance).
- 401(k) with up to a 5% match.
- Commuter benefits.
- Pet insurance.
- Other employee benefits.
This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
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