Principal People Partner, Niantic
$214.2-238k
+ Bonus + Equity
In office: Monday - Wednesday
3+ days a week in office
Augmented reality software development
Open for applications
Augmented reality software development
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$214.2-238k
+ Bonus + Equity
In office: Monday - Wednesday
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Niantic's mission is to shape a future where technology enables novel robotics, computing, and entertainment experiences, focusing predominantly on augmented reality games.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field. Master’s degree or HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR) preferred
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 5 years in a People Partner/HRBP role or similar capacity
- Experience partnering with Engineering, Product Management, or technical client groups
- Ability to work in a fast-paced hybrid environment and handle stress appropriately and/or ability to solve practical problems and be sufficiently adaptable to handle dynamic situations with little advance notice
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with ability to communicate effectively through written and verbal communications, including synchronous interactions with others
- Strong business acumen and ability to align HR strategy with business goals
- Demonstrated experience with organizational change and project management
- Proficiency in HRIS and other HR-related technologies
- In-depth knowledge of labor law and HR best practices
What the job involves
- The Principal, People Partner, is a strategic and hands-on role that provides full cycle Human Resources support to our business
- The role is critical in executing our people initiatives, providing great internal customer support, and driving HR functional excellence and process improvement
- This role will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, helping to shape the company's overall HR strategy to drive business success
- Partner with senior leaders to develop and implement effective HR policies and practices that will support the strategic growth of the business
- Serve as a consultant to management on human resource-related issues
- Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, workforce planning, and succession planning
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conduct effective, thorough, and objective investigations
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks, and ensuring regulatory compliance
- Work with leaders to develop and implement performance management programs
- Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to line management (coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions)
- Collaborate with recruitment team to attract and retain top talent
- Partner with hiring managers to understand their hiring needs and provide recruitment strategy support
- Identify training needs for business units and individual executive coaching needs
- Participate in evaluation and monitoring of training programs to ensure success. Follow up to ensure training objectives are met
- Lead HR projects, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, and integrations
- Implement change management strategies to support business initiatives and improve organizational effectiveness
- Provide guidance and input on business unit compensation and benefits strategies
- Work with compensation and benefits teams to develop competitive and cost-effective plans
- Champion initiatives to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace
- Support and develop a diverse pipeline of talent
- Utilize HR metrics and analytics to drive data-driven decisions
- Provide reports and analysis on key HR metrics and trends
Our take
Niantic, Inc. is a software development company creating augmented reality mobile games, such as Ingress, Pokémon Go, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, that encourage players to go outside, explore, and meet people. The company was formed in 2010 as an internal startup within Google. Since its inception, hundreds of millions of people have used its products and services.
Although Niantic made a name for itself in the mobile gaming industry through the success of Pokémon Go, the company is hoping to become a platform for other developers to build location-aware AR apps on top of. In 2022, it released a location mapping software for AR, allowing AR experiences to be grounded to a physical location, like the front of a building or a park monument, rather than just floating aimlessly through a phone’s camera view.
Niantic plans to use this platform for an AR-based metaverse, an alternative to Meta’s plans for a VR-based metaverse that renders us bound to VR headsets. The company believes that an AR metaverse on a 3D map of the world will play a critical role in the next transition in computing, and raised funds to make this vision a reality in 2021.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$300m
SERIES D
Dec 2018
$245m
SERIES C
Total funding: $774.3m
Company benefits
- Robust medical, dental, and vision insurance including 100% paid employee healthcare
- 100% of premiums for long term and short term disability and life insurance
- Mental healthcare on-demand by Spring Health
- Increasing paid time off with tenure, separate sick time accrual, five flex days per year to attend Niantic community events or volunteer
- Company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Years
- 16 weeks of parental leave for parents, parental leave transition assistance by Cleo, Carrot fertility benefit
- 401k Match, equity options, compare and refinance loans with Credible’s online loan marketplace
- Cold breakfast, hot lunch and snacks all day, every day
- Cell-phone, gym, and internet reimbursements, pre-tax commuter benefits, employee discounts via Fond
- Employee donation match of up to $500 per year
- Wellness activities including yoga and meditation, volunteer off-sites, employee Resource Groups
Company values
- Start with a worthy goal
- Invite everyone on board
- Lead from the front
- Set waypoints, and then stay on course
- Speak the truth, to serve the mission
- See it through
- Weather storms
- Summit mountains
Company HQ
Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
John Hanke
(CEO)Having studied for an MBA at UCB, John worked as a Producer for 3DO before co-founding Big Network and Keyhole. He then spent over 11 years at Google as VP of Product, before leaving in October 2015 to found Niantic.
Phil Keslin
(CTO)Prior to Niantic, Phil was acontributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS.
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