Senior People Business Partner, GTM

About Us

Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. We've pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and have been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today, there are 50,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 5,100 dbt Cloud customers.   As of February 2025, we surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), scaling from $2M ARR to this milestone in only four years. Simultaneously, we've exceeded the 5,000 customer mark, with 85% year-over-year growth in adoption among Fortune 500 companies. This momentum is fueled by dbt’s critical role as the data control plane for enterprise data teams around the world, who rely on the technology to transform data into reliable, actionable business insights. We're rapidly growing and looking for passionate people to join our global team. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values here.  

Your Impact:

As a Sr. People Business Partner supporting our rapidly growing Go To Market (GTM) organization, your role is vital to align people strategies with business goals, ensuring the organization is prepared to meet its ever-changing future needs. By closely collaborating with senior leaders and managers, you will be able to develop leaders and teams, drive organizational effectiveness, engage our employees, foster an inclusive culture, and prioritize the highest impact solutions. 

This remote-friendly role reports to the Director, People Business Partners and works closely with other functions across the People Team to deliver key talent and people-focused initiatives. 

We are at the stage of company growth where this role will spend time daily on both strategic and tactical areas of focus and work. There’s opportunity for massive strategic impact in being partnered directly with C- and VP level Go To Market leaders across the globe, while also rolling up your sleeves and contributing to the programs and processes that maintain and enhance the rhythm of the business. If you’re both an advisor and a doer, this is the role for you. 

What You'll Do:

• Serve as a trusted thought partner, consultant, and coach to senior leaders across the Go To Market organization
• Be the primary point of contact on all people related matters for team members at all levels in the respective groups you support
• Collaborate and coordinate with leaders, finance, and talent acquisition teams on workforce planning, focusing on talent development, retention, and growth opportunities
• Execute key People processes, including compensation planning, performance reviews, engagement surveys, and other People programs within designated groups
• Collaborate with managers to assess employee performance, identify growth opportunities, and recommend appropriate development initiatives
• Collect and analyze data to deliver insights and drive recommendations that support the business
• Implement people solutions that meet the needs of the business, such as change management, leadership development, and organizational design initiatives
• Provide guidance and support to business leaders through organizational changes, growth, challenges, and other key business matters
• Work with leadership on succession planning, identifying critical roles within the organization and developing strategies to maintain a robust talent pipeline
• Support or lead special projects, such as process optimization, policy implementation, and facilitating high-performance team workshops

What You Bring Along:

• 7+ years of HR Business Partner experience, partnering directly with senior leaders
• You’ve lived and breathed Sales and GTM, which accelerates your ability to gain trust and establish credibility 
• Ability to establish relationships and partnerships at all levels of the organization, including worked with and supported C- and VP level executives
• While not expected to be an expert at statutory requirements of all countries around the world, you have firsthand experience working for a high-growth company during their international expansion phase
• Exhibit strong leadership and influencing skills, and design, implement, and lead change management initiatives
• Proven track record demonstrating agility in an ever changing environment
• Critical thinking skills with creativity and the grit to skillfully problem solve and navigate dynamic, ambiguous situations
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