People Business Partner Director, Writer
Engineering, Product and Design
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
AI writing assistant
Be an early applicant
AI writing assistant
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring generative AI to the enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of HR or relevant leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a BP leadership role partnering with Director+ leaders in Engineering, Product, and Design organizations
- Ideally experience working in a SaaS or enterprise technology company
- Experience supporting leaders and teams in geographies outside the US, ideally UK and EMEA
- Builder at heart; helped companies scale from a few hundred to many hundreds or 1000+
- Excited about AI transforming human work and ideally experimented with it yourself
- At your best leading through ambiguity and constant change, nimble and responsive to short-term surprises while still driving progress on longer-term initiatives
- Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust and relationships with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds at all levels
- An exceptional communicator in both written and verbal interactions; clear, concise, and courageous in giving tough but supportive and respectful feedback when needed
- Respected just as much for your business judgment as for your HR expertise
- Approach every problem with a mix of prior expertise, ‘first principles’ thinking, and data
- Drawn to and already live by WRITER’s company values of Connect, Challenge, Own
What the job involves
- WRITER is scaling rapidly, hiring team members across our three major hubs in San Francisco, New York, and London as well as in other select locations
- The Director, people business partner for our engineering, product, design (EPD) organization will help bring our people vision and strategy to life and help our EPD team attract, inspire, develop, and retain the best technical talent out there
- This is an incredible opportunity to be on the frontlines of enterprise AI innovation and to work directly with leaders and teams who are shaping the future of tech at an incredibly rapid pace
- This role is hybrid based in San Francisco or New York, with at least 3 days in the office per week, and will report directly to our Chief people officer
- Be a trusted partner to people managers and team members alike and proactively address issues that may be holding people and teams back from doing their best work
- Work with leaders across EPD to translate our EPD strategy and priorities into people-, organization-, and change-related initiatives that accelerate our progress
- Work with EPD leaders to create and drive a high-performance culture
- Bring both best practices as well as fresh problem-solving on issues of talent management and development, organizational design, retention, engagement, and more
- Help strengthen our culture and people practices in how we engage and inspire team members, support growth and development, and help them perform to their potential
- Partner closely with our Legal team on employee relations issues and ensure we are always fully compliant with local, state, and federal laws and requirements
- Collaborate closely with other People team leaders at WRITER to make our People strategy, initiatives, and programs successful
Our take
AI-assisted writing tools have taken off over recent years. With the likes of high-exposure company Grammarly accelerating adoption of such tools, a flurry of startups have appeared to offer their own takes. Writer’s angle is to leverage AI as a means of standardizing and scaling both content and communications for business teams. The tool offers autofilling and inline suggestions that keep content aligned with pre-determined company language and style guides.
This branded fine-tuning function distinguishes it from full copy-generation competitors, as well as from Grammarly itself, which is a more generalist copyediting tool. It subsequently caters to major enterprise clients looking to maintain standards across multiple and sprawling teams, and the company has managed to net major clients like Deloitte, Twitter, UiPath, and Accenture.
While AI-related buzz remains solidly around generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard, Writer's narrow target market - in which it has already found success - supplies plenty of scope to grow, as AI copyediting tools look set to rapidly become content industry standard. With continued new launches and updates to its offerings as well as an impressive $100 million Series B awarded in 2023, the company is well-placed to seek further success into the future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
229% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$200m
SERIES C
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $326m
Company benefits
- Selection of employer-covered medical plans, plus dental, vision, life insurance, and FSA
- Flexible location and schedule options
- Competitive parental leave policy
- Company stock options
- 401k plan with employer contributions
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Distributed from Day 1: Our processes and operating cadence are built around a distributed culture
- SF office space: If you prefer working from an office, we have a beautiful sunny one in Union Square, the heart of San Francisco
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
May Habib
(CEO)Harvard economics graduate, who was previously VP of sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Company, and a global shaper at the World Economic Forum. Also co-founded Qordoba.
Waseem Alshikh
(CTO)Previously co-founded CloudAppers, then served as CTO at iMENA. Subsequently co-founded AI content editor Qordoba.
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