Staff People Business Partner

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

Job Description

About the Role:

Guardant Health People Business Partners are responsible for helping business unit leaders and their leadership teams develop and implement a people and culture strategy that best supports their business needs. They act as coaches, trusted advisors, change agents, consultants, and thought partners on all things talent within the business. They work closely with other teams within the People Team to perform their role and responsibilities, including Employee Experience, Total Rewards, Learning & Development,  Talent Acquisition, People Operations, and Employee Relations.  
 
This Staff People Business Partner role is the ideal opportunity for someone with extensive HR functional knowledge and thrives in having multiple and different strategic interactions with business leaders, and excels at facilitating annual talent activities (ex: performance management cycles, employee engagement surveys, etc). 
 
The role is based out of our Palo Alto, location and requires in-office attendance 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday).    

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategy and execution 
• Adopts the culture of the organization and embodies our values and leadership principles 
• Develops a understanding of the business to appropriately guide and influence leaders on their talent agenda 
• Applies expertise in the following areas: performance management, career planning, coaching, analysis of people data, compensation, complex employee relations issues, learning and development, and recognition programs.  
• Leverages data and other metrics to proactively identify and present solutions based on business needs. Identifies and surfaces trends through both qualitative and quantitative data to help drive impact in the business 
• Partners and drives results alongside other Centers of Excellence in the People Team (i.e. Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Learning & Development) to help the People Team implement solutions that support and scale the business 
• Leads the people cycles throughout the year to include compensation reviews, performance evaluations, engagement survey action planning, talent reviews and calibrations and promotion evaluations 

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience 
• 8+ years of HR experience creating measurable impact on a major business unit (preferably in a high-growth company) with at least 5 years of experience as a People Business Partner (preferably supporting C-suite leadership managing G&A functions) 
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Senior Leadership (i.e. Vice President level) 
• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business 
• Ability to solve challenges and get to the root cause of any issue, no matter how complex. Design and quickly implement solutions that may cut across multiple disciplines.  
• Experience influencing