Principal People Partner, GoFundMe
HRBP, Product & Technology
$171-256k
+ Offers equity
2 days a week in office
Social fundraising platform
Open for applications
Social fundraising platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$171-256k
+ Offers equity
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people fundraise for the personal, business, and charitable causes that matter most to them.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Bachelor’s degree and strong background in People Partnering, ideally in a fast-growing technology company
- Experience partnering with product, engineering, or technical teams is strongly preferred
- Ability to connect people strategies to business outcomes and make decisions grounded in tradeoffs
- Proven ability to navigate complex, ambiguous problems and define clear, actionable paths forward
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and guiding decisions through strong perspectives and judgment
- Experience handling sensitive people matters and partnering effectively with Legal
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to bring clarity and alignment
- Ability to lead initiatives across teams, maintain momentum, and ensure outcomes are delivered
- Comfortable working in ambiguity, creating structure, and driving alignment across stakeholders
- Highly emotionally intelligent, self-aware, and skilled at building trust
What the job involves
- Build trust and credibility with product and engineering leaders through sound judgment, business context, and coaching that improves team performance
- Partner with leaders to enact talent strategies that drive growth, performance, and engagement across teams
- Translate business priorities into clear people plans, including performance management, organizational design, and workforce planning
- Lead performance processes (e.g., calibration, promotions, performance management) to ensure consistent and high-quality outcomes
- Coach managers on feedback, accountability, and team effectiveness, strengthening leadership capability across the organization
- Diagnose organizational health trends using data and qualitative insights, and define actionable recommendations
- Support team-level and multi-team organizational design efforts, including restructures, role clarity, and spans/layers
- Navigate employee relations matters with sound judgment, balancing business outcomes, employee experience, and legal considerations
- Partner with People, Talent, and Workplace teams to execute programs and ensure operational excellence across the employee lifecycle
- Identify and address emerging risks (e.g., attrition, performance gaps, engagement) and ensure follow-through on mitigation plans
Our take
One of the most well-known fundraising platforms in the world, GoFundMe makes raising money online exceptionally easy. The platform initially focused on charity and good causes, but its scope has now expanded to include start-up business funding. What makes the platform attractive is its ability to democratise fundraising.
GoFundMe's rapid rise in popularity has been helped by its social media integrations and the speed at which individuals can start funds. With strategic foresight, the company launched its GoFundMe Guarantee in 2016, a pledge to protect donors from fraud or platform misuse - knowing that its continued growth could only be hampered by security issues or donor deception. This guarantee is what has enabled the company to remain the largest crowdfunding platform in the world.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Wide range of health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision (GoFundMe covers 100% of employee premiums, and 80% of spouse and dependents)
- $600 annual fitness and wellness reimbursement
- Weekly massages
- Standing desks
- Fully-stocked kitchens & daily lunches
- Team off-sites & monthly social events
- Many of our offices are dog friendly
- 10 paid holidays, 17 days of accrued vacation per year, unlimited sick time & three volunteer days
- Enhanced parental leaves
- $50/month for employees commuting to and from work (public transit and/or parking)
- Caltrain GoPasses for our Bay Area commuters
- "Gives Back" program, where employees nominate fundraisers weekly for donations from GoFundMe
- Quarterly volunteer events in each office to give back to our local communities
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
- Access to learning tools and resources, including a subscription to Udemy, guest speakers, and internal brown bag sessions
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Margaret Richardson
(Chief Marketing & Corporate Affairs Officer)Formerly worked at Airbnb as Vice President of Trust and Director of Global Policy. They worked in Trust & Safety at Apple prior to becoming a Member of Pipeline Angels.
Tim Cadogan
(CEO)CEO since 2020. Previously CEO at OpenX, where they now serve as Chair of the Board. Has also served as Board Director at a number of businesses - they still hold this position at LiveRamp.
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