HR Business Partner, Principal

Your Role 

The Stellarus HRBP team partners with leaders to build organizations that can scale innovation, deliver results, and create an exceptional employee experience. The Principal, HR Business Partner, will report to the Senior Director, HR Business Partners for Stellarus. In this role you will be accountable for shaping and executing people strategies that enable Stellarus’ business strategy. The Principal, HR Business Partner translates business priorities into integrated talent, organization, and leadership solutions that foster desired business results and a culture that is fit for purpose. This role has significant influence at the Senior Vice President, Vice President and Director levels, requires strong consulting and systems thinking skills, and demands comfort delivering candid guidance with empathy in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning. 

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to executive leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, and operating model evolution, ensuring the business has the capability to execute today and capacity to scale tomorrow.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, reinvent and augment work with technology.
• Apply an outside-in lens, leveraging market trends, workforce data, and external best practices to shape forward-looking people solutions.
• Consult on leadership team effectiveness, decision making, and ways of working to improve both performance and employee experience.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen accountability for performance, development, and engagement outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with People & Engagement Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver seamless, practical, and scalable solutions.

Your Knowledge and Experience 

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Requires 10+ years of progressive HR experience, with a strong track record operating as a strategic HR Business Partner in complex, fast moving environments.
• Requires experience operating in a high growth technology, matrixed, or transformation-oriented environment.
• Requires demonstrated expertise in organization design, talent strategy, succession planning, and change leadership.
• Requires proven ability to leverage data, analytics, and business insights to inform people decisions and influence leaders.
• Exceptional consulting, coaching, and communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Strong business acumen, including comfort engaging with financial and operational data.
  Preferred credentials may include SPHR, SHRM-SCP or equivalent senior-level HR or transformation-focused certifications.