Principal People Insights Partner (AI)

Location: Hybrid role with preference for candidates in Canada (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal) or the United States (Denver, Portland, San Francisco, Boston)

Salary: CAD 113,000–165,000 annual base salary for Canada-based roles; offers may vary by experience and geographic location.

Company

hirify.global develops software that helps innovators design and make buildings, products, factories, vehicles, and entertainment.

What you will do

• Build trusted partnerships with People & Places Centers of Excellence and leaders, tailoring deliverables to specific business decisions.
• Combine business context with evidence from people data science, employee listening and research, and AI strategy teams.
• Reframe ambiguous requests into decision-focused evidence questions and coordinate the delivery of briefs, dashboards, research findings, models, or analytical tools.
• Interpret signals in context, connect evidence with trade-offs, recommend actionable directions, and influence useful KPIs.
• Identify when recurring analytical needs should become durable products and hand qualified opportunities to Tech Product Managers without owning the roadmap or backlog.
• Mentor Insights Partners and researchers while helping set standards for research design, data quality, and ethical handling of sensitive employee data.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience using people or business data to inform decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders, and building alignment without direct authority.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis, data visualization, and decision-ready narrative skills.
• Working fluency in mixed-methods research, causal inference, and experimental design.
• Comfort working directly with structured data using SQL or another querying or analysis language, as well as with databases and large datasets.
• Direct experience using AI tools for research, analysis, and synthesis, plus exposure to HR technology and vendor landscapes.

Nice to have

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Statistics, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience in people analytics or HR, including HR business partnering, compensation, talent, or diversity and belonging.
• Experience distinguishing insight work from product work in a technology-enabled organization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with location-based compensation ranges.
• Comprehensive benefits package and potential annual cash bonuses or stock grants.
• In-person onboarding and/or identity verification may be required.
• Work focused on improving how a global workforce is understood and supported.