Director, people business partner (engineering, product and design)

📐 About this role

WRITER is scaling rapidly, hiring team members across our three major hubs in San Francisco, New York, and London as well as in other select locations. The Director, people business partner for our engineering, product, design (EPD) organization will help bring our people vision and strategy to life and help our EPD team attract, inspire, develop, and retain the best technical talent out there. This is an incredible opportunity to be on the frontlines of enterprise AI innovation and to work directly with leaders and teams who are shaping the future of tech at an incredibly rapid pace.

This role is hybrid based in San Francisco or New York, with at least 3 days in the office per week, and will report directly to our Chief people officer.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities:

• Be a trusted partner to people managers and team members alike and proactively address issues that may be holding people and teams back from doing their best work

• Work with leaders across EPD to translate our EPD strategy and priorities into people-, organization-, and change-related initiatives that accelerate our progress

• Work with EPD leaders to create and drive a high-performance culture

• Bring both best practices as well as fresh problem-solving on issues of talent management and development, organizational design, retention, engagement, and more

• Help strengthen our culture and people practices in how we engage and inspire team members, support growth and development, and help them perform to their potential

• Partner closely with our Legal team on employee relations issues and ensure we are always fully compliant with local, state, and federal laws and requirements

• Collaborate closely with other People team leaders at WRITER to make our People strategy, initiatives, and programs successful

⭐️ Is this you?

• 10+ years of HR or relevant leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a BP leadership role partnering with Director+ leaders in Engineering, Product, and Design organizations

• Ideally experience working in a SaaS or enterprise technology company

• Experience supporting leaders and teams in geographies outside the US, ideally UK and EMEA

• Builder at heart; helped companies scale from a few hundred to many hundreds or 1000+

• Excited about AI transforming human work and ideally experimented with it yourself

• At your best leading through ambiguity and constant change, nimble and responsive to short-term surprises while still driving progress on longer-term initiatives

• Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust and relationships with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds at all levels

• An exceptional communicator in both written and verbal interactions; clear, concise, and courageous in giving tough but supportive and respectful feedback when needed

• Respected just as much for your business judgment as for your HR expertise

• Approach every problem with a mix of prior expertise, ‘first principles’ thinking, and data

• Drawn to and already live by WRITER’s company values of Connect, Challenge, Own

🍩 Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

• Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Home office setup, cell phone, internet

  • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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