Director, People Partnerships

TL;DR

Director, People Partnerships (HR): Lead the HRBP function serving as advisor on organizational design, leadership effectiveness, employee experience, and culture with an accent on building manager capability, guiding change, and scaling people programs. Focus on handling complex employee relations, driving talent management, and optimizing HR processes.

Location: Seattle-based company considering remote/hybrid candidates from the US with travel expected 2-3 times per year for company events.

Salary: $150,000 - $210,000 (base) + bonus eligible

Company

Seattle-based healthcare leader developing evidence-based content and innovative products to improve patient care, backed by Hearst.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and scale a team of People Business Partners for talent planning, performance, compensation, engagement, and retention.
• Advise executive leadership on workforce plans, organizational design, and change management.
• Own complex employee relations cases, investigations, and risk mitigation.
• Drive talent management, succession planning, leadership development, and retention strategies.
• Partner with People Team centers of excellence to identify trends and improve programs.
• Build manager capability through coaching on performance, career discussions, and inclusive leadership.
• Optimize HR processes, tools, and automation across the HRBP function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology or related.
• 10+ years HR experience including 5+ years in HR Business Partnership or organizational development.
• Leadership experience managing HRBP teams and coaching senior leaders.
• Proven handling of complex employee relations and change initiatives.
• Strong data literacy with people analytics; experience with HRIS, Tableau/Power BI, HR case tools.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience in fast-growing or matrixed organizations and remote team leadership.

Nice to have

• HR certification (SHRM-SCP, SPHR).
• Experience with collaborative tools like Atlassian, HR systems like Lattice, Pequity, Greenhouse.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote/hybrid work with occasional travel for events.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance; 401K, FSA, HSA.
• 15+ PTO days, 14 holidays, paid volunteer days, up to 8+10 weeks parental leave.
• LGBTQ+ health services, pet insurance.
• Diversity, equity, inclusion focus; accommodations available.

Hiring process

• May use AI tools for interview audio-recording and transcription for note-taking.
• Committed to equal opportunity and accommodations.