Senior HR Business Partner

What You Will Be Doing

• Business partnership and organization effectiveness.
  • Build a deep understanding of assigned teams, their goals, and their operating context.
    • Advise leaders on organization design, role clarity, team effectiveness, workforce planning, spans and layers, and talent priorities.
  • Manager coaching and employee relations.
    • Serve as a first point of contact for managers and employees.
      • Coach leaders through performance, feedback, conflict, attendance, accommodations, leaves, conduct, and workplace concerns; conduct or support fair, timely investigations; and partner with Legal or outside counsel when appropriate.
  • Performance and talent management.
    • Lead the business-facing work for performance reviews, goal setting, talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, promotions, and corrective action.
      • Help managers raise the quality and consistency of feedback and talent decisions.
  • Compensation and leveling.
    • Partner with People leadership and Finance on compensation planning, job leveling, pay decisions, promotions, and retention actions.
      • Apply established frameworks consistently and identify where clearer guidance or calibration is needed.
  • Organizational change.
    • Plan and execute reorganizations, leadership transitions, and other changes with sound judgment, clear communication, careful documentation, and respect for the employee experience.
      • Support compliant and well-coordinated offboarding and termination processes.
  • Employee experience and culture.
    • Maintain an intentional listening cadence through employee check-ins, office hours, focus groups, and targeted outreach.
      • Surface themes, distinguish individual concerns from systemic issues, and partner with leaders on practical actions.
  • People programs and operations.
    • Translate company-wide programs and policies into effective execution within the business.
      • Partner with People Operations and Recruiting across hiring, onboarding, engagement, mobility, leaves, and offboarding; improve processes where ownership or handoffs are unclear.
  • Insights and risk management.
    • Use workforce data and qualitative signals to identify trends in attrition, engagement, performance, manager effectiveness, and organizational health.
      • Provide leaders with clear recommendations while maintaining accurate, confidential case documentation and consistent practices.

  What We Are Looking For

  • 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including substantial experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or broad HR generalist role supporting leaders and employees.
    • Demonstrated success advising senior leaders and coaching managers through complex employee relations, performance, organizational, and talent decisions.
  • Working knowledge of California and multi-state U.S. employment practices, with the judgment to recognize when specialized legal guidance is needed.
    • Experience owning or materially contributing to core people cycles such as performance reviews, compensation planning, promotions, talent reviews, engagement, and workforce planning.
  • Strong business acumen and analytical skill; able to connect people data and employee feedback to operating priorities and concrete recommendations.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to adapt your approach across employees, managers, and executives.
  • Sound judgment, discretion, and consistency when handling sensitive information and high-stakes decisions.
    • A practical, low-ego operating style: organized, responsive, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to move between strategic advice and detailed execution.

  Pay

  $120,000 - $155,000 a year

  What You Get From Us

  • Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
  • Competitive health benefits
  • VGS stock options
  • 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
  • Life & disability insurance
  • Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
  • New hire home office set-up allowance
  • Professional learning reimbursement

  About the Role

  VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization. We provide processor-agnostic tokenization solutions to empower our clients and partners by tokenizing sensitive payment data, limiting compliance scope, and consolidating payments to unlock revenue and business opportunities.