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Salary: USD 147,000 - 190,000 / annual
Justworks is seeking a Senior People Business Partner to serve as a strategic HR partner to client group leadership teams. This role combines deep HR expertise with business acumen to drive organizational effectiveness and people strategy at scale.
You will act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, helping them build high-performing teams and fostering an environment where employees can grow and thrive. Key responsibilities include:
**Strategic Business Partnership:** Partner with leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, and talent decisions including succession planning, change management, and leadership effectiveness. Evaluate the impact of emerging technologies and AI on future-ready team structures and skill requirements.
**Data-Driven Insights:** Utilize HR metrics and analytics to identify trends, provide actionable insights, and recommend improvements to organizational effectiveness.
**Change Leadership:** Champion organizational transformation by developing and executing change management plans that enhance adoption, communication, and resilience. Guide business leaders through periods of significant change and realignment.
**Talent Development:** Lead cross-functional talent initiatives including leadership development, high-potential identification, and strategic capability building. Drive performance management and feedback culture across the organization.
**DEIB Integration:** Embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging principles into team-level strategies and advocate for inclusive culture and equitable talent practices.
**Employee Relations:** Support business leaders and employees in addressing complex employee relations matters, including performance concerns and policy violations, in partnership with the Employee Relations team.
**People Team Collaboration:** Work closely with Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, Talent & Organizational Development, DEIB, Workplace) to deliver integrated programs. Identify and share best practices with fellow People Business Partners.
You will thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, balancing business needs with employee experience. Success requires consultative problem-solving, strong judgment, functional HR expertise, clear communication, and adaptability across all organizational levels.
**Requirements:**
- 7+ years of HR/HRBP experience with demonstrated success partnering with and influencing executive-level leadership
- Proven experience developing partnerships with business leaders, particularly during significant organizational change, realignment, and growth periods
- Demonstrated comfort leveraging AI and modern HR technologies to optimize processes, generate data-driven insights, and scale People operations
- Success operating in high-growth, rapidly evolving companies with complex global distributed teams
- Experience leading talent strategy, organizational design, and cross-functional people initiatives in matrixed organizations
- Ability to coach and communicate effectively across all organizational levels
- Strong analytical and operational thinking with ability to translate data into actionable insights and build scalable solutions
- Ability to navigate confidential information with discretion and integrity
- Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills
- Knowledge of international, federal, state, and local employment laws and industry best practices to ensure compliance
