HR Business Partner, Collective
$130-150k
+ Bonus & Equity
3+ days a week in office
Back-office platform for self-employed people
Be an early applicant
Back-office platform for self-employed people
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$130-150k
+ Bonus & Equity
3+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower Businesses-of-One to succeed for the life of their business and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner supporting technical or fast-moving organizations
- A track record of advising senior leaders across multiple functions
- Strong org design, workforce planning, and change management skills — comfortable building a path forward when no playbook exists
- Experience owning performance and compensation cycles, including calibration and manager enablement
- Working knowledge of employment law fundamentals and good judgment navigating employee relations issues
- Comfort working in an HRIS and turning people data into a clear story for leaders
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust at every level of the company
- A point of view on using AI as more than a drafting tool — experience or genuine interest in applying it to sharpen performance management, coaching, and manager training so teams build lasting capability, not just efficiency
What the job involves
- We're looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join our People team and help us scale with the same care we bring to our members
- In this role, you'll partner closely with senior leaders and their teams to shape how we organize, perform, and grow, combining strategic org design with hands-on coaching to help managers and teams do their best work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to leaders and managers across your client groups, including senior leaders, on organizational, leadership, and people matters
- Support employees and managers throughout the employee lifecycle, partnering with Recruiting, Finance, Legal and other members of the People team as needed
- Partner with leaders on org design, workforce planning, and talent development to support evolving business and team needs
- Coach managers through performance, employee relations, and team dynamics, ensuring issues are handled thoughtfully, fairly, and consistently and reinforcing a culture of high performance grounded in our values
- Lead People work streams from idea through execution, bringing forward clear recommendations, identifying tradeoffs, and escalating when needed
- Lead and improve core People programs, including performance management, manager effectiveness, performance reviews, engagement, and compensation cycles, keeping them practical, consistent, and easy to navigate
- Use people data, Rippling, and AI-enabled tools to identify insights, reduce manual work, and create leverage across People processes
- Spot trends and recurring challenges across teams and turn those insights into practical improvements to our People practices, manager support, and overall employee experience
Our take
Collective is tapping into the quickly growing freelance and self employed workforce with a back office platform which provides full support for accounting, tax, bookkeeping and other financial admin, essentially removing the burden from the business owner entirely.
Launched in 2020, Collective didn’t take long to receive major backing from General Catalyst as well as Ashton Kutcher’s VC fund Sound Ventures. It’s put it to great use too, with an employee headcount now in the hundreds, showing just how fast the startup is growing.
Interestingly, Collective isn’t available for any and all subscribers. Rather, it only allows applicants to become members if Collective’s advisors know they can offer real value. It may seem a counter-intuitive move, but it keeps the company’s success rate high.
The company's latest funding round, raised in 2023, supports the accelerated implementation of AI across its operations as well as expanded onboarding efforts. Collective also continues to broaden the value of its offering, for example wit the launch of an AI accounting platform for one-person operations.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$50m
EARLY VC
May 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $78.7m
Company benefits
- Flex work setup
- Flexible PTO
- 14 paid holidays
- Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
- Health, dental, and vision
- Additional medical coverage
- 401k plan
- Equity
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hooman Radfar
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded and was CEO of AddThis (acquired by Oracle), and was a founding partner at early stage startup accelerator Expa.
Ugur Kaner
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Was CPO before taking on an Advisor role. Joined YC startup in 2015 MBX as VP of Product Design, building multi-brand beauty and personal care startup Memebox. Helped to build the now public Udemy, and has worked with Google, Angry Birds, and Nokia.
Bugra Akcay
(Board Member & Co-Founder)Co-founded and was CTO of Hike, an accounting and tax platform for freelancers which preluded Collective. Was also the co-founder and CTO of Cici Meze, an enterprise food informatics company.
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