Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Alation
$130-175.5k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
Enterprise data intelligence solutions
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Enterprise data intelligence solutions
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-175.5k
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses and institutions to get better value from their data, improving outreach and profit by combining human potential with modern data intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Have 8+ years of progressive HRBP experience - preferably in tech, AI, data, or other fast-paced, global companies
- Have partnered directly with Sales and Customer Success teams, and thrive in their high-speed environments
- Are fluent in core HR capabilities: performance, feedback, coaching, team dynamics, engagement, and talent planning
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence and know when to ask, act, or escalate
- Comfortable with data & analytics / using AI‑powered tools to generate insights (Workday analytics, AI dashboards, HRIS, etc.)
- Are known for follow-through, not just good ideas. You own outcomes, and take a solutions-focused approach
- Enjoy building relationships across levels and functions, and can go from exec strategy to employee coaching without whiplash
- Think and act like an owner: proactive, decisive, and solution-oriented
- Embrace the mess - as long as it leads to progress over perfection
- Bonus: experience with Workday, conversational Spanish fluency, and/or SPHR/SHRM-SCP certification
What the job involves
- Reporting to the Director, HRBP, this role is for someone who leads with urgency, ownership, and scrappiness - a hands-on partner who cares deeply about building exceptional teams and outcomes
- You'll support our Sales, Customer Solutions, and Finance orgs, and be a force-multiplier for initiatives like manager development, performance, and engagement efforts across Alation
- This is a high-impact role with visibility, complexity, and the runway to make things better every day
- Partner with the Director, HRBP to plan, launch and facilitate performance cycles, manager development, employee engagement efforts and more
- Be a thought partner to business leaders, connect people strategy to business goals and help teams scale without losing what makes them great
- Influence decisions from org design to team health to leadership effectiveness, you'll work with your clients to shape how we grow and win
- Help drive performance and engagement through impactful people programs: coaching, calibration, talent planning, rewards, etc
- Leverage AI‑driven analytics and predictive modeling to anticipate people risks (turnover, performance, skills gaps) and recommend interventions
- Flex between the strategic and the operational: supporting daily people needs while contributing to big-picture initiatives
- Relentlessly improve our ways of working - simplify processes using AI / intelligent tools, automate what’s manual, and raise the bar for how we support our teams
- Drive the adoption of AI / intelligent HR tools / dashboards to enable faster, data‑led decisions across the business
Our take
While companies continue to gather huge volumes of data on customer behavior, efforts in leveraging said data are often hindered by data access and interpretation, which ultimately leads to incomplete datasets.
Alation is a machine learning powered data catalog. It pulls together all a company’s key data from popular sources like Oracle, Spark and Tableau, and presents it on its platform. This means that users can search for multiple strands of data on just one API. Its services include data governance, digital transformation, and data discovery.
With both the data catalog and data analytics market growing rapidly at a 25% annual growth rate, Alation finds itself in a very strong position having shown triple digit growth for four years running. The platform is used for diverse purposes by Pfizer, FinnAir, Pepsico, Salesforce, American Express and BMW.
It’s this range of applicability, from weather-induced flight delay prediction to rare disease identification, that has led to investments resulting in a valuation of $1.7B. Though it's not the only company of its ilk on the market, with the likes of Informatica, Aginity and Alteryx all competing, Alation’s rapid year-on-year growth, solid investment from the likes of Japanese data communications leader NTT DOCOMO and an elite customer base bodes well for the company's future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2022
$123m
SERIES E
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $315m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: health insurance; dental insurance; vision insurance; life insurance; short-term disability; long-term disability; wellness program; FSA account; HSA account; fitness subsidies
- Vacation and Time Off: paid vacation; paid holidays; personal/sick days; maternity leave; leave of absence
- Financial and Retirement: 401(k); company equity; performance bonus
- Professional Development: promote from within; lunch and learns
- Office Life: flexible work hours; remote work opportunities; commuter benefits program; casual dress; happy hours; snacks; some meals provided; company outings
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Satyen Sangani
(CEO)Having studied at Columbia, they worked at Morgan Stanley, Texas Pacific Group, and Andale, before an MSc at Oxford. They then worked as a VP at Oracle for over 9 years prior to co-founding Alation in July 2012.
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