HRBP - Events & Employee Experience

About the Role:

We’re looking for an experienced HR Business Partner – Employee Experience & Events to lead Ashby’s efforts in creating a high-quality, engaging, and consistent employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle. Sitting within the People Ops team, you’ll play a key role in scaling how we connect as a distributed team — from onboarding and internal events to remote engagement, swag, and internal communications.

As the lead for employee experience, you’ll design and execute high-impact programs that bring structure and intentionality to how employees experience Ashby day-to-day. You’ll take ownership of our internal event strategy, including company-wide offsites, team gatherings, and in-person regional meetups, while also managing the programs and systems that support employee engagement more broadly — whether that’s swag fulfillment, onboarding touchpoints, or virtual connection moments.

While your core focus will be on experience and events, we’re looking for someone who brings a strong People Operations foundation. You’ve operated within (or closely with) a People Ops team and have experience owning or contributing to key functional areas like internal communications, policy development, learning & development, benefits, or compensation. You’re a clear and thoughtful communicator with strong written and verbal skills, capable of bringing ideas to life and ensuring alignment across stakeholders.

You’ve led and scaled employee experience programs in fast-paced, high-growth environments — ideally from 300 to 1000+ employees — and know how to build systems that scale globally. You understand how employee experience connects to the broader People Ops strategy and are equally comfortable thinking strategically and executing in the details.

We’re a growing startup, so there’s a lot to accomplish! You’ll seamlessly transition between big-picture program design and hands-on execution, collaborating across the business to deliver a best-in-class employee experience. In every initiative, you’ll ensure alignment with Ashby’s operating principles — building experiences that are thoughtful, high-quality, and grounded in how we work.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• +8 years of relevant experience, ideally in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment

• Leading Internal Events & Offsites:
  You’ll own the strategy and execution of all internal events — including company-wide offsites, functional team gatherings, and regional meetups. You bring a strategic lens to event planning, while also managing vendors, budgets, logistics, communications, and design to ensure every experience is intentional, inclusive, and impactful.

• Building Virtual & Remote Engagement Programs:
  You’ll build scalable, creative ways to connect our distributed team — from structured programming to surprise-and-delight moments. You know that engagement isn’t one-size-fits-all and are thoughtful about designing experiences that feel right for our culture and stage.

• Elevating the Onboarding Experience:
  You’ll partner with People Ops to create a welcoming, consistent, and high-quality onboarding experience. You’ll own the experience-driven elements of onboarding and develop programming or content that enables onboarding to scale effectively as the company grows.

• Owning Employee Experience Touchpoints:
  You’ll oversee the key touchpoints that shape the day-to-day employee experience — from milestone celebrations and swag to internal storytelling and communications. You understand the role of Ashby’s internal brand in creating elevated, consistent experiences that feel thoughtful and aligned across events, programs, and employee lifecycle moments.

• Driving Cross-Functional Program Leadership:
  You’ll collaborate closely with teams across Ashby — including Marketing, IT, Finance, and functional leaders — to align on goals, messaging, and timing for key internal programs and employee lifecycle moments. You’re a strong communicator and a proactive project driver.

• Building Scalable Systems & Infrastructure:
  You’ll create and improve the systems that support internal events, swag fulfillment, engagement programs, and budget tracking. You bring operational rigor and are comfortable building from scratch to support a growing, global team.

• Bringing People Ops Expertise:
  You bring a solid understanding of People Ops fundamentals and deeper experience in one or more core areas such as internal communications, learning & development, policy, benefits, or compensation. We’re a lean team, and you’ll work closely with others in People Operations — stepping in to take on additional projects and people initiatives with ease when needed.
  

You could be a great fit if:

• 🎉 You have deep experience leading employee experience and internal events programs in a remote or hybrid environment

• 📣 You demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling internal messaging and facilitate engaging programs or trainings

• ⚡️ A fast-paced environment with a balance of strategic program design and hands-on execution energizes you

• 🎧 You can balance working both independently and in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment

• 🌍 Your experience includes scaling programs for a distributed and asynchronous global workforce

• 💡 You have deeper expertise in one or more core People Ops areas — such as internal communications, learning & development, policy, benefits, or compensation

• 📦 You’ve built and scaled the systems and vendor relationships that support engagement programs, events, and other employee touchpoints

• ⚙️ Continuous improvement is how you operate — you are detail-oriented and always looking for ways to make employee experience programs more impactful and scalable

• 🗓 You have a proven track record of managing multiple complex initiatives at once, from large-scale offsites to global engagement campaigns

Bonus points if you have:

• An advanced degree in HR, Business, Communications, or Organizational Development

• An HR certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP)

• Experience leading change management initiatives in a scaling organization

• A track record of building or scaling People Ops processes in a remote-first or asynchronous environment

• Experience working with globally distributed teams

This role may not be a fit if:

• You’re looking to simply replicate processes or programs from past roles without adapting them. While prior experience is valuable, success at Ashby requires applying principled thinking to determine what will work best here.

• You’re uncomfortable working independently and need significant day-to-day guidance to perform your role.

• You’re not comfortable building rapport and working closely with leaders at all levels across the company, including navigating competing priorities and having direct or difficult conversations when needed.

• Your experience is limited to planning external events without leading internal employee experience initiatives, or you have no broader People Ops experience. While events and experience are a key part of this role, it’s important that you can also flex into other People Ops responsibilities.

• You shy away from ambiguity and prefer only highly structured, predefined assignments.

• You’d rather work closely with a single team than partner with multiple teams across the company.

About Ashby

We’re building the next generation of enterprise software and we’re starting with a suite of products that empower talent leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers to be a driving force for revenue & efficiency via a holistic, data-centric talent strategy.

We just raised our series D bringing our total funding to $120m and are backed by great investors, including Alkeon, Lachy Groom Y Combinator and Elad Gil. We have over 2,700+ amazing customers including Snowflake, OpenAI, Shopify, Ramp, Notion, and Zapier (and many others who we cannot name!) and the Ashby team has 220+ people globally.

Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, growing >100% year over year, very low churn, very high product velocity and many years of runway. We’ll share more details once we meet, but you now probably have a good idea as to why we're hiring for this role 😅.

Interview Plan:

• 30 min Recruiter interview with Anna (Recruiting)

• 45 min People Ops interview with Hannah (People Ops Manager)

• Assignment

• 60 min Hiring Manager interview with Jim (VP People & Talent)

• 2 hr final round, including interviews with our CEO, Chief of Staff and cross functional leaders

Ashby provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.