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Senior People Business Partner

San Francisco, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Jan 2023

💰 $197,000/yr($111,000/yr – $197,000/yr)

About the role

Harness is a high-growth startup that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.
Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who successfully founded AppDynamics. We recently raised $230M in our Series D at a $3.7B valuation. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including Norwest Venture Partners, IVP, J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, and many more.
POSITION SUMMARY
We’re looking for a Senior People Business Partner to join our Global People Operations team! The ideal candidate thrives in the startup environment, is very hands on, naturally curious and highly collaborative. This is a great opportunity to join a great team culture and support our Go-To-Market teams. This position reports to the Director, Strategic People Business Partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Able to deliver full-cycle programs/projects (start to finish) and results in a timely manner.
Execute on company-wide Talent Management Programs with client groups, including Annual Performance Reviews, Talent Reviews, and Career Development
Coach managers to enhance their leadership skills and proactively address performance issues and career progression
Perform investigations in a timely manner with minimal exposure to the business and escalating to senior People Operations leadership or Legal when needed
Assist managers with addressing employee relations issues through weighing risks and alternatives, exploring legal and company compliance concerns, and offering balanced recommendations
Identify and work with Learning & Development to drive training plans and programs for both individual contributors and people leaders
Partner with the People Experience team to ensure participation in employee programs and to monitor and report on employee engagement
Partnering with the CRO, Sales leadership and the Talent Acquisition team on organizational structure and department expansion; particularly international expansion plans
Lead client group to maintain a high bar for performance by reviewing trends in management of underperformance. Based on insights, keeps senior leadership apprised of performance management trends and hot spots.
Work with Total Rewards and Talent Acquisition to ensure key trends and retention levers are addressed and used effectively.
Be a team player who acts with a sense of urgency and adapts to a fast-paced and ever-changing environment and create an environment of open communication for employees to provide feedback and express concerns.

ABOUT YOU

You possess 8+ years experience as strategic People Business Partner; preferably for Sales/GTM and/or Customer-Facing organizations
Experience working for a SAAS company a plus
Experience supporting a global and remote workforce
Expert-level experience in a variety of HR competency areas such as organizational design and development, leadership development, coaching, change management, performance management, and employee relations
Track record of developing effective people strategies that align with and support company/team objectives
Be able to solve complex problems; resourceful and take initiative to seek internal and external resources when problem-solving
Excited to work in a fluid startup environment
Excellent interpersonal skills with a desire to work in a collaborative environment