Principal People Partner
Job Summary
The Principal People Partner serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving people and organizational strategies that enable and empower our leaders to lead their teams to achieve their highest-impact goals and drive success across the business.
Key Responsibilities
Lead senior management in translating business strategy into a talent strategy that embeds and reinforces our culture and drives success across our business.
Align people strategies with business objectives, partnering with leaders to understand their goals and provide guidance on organizational design and development, all aspects of talent management, workforce planning and management, performance development, total rewards, and experience and benchmarking across the team member lifecycle.
Serve as a strategic consultant to leaders, analyzing trends and metrics to identify gaps and patterns and develop solutions, programs, and policies that drive the best business outcomes.
Lead and support organizational change initiatives, including org design, leadership transitions, reporting structure changes, and People & Talent programs.
Guide leaders and teams through periods of transformation, developing comprehensive change management and communication plans in order to maximize change adoption and minimize risk and negative impact to the business and organization.
Advise people leaders on matters related to team member relations, performance management, and conflict resolution.
Maintain in-depth knowledge of employment laws, regulations, and best practices to identify, manage, and mitigate risk.
Manage and resolve common-to-complex team member relations issues.
Support and develop as the subject matter expert, organizational policy changes and collaborate on cascading communication strategies.
Partner with leaders and People Partners to interpret engagement data and recommend action plans.
Develop and execute targeted retention initiatives for critical team member groups.
Support with Executive and Senior leadership onboarding and offboarding experiences.
Demonstrate proficiency in HR systems (Workday, Greenhouse, Culture Amp, Google Suite, Slack), serving as a resource for configuration, user support, and effective adoption.
Leverage technology to enhance program delivery, data analysis, and reporting.
Qualifications
12+ years of progressive HR experience, related business industry experience, or leading teams with HR-related functions, or a combination of related experience/education.
8+ years in an HR Business Partner/People Partner role or equivalent partnering with multiple executives.
High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
Prior experience supporting one or more of the following functional areas: Insurance Underwriting, Claims, Customer Service / Support and/or Operations, Sales, Marketing and/or Business Development, inclusive of knowledge of incentive plan design, Engineering, Product Development, Technology.
Proficient in Workday and collaboration tools (Slack, Google Suite).
Experience with Greenhouse and Culture Amp preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive cash compensation
Comprehensive health plans
Generous PTO
Future-focused 401k match
Generous parental and caregiver leave
Company Values
Ownership: Leads with a one-team, extreme ownership mindset, We Are The They
Critical Thinking: Leverages first principles, integrative thinking, and Pie's Collaboration and Decision-Making Framework (CDMF) for designing the data-driven, maximum win/win solutions, considering all stakeholder needs, impacts and interdependencies.
Growth Mindset: Models growth mindset and accurate self assessment while remaining genuinely open to feedback. Demonstrates humility by learning from diverse sources, creating a culture where admitting gaps and mistakes is productive and safe. Develops resilience strategies for self and work and others within their sphere of influence. Demonstrates grit by persevering through obstacles. Demonstrates flexibility by proactively changing approaches when strategies and tactics aren’t working and adapts readily to changing circumstances.
Collaboration & Influence: Creates needs-based solutions across team boundaries that serve organizational/functional interests first, consistently putting broader org/function needs ahead of team or personal interests. Builds high candor, high trust, high context relationships across all boundaries within the organization, maximizing operational effectiveness, even with competing priorities and resource constraints. Addresses systemic causes of conflict while effectively resolving disagreements. Lead with first team commitment to the function balanced with service to the organization.
Strategy: Develops 6-month to multi-year strategies integrated with functional and organizational objectives. Creates clear strategic narratives that connect their work to functional priorities. Deeply understands operations within their functional domain and understands operations within their business domain. Recognizes how market and industry shifts impact medium term strategy, both functionally and within the business.
Communication: Writes and speaks with accuracy, clarity and influence with audiences within and outside of functional area at all levels, including the CEO, and across different formats and channels. Creates clear and highly compelling narratives that influence strategy. Communicates directly and respectfully and actively minimizing triangulation and gossip. Makes thoughtful requests solving for intersection of stakeholder needs, avoiding demands and building alignment across competing priorities. Functions as a stabilizing influence during high-stakes situations. Maintains composure and clarity in the most challenging organizational challenges and stress.
Execution: Manages multiple initiatives delivering high impact results, acting as force multiplier through effective delegation, empowerment, and building infrastructure to support scale. Drives operational frameworks to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Identifies opportunities for improving performance and consistently overcomes significant obstacles. Takes ownership of complex challenges beyond immediate scope, demonstrating broader functional and organizational thinking.
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