Senior People Business Partner

About Us 

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week. 

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
• Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
• Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
• Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven

dbt is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.  

As a Sr. People Business Partner supporting our rapidly growing Engineering and G&A organizations, 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 the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and their organizations, 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 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 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 the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Finance Officer.
• 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’ll Need

• 10+ years of HR Business Partner experience, partnering directly with c-level executives and senior leaders
• You’ve experienced supporting engineering teams and finance teams, 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 chan