As an HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will act as a strategic, trusted advisor and thought partner to business leaders across client groups within our distributed, high-growth workforce (~30 states). You will connect team strategy directly to business goals, using data to help managers lead better, build stronger teams, and get work done. This is a hands-on role that requires strong judgment, discretion, and the executive presence to earn credibility with first-time managers navigating real people challenges. This role reports to the VP of HR.
Manager Coaching & Leadership Development
- Serve as trusted advisor and coach to leaders at all levels, with a dedicated focus on building core leadership skills for first time and newly promoted managers.
- Design and facilitate manager development initiatives, leadership training, and tools that strengthen people leadership across the organization.
- Partner with managers on performance management, including feedback, difficult conversations, performance improvement plans, and day-to-day HR decisions.
Strategic Partnership & Rhythm of the Business
- Own the ongoing rhythm of the business for assigned client groups, leading performance management cycles, engagement and retention strategies.
- Drive continuous workforce planning, headcount management, and organization design conversations to ensure teams are structured for growth, efficiency, and long-term capability.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve people programs, policies, and processes that scale with the organization's growth.
- Lead annual talent review processes, performance calibrations, succession planning, and identification of high-potential employees across client groups.
- Proactively navigate HR matters across distributed, multi-state workforce.
Employee Relations & Investigations
- Lead employee relations matters and workplace investigations independently, maintaining sound judgment from intake through resolution.
- Serve as a point of escalation for workplace conflicts.
- Partner with legal counsel and HR leadership on high-risk, complex compliance matters across a multi-state remote/distributed environment.
People Analytics & Compensation
- Analyze key HR metrics (turnover, attrition drivers, engagement trends, performance distribution) to identify root causes and recommend actions to leadership.
- Partner with HR leadership to drive performance and merit reviews, equity compensation reviews, and promotions.
Talent Acquisition
- Partner closely with recruiting to align headcount priorities and define talent profiles.
- Embed inclusive hiring, development, and retention practices across all client group talent initiatives.
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 5+ years in a HR Business Partner or similar advisory capacity.
- Bachelor's and/or Master's degree in HR, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience); HR certification preferred.
- Strong executive presence to engage with all levels of leadership.
- Demonstrated experience coaching and developing leaders, specifically first-time or newly promoted managers, including designing or facilitating leadership training programs.
- Experience designing, building, or scaling HR programs, policies, and processes in a high-growth environment.
- Demonstrated capability using HR analytics and financial/operational metrics to diagnose problems and propose talent solutions.
- Strong track record leading employee relations investigations independently, with sound judgment on when to escalate.
- Experience driving change management initiatives in a high-growth environment.
- HRIS Implementation experience, or hands-on Paylocity or Workday experience, is a strong plus.
- Experience operating in a fast-paced, high-growth health tech, life sciences, or similarly regulated tech environment required.
- Exposure to job architecture, career frameworks, or leveling structures is a plus, but not required.
- Working knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws, and the ability to navigate state law across a multi-state workforce.
- Comfort operating with limited guidance in a fast-changing, entrepreneurial environment.
- Onsite role in our Washington, D.C. office 2 days per week.
Candidate must be able to submit verification of their legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship.
Salary Range: $125,000-$150,000
