Senior HR Business Partner, HYCU
GTM/Sales
$155-195k
All roles are eligible to participate in HYCU’s equity plan
3 days a week in office
SaaS-based cloud data backup
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SaaS-based cloud data backup
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-195k
All roles are eligible to participate in HYCU’s equity plan
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide unparalleled data protection, migration and disaster recovery.
Role
Who you are
- The successful candidate will have a strong background in HR and have partnered closely with GTM leaders. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy building and influencing success and culture in a startup organization
- 7-10+ years of HRBP/People Partnering experience in SaaS, high-growth, or global technology company
- Experience supporting GTM/Sales teams is required with strong experience supporting C-Suite and Executive leadership
- Deep knowledge of Sales team dynamics: including role profiling and leveling, global performance standards and metrics, goal setting, role expectations, and 9-box calibration
- Strong SaaS business acumen—comfortable with data, organizational planning to support a high-growth GTM organization
- Demonstrated experience in change management, org design, and manager coaching
- Proven ability to influence leaders at all levels and build strong business partner relationships
- Adaptable to a scale-up environment where processes are evolving
- Excellent communication skills and high levels of integrity, discretion, and judgment to build transparency and trust with global teams
- Familiarity with HR Systems (BambooHR), new & innovative AI tools is a plus
- Knowledge of HR compliance, benefits administration, HR policy and employment laws is a plus
- Start-up SaaS environment experience is strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree with a focus in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology or a related field
What the job involves
- We are looking for a strategic, data-driven Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to support our global Go-To-Market (GTM) and Sales organization
- In this role, you will partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Operations leadership to drive organizational effectiveness, support rapid growth and scale teams in a high-performance B2B SaaS startup environment
- This is a highly visible role that blends strategic advisory with hands-on execution
- This is an individual contributor role that will sit on HYCU’s Global People Team, and report to the Chief People Officer
- Serve as the primary GTM HR Business Partner for assigned business units globally (Sales, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, Sales Operations, Marketing, etc.)
- Use data (performance trends, attrition, pipeline, comp insights) to guide leaders in org planning, capacity needs, and skills development
- Support quarterly business reviews with People insights (performance, promotion readiness, talent gaps, retention risks)
- Coach leaders on decision-making, talent moves and managing performance narratives early (avoid late-stage PIP surprises)
- Partner with leaders to execute the full Hire-Train-Inspect-Retain cycle: ensuring role clarity, structured onboarding, ongoing enablement, capability assessment, and retention strategies
- Drive cross-functional alignment on role clarity, responsibilities, and organizational communication to prevent silos across GTM
- Drive performance rhythms: goal setting, quarterly feedback loops, 9-box calibration, role expectations
- Partner on leadership development initiatives (enablement, coaching, succession planning)
- Support consistent, high-quality onboarding for new hires and smooth, compliant offboarding processes in partnership with HR Ops, TA, and cross-functional teams
- Build trust with leadership and influence strong team performance and employee retention
- Align with GTM leaders, operations, and cross functional teams to keep leaders aligned on roles and responsibleness to remove information silos
- Ensure consistency of HYCU values (Authenticity, Grit, Empathy) in decisions and leader behaviors
- Handle early ER conversations, documentation, and manager coaching to ensure fairness and reduce escalations
- Partner with Legal on investigations, discipline, and policy application across countries
- Ensure PEO, local HR, and global processes align for risk-free execution
- Partner with Leadership and Talent Acquisition on headcount needs, hiring plans, and interview calibration
- Participate in critical hiring for GTM global and US positions. Help drive recruitment, retainment, mentorship, and development of GTM talent
- Building GTM bench for fast expansion and upleveling talent
Our take
The applications that run your day-to-day operations need simple, flexible, and secure backup that unlocks data mobility and control on a granular level in order to safely control workloads. HYCU's platform provides exactly this service.
The company's solutions are purpose-built for each of the cloud platforms a customer chooses and are designed to be simple, delivering a native experience with full application awareness. HYCU claims to be the only BaaS provider that effectively spans on-prem, cloud, SaaS apps, and native apps. Founded not too long ago in 2018, it has already seen success; it now has over 3000 customers worldwide and over 400 global partners.
HYCU was previously privately funded but changed its strategy during the pandemic; it secured two impressive rounds of funding in 2022 that are being used to expand its data protection products, capabilities and improve brand awareness. With this focus on deep optimisation, HYCU is working smartly to increase its presence in this market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2022
$53m
SERIES B
Mar 2021
$87.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140.5m
Company benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- 401k match
- Generous time off
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Simon Taylor
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Senior Associate at Forrester and President of Comtrade Software at Comtrade Group.
Goran Garevski
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Business Development Manager at HERMES SoftLab and VP Engineering of Product Development Services at Comtrade Group.
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