Sr. People Business Partner/Director

Who We Are

UnitedMasters is building a marketplace that connects artists, brands and fans - empowering artists to earn and grow. UnitedMasters has taken the bold step of building a music distribution service that, radically, puts artists first - disrupting the legacy music business by letting up-and-coming artists distribute their music directly to fans through streaming services while maintaining ownership of their master recording rights and up to 100% of royalties. Through the combination of UnitedMasters’ music distribution platform and its deep ties to brands, UnitedMasters enables independent artists and change-makers to grow and earn unlike any other platform.

The UnitedMasters team is made up of musicians, marketers, engineers, and storytellers with backgrounds from YouTube, SoundCloud, Pandora, Facebook, Uber, Dropbox, Complex, VICE, and more. We work hand in hand with the award-winning creative teams that forge those innovative partnerships at Translation (our in-house creative advertising agency).

We are looking for a Sr. People Business Partner (Director) to join UnitedMasters! You will play a key leadership role in developing and implementing people strategies that align with the organization’s business strategy and objective, and help to create a compelling employee value proposition, enhanced employee engagement, and high performing teams for the clients you support. UMT People Partners must be highly credible, approachable and experienced at providing advice and counsel to senior leaders, managers and employees. You will be expected to be a trusted advisor to management and an employee advocate and have the experience and judgment to balance the needs of stakeholders.

Please note this is a hybrid position based in our Brooklyn, NY Office and will be expected to be in the office 3 days a week.

What You'll Do

• Consult with business leaders to translate business strategies and objectives into a People roadmap.
• Serves to coach, advise, partner, and provide people leadership and guidance to client areas to both influence and deliver on people objectives aligned to business priorities.
• Coach leaders on people-related matters including talent assessment, development and succession, organization effectiveness, and high-performing team dynamics.
• Enhance employee development & management throughout the year by providing coaching, mentoring, and timely feedback; execute a goal-setting agenda with 360 performance evaluations and oversee the formal performance review and calibrations process for your client groups.
• Build career pathing and advancement opportunities that drive results and retain/ develop top talent within your client groups.
• Provide guidance and assist in the implementation of org design planning, business restructures, workforce planning, and headcount modeling.
• Develop and implement change management strategies to drive successful adoption of organizational changes, ensuring alignment with business objectives and minimizing resistance.
• Drive plans to attract, retain and develop talent, build a pipeline for leadership succession, ensure a talent pipeline exists to support future needs.
• Understand business priorities within client groups and leverage that information in broader people department planning and prioritization efforts.
• Deliver key communications within the business and influence messages as they are developed.
• Measure and monitor trends and the impact of key HR metrics and dashboards to drive HR needs planning.
• Proactively manage and resolve employee relations issues; ensure manager and employee compliance with company policies and procedures.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong coaching/ consulting capabilities.
  
• Demonstrated business acumen, organization savvy, judgment and decision making
• Collaborative style; positive can-do attitude. A team player with a strong drive to create a positive work environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills including ability to engage, influence and keep informed.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to analyze data, understand trends and develop recommendations for action based on the analysis.
• Excellent communication skills – a strong verbal communicator and writer; ability to frame a message.
• Demonstrated change management capability.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or related field or equivalent years of experience.
• 5+ years experience in an HR/People Business Partner role.

Preferred Qu