Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Openly
$131.8-205.9k
+ Equity + Cash incentive compensation
Home insurance platform
Job no longer available
Home insurance platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$131.8-205.9k
+ Equity + Cash incentive compensation
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Do you have a passion for building inclusive workplace cultures and lending your voice to conversations that will help shape the future of an organization?
- If so, keep reading
- You know the 'why' behind the HR textbooks, but you prioritize the 'how.' You have a talent for stripping away HR jargon to deliver practical, common-sense solutions that move the needle
- Have a passion for at least one of the following: Compensation & Benefits, Project Management, or HR Systems
- You love collaborating with team members
- You thrive on innovation
- You’re creative. You love to find new and fun ways to make an impact
- Think strategically and translate concepts into actionable items
- Ability to adapt and tailor communication style for your audience
- Not afraid of a challenge
- Experienced in working in a fully remote environment
- Have a strong work ethic to work independently with a desire to learn, grow and own projects/tasks
- Tremendous sense of urgency and ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment
- Ability to have fun in whatever you do
- You have 8+ years of experience in human resources, organizational development, or other related fields
- Experience supporting an operational function, inclusive of call center employees, is required
- Experience in insurance and/or a start-up, a plus
- Ability to position yourself as credible (garners respect, acts with integrity, keeps commitments); proactive (has a point of view, challenges assumptions, takes initiative); and a trusted thought-partner (builds relationships, delivers results)
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced environment in a period of hypergrowth
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Experience managing a team is a plus
- Experience building processes
- Experience managing change for hyper growth organizations
- Knowledge of Federal and State labor laws
What the job involves
- We are in search of an HR Business Partner to help take our People team to the next level
- We’re not your typical “HR” team, and the HR Business Partner will be vital in making that felt throughout Openly
- When done right, traditional “employee relations” will be just a small piece of your role
- Your position will be strategic, rather than reactive
- You’ll have the ability to connect with team members across the organization to have an impact on career growth, performance, diversity and inclusion, engagement, and happiness
- Work with functional leadership to ensure the organization is aligned to the company strategy, culture, values and emerging technologies
- Partner with leaders to align current and future business needs into an overall integrated People plan for the function, focusing on opportunities that contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the business
- Champion the adoption of AI and automation tools within the People and Culture function to streamline administrative workflows, freeing up 'mental bandwidth' for high-impact strategic coaching and creative problem-solving
- Partner with leaders to ensure Diversity, Inclusion, Equity isn’t an “HR topic” - everyone plays a part
- Support performance management of staff and manage employee relations, when necessary
- Structure the performance review process, and train managers to be able to give feedback on their own
- Participate in company-wide performance campaigns
- Integrate and partner with HR colleagues in the Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, HRIS, and People Operations teams to implement solutions and help scale the business
- Proactively assess team, manager, organizational development needs, make recommendations, and implement appropriate solutions
- Continuously challenge job descriptions and comp/ben mechanisms to ensure adequacy between organizational efforts and strategic importance of each population (in collaboration with the TA team)
- Gather key Learning & Development needs and collaborate with the L&D team to ensure that needs are met
- Use engagement survey results and insights to make impactful recommendations
- Leverage data-driven insights to build the 'why' behind organizational changes, ensuring leadership buy-in through evidence-based storytelling
- Ability to manage HR projects and guide the HR team
Application process
- We will continue to accept applications through 5:00pm EST on Friday, March 6th
Our take
Openly has responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what’s possible, resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
Openly's homeowner insurance platform sells exclusively through independent agencies. The platform watches and updates more than 19,000 vendor profiles daily across 19 states and 91 different industries, detecting changes to key business information, privacy documentation, terms of service agreements and public records. This increases transparency of the risk between buyers and suppliers, which sets Openly apart from its competitors in the insurtech market.
It has grown in-force premium by more than 500% year over year and has already achieved double-digit new sales market share in the majority of its states. The company is taking huge steps and has even partnered with Mastercard to integrate Mastercard's RiskRecon cyber risk data into its platform so that organizations can better understand their risk profile. It now has plans to expand its home insurance product to more states and agencies and to enhance its technology and insurance product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$123m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $360.7m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Remote-First Culture: With employees in 40 states and counting, we promoted #remotelife long before it was adopted by other companies
- WFH Setup: Day 1, you'll receive a new laptop, a $1,500 allowance to spend on setting up your home workplace, and a monthly internet stipend
- Real Work-Life Balance: Ensuring you can spend valuable time with friends and family is a priority. We offer flexible PTO and a generous parental leave policy
- 401k Company Contribution: We love working here, but who wants to work forever? Take advantage of our 401K plan and generous company contribution
- Health and Wellness: Your well-being comes first. We offer a variety of plans to suit your needs, ranging from the basics to supplemental coverages
Company HQ
Columbus, Boston, MA
Leadership
Ty Harris
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at MIT before working as a Lecturer at MIT and Northeastern. Went on to spend 12 years at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Co-founded Quote Hopper in June 2017 and, after passing this onto an agency to run, co-founded Openly that August.
Matt Wielbut
(Co-Founder & CTO)Began their career with almost 8 years at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Recitate and Elements Insurance. Used this experience to co-found Openly with Ty.
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