Senior People Business Partner, Justworks
$155.5-178.8k
Senior and Expert level
New York
2+ days a week in office
Business operations platform
Open for applications
Business operations platform
1001+ employees
FintechB2BEnterpriseHRCompliancePaymentsSaaS
Open for applications
$155.5-178.8k
Senior and Expert level
New York
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
FintechB2BEnterpriseHRCompliancePaymentsSaaS
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in HR/HRBP, including demonstrated success directly partnering with and influencing executive-level leadership
- Proven experience developing partnerships with business leaders, particularly in helping them lead an organization through significant change, and during a period of realignment and growth
- Demonstrated success operating in a high-growth, rapidly evolving company with complex global distributed teams
- Experience leading talent strategy, org design, and cross-functional people initiatives in a matrixed organization
- Ability to coach and communicate across all levels of the organization; up, down, and across
- Strong analytical and operational thinking with the ability to translate data into actionable insights, solve complex problems, and build scalable, strategic solutions
- Ability to navigate confidential information with discretion and integrity
- Experience working with and optimizing HR systems
- Strong problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills
- Maintain knowledge and understanding of regulations, laws, and industry best practices to ensure compliance with all applicable international, federal, state, and local employment laws
- As a Senior People Business Partner, how results are achieved is paramount to your success. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
- Consultative - takes an approach that focuses on building relationships with others, understanding their problems, and developing solutions to challenges through open-ended questions and active listening
- Solution-oriented - identifies the source of a question or challenge and provides the right, or a better, way of doing things
- Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
- Functional expertise - subject matter expertise of specific function(s), including knowledge of principles, practices, and domain knowledge
- Clear communication - the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral, written, visual and non-verbal communication skills, as well as listening skills to gain understanding
- Adaptability - the ability to effectively flex communication and interpersonal styles to build rapport and influence stakeholders at all levels, from senior leadership to entry-level employees
- In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
What the job involves
- Justworks is seeking a seasoned and strategic Senior People Business Partner with a strong record of developing and implementing people strategies and initiatives that meaningfully contribute to business results
- As a Senior People Business Partner, you will be a trusted partner to your client group organizations, enabling leaders to build high-performing teams, and fostering an environment where Justworkers (employees) can grow, thrive and feel seen
- You are a true HR guru. There is no problem too big or too small that you cannot tackle using your extensive knowledge and good judgement, making you an essential partner to the business and member of the People team.
- You skillfully balance the needs of the business with the experience of Justworkers, keeping our ambitious goals of helping small businesses grow with confidence top of mind. You’re curious and inquisitive, recognizing the need to gain relevant context and partner with the appropriate stakeholders to propose informed solutions to the business
- You’re curious and inquisitive, recognizing the need to gain relevant context and partner with the appropriate stakeholders to propose informed solutions to the business
- Strategic Business Partnership:
- Act as a strategic HR partner to client group leadership teams, understanding their business goals and connecting actionable People strategies to the success of the business, with a focus on scalable and sustainable solutions
- Coach leaders through complex talent-related decisions including workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, change management, and leadership effectiveness
- Leveraging Data:
- Utilize data and metrics to identify trends, provide insights, and make recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness
- Change Leadership:
- Serve as a champion of change in periods of transformation, developing and executing change management plans that enhance adoption, communication, and resilience
- Guide and enable business leaders to confidently lead and navigate through organizational changes, ensuring smooth transitions and effective communication to Justworkers
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging:
- Embed DEIB principles into team-level strategies and act as an advocate for inclusive culture and equitable talent practices
- Talent Development:
- Co-lead cross-functional talent initiatives, including leadership development, high-potential identification, and strategic capability building
- Drive performance management and feedback culture by partnering with leaders to set clear and consistent expectations, calibrate talent, and embed accountability mechanisms
- People Team Partnership:
- Work closely with the People team Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, Talent & Organizational Development, Diversity Equity & Inclusion, Workplace) to deliver programs that attract, engage, and retain top talent
- Proactively identify, develop, and share best practices, tools, and insights with fellow People Business Partners to continuously elevate the team's capabilities and foster a culture of shared learning and expertise
- Lead and provide guidance on critical cross-functional people initiatives, collaborating with various departments to ensure alignment and successful execution of projects that impact the broader organization
- Employee Relations:
- Support business leaders and Justworkers in addressing a wide range of complex employee relations matters, including performance concerns and policy violations, with expertise and empathy, in close partnership with the Employee Relations team
- Administrative:
- Perform other related duties, including administrative tasks needed to ensure timely execution of People team-related responsibilities
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Insights
Top investors
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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