People Business Partner

About SonderMind

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About The Role

At SonderMind, we believe that an exceptional employee experience fuels performance, belonging, and growth. As a People Business Partner, you’ll serve as a strategic and operational HR leader to executives, managers, and teams, helping to build the programs, processes, and moments that define how our people strategies align with business priorities.

You’ll act as the primary strategic HR partner for our non-exempt support, service, finance, and legal functional leaders, from line managers to executives. You’ll design and deliver targeted solutions with a high degree of focus on scale and growth, including strategic planning, visioning, performance management, talent assessment, change management, and team building.

You’ll manage and facilitate company programming, like but not limited to: Career Connect (performance reviews), calibrations, manager workshops, and engagement survey readouts/action planning. You’ll support business priorities with people strategies by diagnosing organizational needs, identifying talent gaps, and partnering with leaders to design and implement practical talent solutions that scale.

You’ll leverage your expertise to perform as a functional SME in one or more areas of the People function for SonderMind, being a critical leader in that space. You’ll use insights and data to anticipate people-related challenges, propose proactive solutions, and contribute to the People Team strategy and planning.

You’ll manage HRIS updates, employee records, and update operational workflows to ensure data accuracy and a smooth employee experience; leverage AI-based tools to replace tasks or do work more effectively.

What You'll Do

• Act as the primary strategic HR partner for our non-exempt support, service, finance and legal functional leaders, from line managers to executives
• Design and deliver targeted solutions with a high degree of focus on scale and growth, including strategic planning, visioning, performance management, talent assessment, change management, and team building
• Manage and facilitate company programming, like but not limited to: Career Connect (performance reviews), calibrations, manager workshops, and engagement survey readouts/action planning
• Support business priorities with people strategies by diagnosing organizational needs, identifying talent gaps, and partnering with leaders to design and implement practical talent solutions that scale
• Leverage your expertise to perform as a functional SME in one or more areas of the People function for SonderMind, being a critical leader in that space
• Use insights and data to anticipate people-related challenges, propose proactive solutions, and contribute to the People Team strategy and planning
• Manage HRIS updates, employee records, and update operational workflows to ensure data accuracy and a smooth employee experience; leverage AI-based tools to replace tasks or do work more effectively

Who You Are

• 5+ years of professional HR experience, especially supporting service or sales leadership. Experience helping global and/or highly matrixed organizations scale.
• Confidence navigating spreadsheets, HRIS platforms, and employee data. Solid knowledge of HR fundamentals, including policies, processes, and employee lifecycle best practices.
• Proven experience building trust and strong partnerships, especially with executive-level leadership.
• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business.
• Strong consulting, coaching, and facilitation skills.
• Effective communication and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrates empathy and experience driving community-building work.
• A proactive, resourceful mindset in the face of ambiguity.
• Experience supporting non-exempt or hourly employee populations.

Our Benefits

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off per year
• Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in our medical plans to participate)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA ($1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
• Employer-paid short-term, long-term disability, life & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to seven (7) weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period) should you need to use it.
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition which allows between 8-16 weeks of paid leave)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching which immediately vests on up to 4% of base salary
• Travel to Denver 1x a year for annual Shift gathering
• Fourteen (14) company holidays
• Company Shutdown between Christmas and New Years
• Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance coverage, commuter benefits and more!

Pay and Schedule

The anticipated salary rate for this role is between $112,000 - $126,000 per year.

Benefits

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off per year
• Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in our medical plans to participate)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA ($1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
• Employer-paid short-term, long-term disability, life & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to seven (7) weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period) should you need to use it.
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition which allows between 8-16 weeks of paid leave)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching which immediately vests on up to 4% of base salary
• Travel to Denver 1x a year for annual Shift gathering
• Fourteen (14) company holidays
• Company Shutdown between Christmas and New Years
• Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance coverage, commuter benefits and more!

Schedule

Flexible hybrid work schedule.

Equal Opportunity

SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.