Senior HR Business Partner, Very Good Security
$120-155k
+ VGS stock options
More information about location
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Posted today
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
$120-155k
+ VGS stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including substantial experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or broad HR generalist role supporting leaders and employees
- Demonstrated success advising senior leaders and coaching managers through complex employee relations, performance, organizational, and talent decisions
- Working knowledge of California and multi-state U.S. employment practices, with the judgment to recognize when specialized legal guidance is needed
- Experience owning or materially contributing to core people cycles such as performance reviews, compensation planning, promotions, talent reviews, engagement, and workforce planning
- Strong business acumen and analytical skill; able to connect people data and employee feedback to operating priorities and concrete recommendations
- Excellent written and verbal communication, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to adapt your approach across employees, managers, and executives
- Sound judgment, discretion, and consistency when handling sensitive information and high-stakes decisions
- A practical, low-ego operating style: organized, responsive, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to move between strategic advice and detailed execution
- Exposure to workforce planning and headcount management processes
What the job involves
- VGS is looking for a Senior HR Business Partner who can pair trusted counsel with hands-on execution. You will support leaders and employees across technical and business functions, translate business priorities into practical people plans, and help VGS build healthy, accountable teams through change and growth
- This is a broad generalist role for an experienced partner who is equally comfortable advising a leader on organization design, coaching a manager through a difficult performance conversation, reviewing people data, and driving a people program to completion. You will support Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Go-to-Market, or other technical teams in a scaling technology company
- We are prioritizing candidates based in the Bay Area to support in-person partnership with leadership teams
- Business partnership and organization effectiveness. Build a deep understanding of assigned teams, their goals, and their operating context. Advise leaders on organization design, role clarity, team effectiveness, workforce planning, spans and layers, and talent priorities
- Manager coaching and employee relations. Serve as a first point of contact for managers and employees. Coach leaders through performance, feedback, conflict, attendance, accommodations, leaves, conduct, and workplace concerns; conduct or support fair, timely investigations; and partner with Legal or outside counsel when appropriate
- Performance and talent management. Lead the business-facing work for performance reviews, goal setting, talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, promotions, and corrective action. Help managers raise the quality and consistency of feedback and talent decisions
- Compensation and leveling. Partner with People leadership and Finance on compensation planning, job leveling, pay decisions, promotions, and retention actions. Apply established frameworks consistently and identify where clearer guidance or calibration is needed
- Organizational change. Plan and execute reorganizations, leadership transitions, and other changes with sound judgment, clear communication, careful documentation, and respect for the employee experience. Support compliant and well-coordinated offboarding and termination processes
- Employee experience and culture. Maintain an intentional listening cadence through employee check-ins, office hours, focus groups, and targeted outreach. Surface themes, distinguish individual concerns from systemic issues, and partner with leaders on practical actions
- People programs and operations. Translate company-wide programs and policies into effective execution within the business. Partner with People Operations and Recruiting across hiring, onboarding, engagement, mobility, leaves, and offboarding; improve processes where ownership or handoffs are unclear
- Insights and risk management. Use workforce data and qualitative signals to identify trends in attrition, engagement, performance, manager effectiveness, and organizational health. Provide leaders with clear recommendations while maintaining accurate, confidential case documentation and consistent practices
- How success will be measured:
- Leaders receive timely, clear, and business-grounded advice—and become more capable people managers over time
- Employee matters are handled consistently, respectfully, and with appropriate urgency, documentation, and follow-through
- Talent, performance, compensation, and organizational decisions are better calibrated and supported by useful data and clear frameworks
- People programs land effectively within supported teams, with strong cross-functional coordination and fewer ownership gaps
- Emerging organizational risks and employee themes are identified early and translated into practical action
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’s secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS is trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
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Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(Co-Founder)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(Co-Founder)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
Chuck Yu
(CEO)Previously CRO at DriveWealth, Vice President of Digital Partnerships at Visa and Head of Finance and Operations at Point.
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