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Salary: USD 180,000 - 225,000 / annual
Valon is building ValonOS, an AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing that is on track to power 1 in 6 U.S. mortgages. The company recently raised $150M Series D at a $2.3B valuation.
You will be the People Partner for Valon's Deployment and Implementation teams—the groups responsible for migrating decades-old regulated operations onto ValonOS and scaling the GTM organization. This is a hands-on strategic partnership role that combines senior leader advising with program building and execution.
Your responsibilities will span three core areas:
**Strategic Partnership & Organizational Leadership**
Advise Deployment and Implementation leaders on team structure, role clarity, spans and layers, workforce planning, and headcount. Help leaders navigate reorganizations and operating-model changes. Bring judgment on manager effectiveness, team health, retention, and talent risks. Translate business plans and operating challenges into practical people decisions.
**Manager Capability & Learning Programs**
Create and improve a manager-development program covering delegation, feedback, performance management, people development, and leading through change. Build a practical learning and development roadmap including manager learning, role-specific development, and career growth. Equip managers with playbooks, tools, training, and recurring forums. Coach managers and leaders directly on difficult people and leadership situations.
**People Programs Ownership**
Own the annual and quarterly roadmap for manager capability, learning and development, performance and talent practices, and organizational change support. Strengthen performance management, talent reviews, development planning, promotion readiness, and succession thinking. Turn recurring employee or manager challenges into scalable programs, templates, and operating rhythms. Measure program impact on manager effectiveness, development, retention, engagement, and team health.
You will also operate as a senior member of the broader People team, partnering with People Operations, People Relations, Talent Acquisition, and Legal. You'll bring structure and judgment to ambiguous, high-stakes, fast-moving work, use employee and organizational data to identify patterns and prioritize, and help build a consistent, high-quality experience for leaders and employees as Valon scales.
Success in the first year means Deployment and Implementation leaders see you as a trusted, high-judgment partner; the group has a clear People Programs roadmap with visible ownership and measures; managers have stronger tools and habits for feedback, performance, delegation, and development; a practical learning and development approach is in place and being used; reorganizations are supported with clearer role definition and communication; performance and talent practices are more consistent and useful; and you can demonstrate what changed and where the next investment should go.
**Requirements**
- 8+ years of experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or equivalent role, with meaningful experience advising senior leaders and executives
- Experience supporting an operationally complex organization such as deployment, implementation, professional services, operations, or a similarly cross-functional environment
- Track record of building and shipping people programs, especially manager development, learning and development, performance, talent, or organizational change programs
- Strong judgment and comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to move from strategy to execution without losing the thread
- Excellent manager-coaching skills and the ability to earn trust while being direct about hard issues
- Experience with organization design, workforce planning, performance management, talent reviews, and change management
- Comfort using data to diagnose organizational problems and measure program outcomes
- Strong written and verbal communication, discretion, and empathy
- Willingness to work in person with the team in New York City
- Mortgage or financial-services experience is helpful but not required; you must be able to learn a complex business quickly and care about how the work gets done
