Director of People Business Partner, Opendoor
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4 days a week in office
End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
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End-to-end online platform for selling and buying homes
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power life's progress one move at a time.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of operating experience, ideally including time in People, strategy, product, or consulting roles at high-growth technology companies
- Proven strategic partner to senior leaders in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Strong operator mindset — you understand how companies are built, scaled, and corrected
- High judgment and comfort navigating complex talent and performance decisions
- Analytical rigor — you default to data to drive decisions
- Fluent in AI and automation — and uses both daily to do the work, not just to talk about it
- Direct, low-ego, high-candor communication style
- Bias toward action, speed, and simplicity
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Director-level People Business Partner to operate as a business leader on the company's most critical teams — using AI and data to drive execution, insight, and speed
- This role exists to raise the bar, increase talent density, and make the org stronger every week — so leaders execute faster and better
- This is not a traditional HR role
- This is a high-judgment, high-trust operator role
- Diagnose structural gaps before they become hiring or performance problems
- Model team design options with tradeoffs across headcount, span, layers, and role clarity
- Own workforce planning as a live model, not a once-a-year exercise
- Surface org health signals proactively using data
- Drive calibration with rigor — differentiate performance with clarity and conviction, hold the bar
- Own talent development for high-potential leaders and drive decisive action on performance gaps
- Run performance conversations as a coach to the manager, not a mediator
- Lead with attrition rates, performance distributions, hiring velocity, and org spans — not anecdotes
- Be the thinking partner executives actually call — not the one they CC on HR issues
- Push back on leaders when their instinct is wrong — frame it as tradeoffs, not policy
- Provide direct, honest feedback and help leaders drive accountability through change
- Own adoption of People initiatives within your client group
- Build a GTM plan for every People product launch: target user, narrative, rollout sequence, success metrics
- Track adoption metrics post-launch and redesign where needed
- Design People workflows and systems with both humans and agents as users — and ship them that way
- Build and ship AI-powered workflows across performance management, workforce planning, talent insights, and decision support
- Use AI to accelerate every workflow — draft comms, synthesize data, model org options, prep for meetings
- Identify opportunities to automate anything that doesn't require judgment
Our take
Opendoor makes selling homes easy and stress-free by cutting out the prolonged processing time usually involved with a sale. Sellers can offload a house quickly and easily to the company for cash and a 6-9% fee. Currently operating in a growing number of markets nationwide, Opendoor has chimed well with millennials who gel quickly with online businesses that offer solutions to problems they encounter.
This buying and selling model doesn't come without risk. The longer Opendoor keeps a property, the lower its profit margin. However, Opendoor's performance has been anything but disappointing; it went public in 2021, with its pre-SPAC merger presentation calling for $3.5 billion in revenue. Its actual revenue trounced it, coming in at $8 billion - more than double its estimate.
Opendoor's largest competitor, Zillow, dropped out of the space in late 2021 because it struggled to price the homes it acquired accurately. Opendoor's closest remaining competitor is Offerpad, which does just a fraction of the transaction volume that Opendoor does. With strong earnings coming out of 2024, OpenDoor is looking at transforming its operations in 2026, with new management, a volume-driven strategy and an acquisition spree expected. If Opendoor can continue to ride on its long-term success, it will have an enormous lead on existing and future competitors, positioning it to securely become the overwhelming market leader.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Save for tomorrow: Select our Pre-tax or Roth 401k plans to save towards retirement
- Healthy healthcare: Medical, dental and vision is 100% covered for employees
- Family planning: We offer specialty programs like Carrot, Cleo & Ginger
- Flexible vacation: Most of our team take at least 20 days off per year to decompress and be their best
- Resource groups: Join the group that works for you
- Income protection: 100% company sponsored: life insurance short term and long term disability
- Other: Flexible spending account, commuter benefit, employee assistance programs, and paid parental leave
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kaz Nejatian
(CEO)Previously COO and VP of Product at Shopify, Lead Product Manager at Facebook and CEO & Co-Founder at Kash.
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