Senior HR Business Partner

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 markets.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance, to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Location: NYC
Hybrid
Full-time

Role summary

As Senior HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will be a strategic advisor to senior functional leaders, translating business goals into people strategies and helping shape high-performing, inclusive, and scalable teams. You’ll partner closely with People Partners, COEs, and the HRBP leadership team to ensure your business area is aligned, engaged, and supported across performance, talent, structure, and change. This is a key role focused on strategic impact, leadership enablement, and driving business outcomes through people.

What you'll do: 

• Business Partnership & Leadership Support: Act as a trusted advisor to functional leaders, enabling them to build high-performing, engaged teams. Provide insight and guidance on org effectiveness, talent planning, team dynamics, and leader development.
• Strategic Talent Planning: Partner with business leaders and Talent COEs to anticipate talent needs, identify gaps, and drive long-term plans around workforce, skills, and succession.
• Organizational Design & Change: Lead org design discussions for your functions, shaping structures that support scale, clarity, and accountability. Manage change and communication planning in partnership with People Partners and the business.
• Performance & Culture: Strengthen accountability, transparency, and manager effectiveness through coaching, feedback, and aligned performance processes. Champion company culture and ways of working across your business unit.
• HR Program Leadership: Localize and embed key people programs (e.g., engagement, performance, compensation) in partnership with People Partners, ensuring they’re applied consistently and with business relevance.
• Insights & Decision Support: Leverage people data (headcount, attrition, engagement, performance) to surface insights and shape strategy. Influence leadership decisions with clear, data-backed recommendations.
• Partnering with People Partners: Work hand-in-hand with People Partners who own day-to-day manager and employee support. Provide escalation, coaching, and strategic context to ensure excellent delivery across the employee lifecycle.

Who you are: 

• 8–10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant experience partnering with executive leaders in a strategic advisory capacity.
• Proven track record in leading complex org design, workforce planning, and enterprise-level people strategies.
• Strong analytical and commercial acumen — able to connect people insights to business decisions and outcomes.
• Excellent judgment and executive presence; comfortable navigating ambiguity and high-stakes, sensitive issues.
• Skilled at coaching senior leaders, influencing executive decision-making, and driving change across functions or geographies.
• Exceptional collaboration skills — able to align and execute across global teams and multiple HR disciplines.
• Strategic mindset with a hands-on approach — proactive, solutions-focused, and oriented toward clarity and impact.
• Deep expertise in core HR domains, with the ability to lead cross-functional HR initiatives and contribute to functional excellence.
• Alignment with our ways of working: Act as Our Customer’s Partner, Do It and Own It, Continuously Improve, Build Each Other Up

Not a must, but a great advantage:

• Experience in a high-growth or tech environment
• PHR or SHRM-CP certification is a plus

What we offer:

• Discounted medical, dental, and vision insurance (coverage starts on day one) HSA and FSA
• 401K with employer match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Fitness/Wellness reimbursement 
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and parental leave
• Learning and development opportunities
• Flexible work from home schedule
• Volunteer activities
• Fun offic