Senior Business & People Experience Partner

Position Summary

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Executive Support

• Serve as a strategic partner to C-suite leaders, managing executive priorities, aligning calendars to business goals, and facilitating travel, expense reporting and critical leadership engagements.
• Own cross-functional coordination and communication for key initiatives, leadership forums, and executive project management.
• Prepare briefing materials, compile and analyze data, and develop presentations to ensure executives are fully informed and ready for internal meetings, external engagements, and strategic decision-making.
• Maintain a pulse on business cadence, ensuring executive workflows are forward-looking, efficient, and aligned with organizational priorities.

People Capabilities Partnership

• Collaborate closely with the Director, People Capabilities to operationalize talent strategies that drive engagement, performance, and retention post-acquisition.
• Support key people programs such as onboarding, compliance tracking, employee engagement initiatives, and change management communications.
• Act as a project lead or coordinator on special initiatives such as workforce planning, DEI initiatives, and talent development.
• Help scale people operations by streamlining systems, improving internal processes, and ensuring a consistent employee experience across locations.

Workplace & Culture Operations

• Lead strategic office and facilities operations to support an engaging, inclusive, and high-performance environment in the Raleigh location.
• Champion internal communications, recognition programs, and site-level employee events that foster connection and cultural alignment.
• Serve as the point person for day-to-day office needs, managing vendors, space planning, and creating an exceptional in-office experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a combined HR operations, executive support, or chief of staff-type role within a high-growth or dynamic organization.
• Experience navigating post-acquisition environments or organizational change preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels; comfortable rolling up sleeves while thinking ahead.
• Strong business acumen with exceptional communication, project management, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency in productivity tools and systems (Workday, Concur, Microsoft Office, Teams, etc.); adept at building structure from ambiguity.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You Are:

• A strategic operator who excels at connecting the dots across people, processes, and priorities.
• A proactive problem-solver who anticipates needs and manages complexity with calm and clarity.
• A culture builder who brings high EQ, strong judgment, and a passion for employee experience.
• A trusted partner who brings discretion, agility, and a strong sense of ownership.

Join us in shaping the future of Grover Charitable Gaming at Light & Wonder—where purpose meets possibility.

Qualifications

Physical Requirements:   

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and ability to adjust focus working with computer and business equipment. 

Work Conditions:  

• The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations 

Light & Wonder and its affiliates (collectively, L&W) are engaged in highly regulated gaming businesses.   As a result, certain L&W employees may, among other things, be required to obtain a gaming or other license(s), undergo background investigations or security checks, or meet certain standards dictated by law, regulation or contracts.   In order to ensure L&W