Expert HR Business Partner, Vonage
$150-200k
Cloud-based communications APIs
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based communications APIs
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal to help enterprises stay ahead.
Role
Who you are
- Advanced knowledge of the various core HR disciplines (compensation, employee relations, benefits, recruiting, organization effectiveness, change management, etc.)
- An open, collaborative, and credible communication style
- Strong problem solving, decision-making and organizational skills
- Ability to:
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with diverse clients and stakeholders
- Experience managing diverse activities in multiple locations
- Inform, guide and advise leaders on a wide range of business and HR topics, processes and initiatives
- Assess, measure and positively impact workplace culture, employee attitudes and the management of HR practices
- Drive alignment and buy-in for HR initiatives and projects
- Maintain the highest standards of integrity, confidentiality and business ethics
- Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, business or related discipline
- Corporate HR Business Partner or similar experience (7+ years)
- Master’s Degree and/or HR Certification is preferred
- There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you
What the job involves
- HR Business Partners serve as strategic partners to senior leaders in our organization
- We work with Senior Leadership to implement strategy, develop and retain our talent and create value added organizational capabilities through effective workforce planning and organizational design
- Work with HR and business leadership in a global organization to establish functional strategic direction
- Work with senior leadership to identify and develop strategically focused HR objectives and priorities
- Engage with HR leaders and teams to ensure programs, initiatives and processes are well-integrated, effectively communicated and applied in a manner that supports client needs and business objectives
- Participate as a key contributor / influencer in HR program development
- Support the development, engagement and retention of our critical and emerging talent
- Work with HR Centers of Excellence to determine effective functional reward strategies
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on workforce planning to ensure attraction of key talent aligned to a well thought out location strategy
- Coach leaders and employees towards high performance
- Act as a change agent , to support leaders in advancing corporate and functional culture
- Participate in developing functional goals, objectives and people-related management systems
- Participate and provide advice in annual compensation programs
- Analyze trends and metrics to support the development of innovative people solutions and programs
- Use organizational design practices to support the alignment of functional structure with business priorities
Our take
According to Vonage, technology should make business communication easier, but it currently makes it more complicated due to the various communication platforms that users need to spend time learning how to use. Moreover, users often realize that the platform is not the right choice for them after wasting a lot of time understanding how to navigate it. Vonage aims to change this by providing enterprises with a flexible cloud communications platform that simplifies business communication.
Vonage offers a unified communications solution that is easy to understand and use every day. The platform integrates communication via voice, messaging, video, and data and gives clients the flexibility to choose from a wide range of tools and integrations or to create new ones using Vonage's APIs.
Following its acquisition by Ericsson - a multinational networking and telecommunications company - Vonage has been focused on expanding its presence in wireless enterprises and broadening its global offerings. As part of this, it recently announced a collaboration with AWS, to integrate Amazon Nova Sonic with the Vonage Voice API. This collaboration further strengthens Vonage;'s position in the rapidly growing AI-driven communications market and lays the groundwork for accelerated innovation and global growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2005
$200m
SERIES E
Aug 2004
$105m
SERIES D
Total funding: $372m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Tution Reimbursement
- Retirement Plan
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Health Savings Account
- Legal Plan
- Auto, Home, & Pert Insurance
- And More!
Company HQ
Holmdel, NJ
Leadership
Niklas Heuveldop
(CEO)Niklas has been part of Ericsson since 2005, joining as a VP of Sales American Business Unit Networks. Since then, he has held numerous roles and became the CEO of Vonage and Head of Business Global Communication Platforms in 2024.
Pam Hehn Schroeder
(CFO)Pam has been part of Ericsson since 2001, joining as a Finance Leader, REgions, Broadband & Media Accounts. Since then, she has held a number of roles and became CFO of Vonage in 2024.
Neelam Sandhu
(CMO)Neelam joined Vonage as CMO in 2025. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at BlackBerry as CMO and CCO.
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