Principal Employee Relations Partner

Location: Mountain View, California; hybrid role requiring work from the office 3 days per week.

Base pay: $189,500–$256,000 per year in Mountain View; the position may also be eligible for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial technology platform serving tens of millions of customers through products including TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp.

What you will do

• Advise senior leaders, People & Places leadership, and HR partners on complex employee relations, organizational health, culture, and workforce matters.
• Lead highly sensitive and high-risk situations, including executive escalations, organizational disruption, large-scale job eliminations, complex exits, and reputationally sensitive matters.
• Design and evolve enterprise-wide ER frameworks, standards, operating models, playbooks, and tools.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with ER, HRBPs, Ethics & Investigations, Employment Legal, Work-Life Events, and other Centers of Excellence.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to diagnose organizational health, identify risks and root causes, and recommend strategic actions.
• Mentor ER team members, build specialized capability, support facilitated conversations and restorative practices, and drive continuous improvement including AI-enabled tools.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Employee Relations, HR Business Partner, workplace investigations, organizational consulting, or a related area, including significant experience with highly complex and sensitive employee matters.
• Deep expertise in executive-level situations, organizational change, workforce reductions, complex performance matters, and culture-related escalations.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Ability to influence and partner with senior executives, HR leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
• Strategic thinking that balances employee experience, business priorities, organizational risk, and long-term cultural impact.
• Experience designing scalable programs, frameworks, playbooks, and operating models across a global organization.
• Exceptional executive communication, critical thinking, judgment, organizational diagnosis, and ability to synthesize complex information into recommendations and leadership communications.
• Experience using data and insights to inform strategy, assess organizational health, and influence decisions.
• Strong interpersonal effectiveness, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and facilitation skills for emotionally charged or polarizing situations.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, align diverse stakeholders, execute in a fast-paced environment, develop others, and continuously improve employee and leader experiences.

Nice to have

• J.D., Master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working across global regions and navigating varying cultural, legal, and organizational contexts.

Culture & Benefits

• People & Places supports a high-trust, high-performance culture focused on employee connection, support, growth, inclusion, engagement, and performance.
• Hybrid work arrangement with three office days per week.
• Competitive compensation with pay-for-performance rewards.
• Potential eligibility for cash bonus, equity rewards, and benefits under applicable plans and programs.
• Commitment to fair pay through regular comparisons across ethnicity and gender categories.