Staff HR Business Partner

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) is an advisor and performance enabler who partners with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness through people. As the first point of contact for complex human capital matters, the HRBP delivers high-impact HR solutions aligned with GM’s business purpose, strategy, and culture.  

• Partner with business leaders to define and execute talent strategies, including workforce planning, job design, and organizational transformation. Build credibility and influence across teams without relying on formal authority.  

• Lead organizational design efforts to optimize performance and support transformation.  

• Act as a talent scout, identifying performance gaps and strengths across teams. Shape and protect the employee experience to ensure alignment with company values and goals.  

• Drive leadership development and build people leader effectiveness.   

• Serve as a trusted advisor, guiding leaders through ambiguity and change. Offer clarity, calm, and actionable solutions for complex HR issues.  

• Provide guidance on complex employee relations matters, using sound judgment, established frameworks, and consideration of business and legal risk.  

• Use data and insights to drive strategic decisions and demonstrate HR’s impact. Apply advanced analytical and problem-solving techniques to resolve non-standard challenges.  

• Serve as a catalyst for change during periods of transformation, helping leaders navigate organizational shifts with clarity and confidence. Influence outcomes without authority, shaping direction and driving adoption of new approaches across the broader functional area.  

• Guides leaders in applying Total Rewards practices that align with strategy, equity, and market realities. Ensures sound judgment in complex situations and protects the company’s reputation through fair, consistent, and compliant decisions. 

• Collaborate with Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver business-aligned HR solutions. Diagnose root issues and co-create solutions with COEs.  

Expertise 

Recognized as an expert in their field. Applies highly specialized knowledge and extensive practical experience in the area, as well as organizational expertise across multiple areas within a function or across functions.  Applies strong business acumen and complex problem-solving techniques to identify, analyze and resolve issues that influence achievement of key functional objectives. Develops new or significantly improves existing policies, methods, and systems. incorporating relevant disciplines, theories, and techniques through independent judgment and discretion.  Works independently with broad latitude in decisions and actions in a complex environment. Often acts as a subject matter expert in their area of expertise. Navigates high levels of ambiguity, guiding leaders and teams through transformational shifts with confidence and clarity. 

Complexity 

Works on complex issues and assignments that require conceptual thinking, originality and ingenuity of approaches, and a wide application of principles, theories, and concepts to achieve the re