Senior HR Business Partner, Hinge
$124.2-165k
Dating app for meaningful relationships
Job no longer available
Dating app for meaningful relationships
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$124.2-165k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in senior HRBP or People Partner roles, with depth in org design, leadership coaching, and talent strategy
- Experience supporting VPs or senior leaders in a product-led or tech-driven organization, ideally in high-growth or complex environments
- Formal or informal coaching experience with a growth-oriented and feedback-forward style
- Strong systems thinking approach: You connect dots, ask second- and third-order questions, and consider implications at scale
- Change leadership experience: You’ve led or coached through reorganizations, team transformation, or leadership turnover with impact
- Data fluency: You can interpret engagement trends, talent metrics, and performance data to drive decisions
- Collaborative and low-ego: You care about shared impact more than credit, and lead with care, clarity, and accountability
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a systems-minded, strategic HR Business Partner to guide leaders and teams through scale, change, and complexity
- This role partners directly with senior business leaders to align people and organizational strategies with our most pressing business priorities — with a focus on building sustainable systems, enabling coaching-based leadership, and stewarding thoughtful change
- You’ll work cross-functionally with Org Development (OD) and People Operations to design high-impact solutions that improve how we operate, collaborate, and grow. This is an embedded, strategic role that sits at the table with leaders and helps shape the organization's evolution
- Advise senior leaders with context: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, grounding guidance in business context, team dynamics, and organizational health
- Coach leaders to think systemically: Help leaders navigate people-related trade-offs by fostering strategic, systems-level thinking
- Develop leadership capabilities: Guide growth through ongoing coaching, feedback, and targeted capability-building efforts
- Scale manager development programs: Partner with OD to expand coaching labs, enablement initiatives, and trust-building interventions
- Uncover root causes: Diagnose systemic patterns—not just symptoms—using data, observations, and contextual understanding
- Shape structural design: Collaborate with Org Development on role clarity, interfaces, spans and layers, and decision-making pathways
- Model systems thinking: Lead by example in managing interdependencies and anticipating ripple effects across functions and programs
- Strategize through change: Serve as a thought partner for leaders navigating reorgs, team evolution, and strategic pivots
- Embed change frameworks: Apply methodologies like Bridges or ADKAR to ensure clarity, communication, and adoption
- Support org transitions collaboratively: Co-create change strategies with OD and People Ops to enable smooth leader and team transitions
- Drive performance programs: Lead calibrations, development planning, and growth initiatives alongside OD and People Ops
- Coach for accountability: Enable managers to give candid feedback, manage underperformance, and foster psychological safety
- Champion cultural consistency: Reinforce culture through leadership behavior, manager effectiveness, and people practices
- Resolve complex ER issues: Handle sensitive matters in collaboration with Legal and People Ops, ensuring fairness and trust
- Mediate high-stakes conflict: Support teams and managers through behavioral challenges and interpersonal conflict
- Spot risk early: Identify emerging performance or behavior risks and guide mitigation strategies
- Proactively manage ER risk: Enable managers to address issues through documentation, coaching, and culture alignment
- Address team-level dynamics: Partner with OD to solve root causes of ER issues like low trust or poor psychological safety
Our take
Hinge is a dating app that stands out by prioritizing meaningful relationships over casual hookups. Designed for people seeking long-term commitments, it moves away from the typical "swipe" approach popularized by apps like Tinder. Instead, Hinge emphasized detailed profiles and compatibility-based recommendations so used can make deeper, more genuine connections.
Back in 2019, half of single people in the US had never tried a dating app. Fast forward to today, and online dating is just part of the norm. Hinge has carved out its place in this market by focusing on long-term meaningful relationships, and is certainly meeting the growing demand for companionship while riding the wave of the online dating trend.
The "dating app designed to be deleted" is the fastest-growing dating app on the market and with online dating becoming the mainstream, Hinge looks pretty set to stay at the top.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2014
$12m
SERIES A
Jul 2014
$4.5m
CONVERTIBLE
Total funding: $20.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid and Remote Work: If you're hybrid, you'll come in three times a week. We host our biweekly All-Hands meetings on Wednesdays (often with sweet treats).
- Dating: Experience what our users experience. All US-based Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates. Hinge Premium is also free for all employees and their loved ones.
- Retirement Benefits: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
- Health Insurance: high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.
- Paid Time Off: 20 accruable vacation days annually. Plus 1 floating holiday, 10 wellness days, 1 community service day, and a generous company holiday calendar. PTO increases with tenure after 2 years with the company.
- Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents). We also subsidize fertility care and preservation services.
- Wellness: We subsidize OneMedical, ClassPass, and CitiBike memberships. You and your dependents also have access to individual therapy, group therapy, and coaching services through Modern Health.
- Professional Growth: receive a $3,000 annual Learning & Development stipend after three months, along with free access to Udemy, an online marketplace with over 6,000 courses, starting on your first day.
- Meals: Receive a $30 weekly Seamless credit. In the NYC office, we offer plenty of options for snacks and drinks. Plus, free catered lunches in the office Tuesday through Thursday. In-office lunch varies by location.
- Community Service: We match charitable donations dollar for dollar to a maximum of $15,000 per employee, and give every US-based employee 1 day off for community service annually.
- Commuting: Every US-based hybrid employee gets a $125 monthly commuter subsidy to use for public transportation, parking, bike maintenance and storage, and more.
- Pets: Feel free to bring your best friend to work with you to the NYC office. For US-based employees, we’ll provide pet insurance for your furry family members, too.
- Legal Coverage: You’ll receive low cost access to legal coverage that covers custody and support matters, divorce, real estate and home ownership, tenancy issues, tax issues, wills and estate planning, and more.
- Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide $10,000 toward fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Company HQ
West Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Justin McLeod
(Founder & CEO)Having studied at Colgate University and Harvard Business School, Justin founded Hinge in February 2011. He has served as CEO since.
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