Director of People Business Partnering

Do you ever wonder what happens inside the cloud?

DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) simplifies cloud computing so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With our mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean enables startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to rapidly deploy and scale modern applications. As a remote-first organization, our employees, like our customers, are based around the world.

At DigitalOcean, we're not just simplifying cloud computing - we're revolutionizing it. We serve the developer community and the businesses they build with a relentless pursuit of simplicity. With our customers at the heart of what we do - and powered by a diverse culture that values boldness, speed, simplicity, ownership, and a growth mindset - we are committed to building truly useful products. Come swim with us! 

We want people who are passionate about supporting people and making sure our teams are strategic and thoughtful about enabling and developing their talent to drive performance.

As the Director of People Business Partner, you will act as a key strategic partner with the Product and Technology senior leadership team. You will be an integral part of the team; working to grow people programming, tools, and strategic insights to develop and deliver value to our team. You will be a resource to our leadership team, people managers, and employees, helping drive effective and impactful operations and employee engagement. You’ll be charged with handling day-to-day ER issues and strategic talent & compensation planning activities. And finally, you’ll be instrumental in scaling our growing company, championing our values and ensuring that DigitalOcean remains a great place to work.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Partner with a global leadership and People team as an advocate, resource, and frontline for your client groups.
• Strategize in support of business objectives for how we staff, onboard, develop, motivate and organize work.
• Provide HR guidance and support to the assigned business area across a breadth of areas including workforce planning & organizational design, talent management, employee development, performance management and change management.
• Leverage analytics and data to drive thoughtful workforce planning and serve as a strategic partner both internally to the people team and externally to your clients.
• Play an instrumental role in building our high-performance culture by ensuring that all DO employees are receiving the support they need to perform at their full potential.  
• Offer guidance to leadership in the following areas: talent planning, performance management, compensation planning, employee relations, benefits and talent development
• Facilitate talent reviews and succession planning discussions and work with the business to ensure plans are actively put into practice.
• Acting as a liaison with our Talent Acquisition, OrgDev, Total Rewards, and People Operations teams to ensure proper delivery and impact of programs
• Knowledgeable in labor and employment laws, policies and processes, in depth knowledge of India, Pakistan and UAE is a plus.
• Provide feedback or create employee focused programs or processes. 
• Experience in working with a HRIS system ideally Workday 

What You’ll Add to DigitalOcean:

• Experience as a Senior HR business partner, ideally in a technology organization that has experienced massive growth. You should be able to understand the operational areas of the business so that you can help our managers and leaders with complex challenges, and give guidance on People topics.
• Experience implementing people programs including compensation, performance feedback, HR compliance, and professional growth & development initiatives.
• Ability to work proactively in addressing people related opportunities and getting ahead of people challenges faced by our business.
• Passion for change management and guiding our business through ambiguity and constant evolution / iteration.
• Experience building relationships and collaborating with key stakeholders. Highly self-motivated and driven, able to work well in both team environments and independently.
• The ability to effectively translate metrics and data into actionable strategy.
• Technical curiosity and knowledge of emerging best practice trends in HR products and services.
• A deep sense of empathy. You connect well with employees of all levels and understand their needs.
• A friendly and approachable communication style where both ICs and managers are comfortable confiding in you.
• A belief in a People-first approach to building teams and driving effective per