Director, People Business Partner - Product

Director, People Business Partner - Product 

HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS) is a leading AI-powered customer platform that provides software and support to help millions of organizations grow better. We build marketing, sales, customer service, content management, operations, and commerce that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. HubSpot currently serves over 260,000 users in more than 135 countries with a workforce exceeding 8,000 across 14 entities spanning North America, LATAM, EMEA, and JAPAC.

We’re also building a company culture that empowers people to do their best work through our core values of flexibility, autonomy, transparency, and belonging. If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.

You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 5M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every HubSpotter globally who has helped build our remarkable culture, HubSpot has been named a top workplace by Glassdoor, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and more.

About the role:

Our HubSpot People team takes an innovative and flexible approach to HR (we aren’t your traditional People team). We embrace our unique culture and solve for our rapid business growth. We are looking for an exceptional Director of People Business Partners to provide strategic HR leadership to our senior leaders across our global Product organisation. Our Product org consists of Engineering, Product & UX.

The ideal candidate in this role will bring experience partnering with VP+ leveled executives in a fast-paced global technology company.  Experience supporting Product stakeholders is essential. You will also be passionate about learning HubSpot’s culture, how we support our leaders and our strategic goals. You can prepare to be immersed in our non-traditional approach to HR and how we help our leaders solve problems while staying true to the culture we are so proud of.

In your role, you will:

• Provide strategic HR leadership to our senior leaders across our global Product org which consists of Product, Engineering & UX
• Set a forward-looking people strategy, driving alignment and collaboration among executives to achieve organizational goals while also creating the operating model for partnership engagement within the Product pillar
• Serve as an advocate and coach for building diverse and inclusive teams while also holding a high bar for performance within our own team

• Guide and coach senior leadership across people-related areas such as talent & performance management, employee engagement, change management, and org design
• Proactively utilize people trends to identify gaps, and deploy people strategies that enable the organization to perform effectively, and scale efficiently as it grows
• Positively collaborate and influence across peers within our broader People team to drive People initiatives that solve for your clients' strategic needs 

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has over 10 years of HRBP experience in a high-growth technology company, specifically supporting Product/R&D as their primary stakeholder group.
• Seeks out and thrives in a culture of high ambiguity and knows how to drive success as priorities shift.
• Has a strong customer mindset & entrepreneurial spirit. Seeks out & incorporates customer feedback early and often.
• Wants to raise the bar; feels passionate about treating their stakeholders as customers and has a deep sense of ownership and urgency for their work.
• Has the ability to exercise sound and efficient judgment when managing complex decisions, and utilizes data and systems to drive decision making.
• Has an incredibly high level of confidentiality and discretion.
• Is a natural communicator and relationship builder to influence across all personalities.
• Is resourceful and resilient in the face of ambiguity and disagreement.
• Enjoys pivoting from strategic problem solving to strong execution (known to roll up their sleeves to get the job done).
• Is curious and wants to challenge orthodoxy.