Senior People Partner

Your Mission

We are looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to join a fast-growing, international scale-up at a critical stage of growth. Based in the US (East Coast time zone, fully remote), this role supports a globally distributed leadership team and our US workforce, as part of an international organization of approximately 200 employees.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments, combines strategic thinking with operational precision, and can confidently partner with senior global stakeholders. You will bring strong commercial acumen, act as a culture builder, and apply deep knowledge of US federal and multi-state employment law in a way that enables speed, clarity, and problem solving.

Responsibilities. 

Strategic Architecture & Organizational Design

You won’t just fill seats; you will design the house. You’ll partner with Global VPs and Directors to ensure our structure supports our ambitions.

• Workforce Evolution: Lead organizational design sessions to ensure our teams are lean, high-performing, and structured for speed.

• Strategic Advisory: Act as a "thought partner" to leadership, offering honest conversations and data-driven insights needed to move the needle.

The US Legal "Enabler"

Here, you are the "How" department.

• Pragmatic Compliance: Use your deep knowledge of US federal and state employment law (including FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII, and state-specific requirements) to create solutions that are both legally sound and commercially & culturally agile, putting people at the heart of compliance.

• Operational Excellence: Oversee our US employee lifecycle, from talent sourcing and onboarding to complex employee relations and investigations, with a focus on precision and agility.

• Total Rewards & Benefits: Partner with Payroll, Finance, and our benefits providers on US benefits, open enrollment, and compensation benchmarking to keep our offer competitive and compliant.

Culture as a Competitive Advantage

Culture can dilute during rapid growth. Your job is to make sure ours gets stronger.

• Leadership Coaching: Up-level our management layer, teaching them how to drive accountability without sacrificing empathy.

• Engagement Loops: Use real-time data to identify friction points in the employee experience and solve them before they become "issues."

Global-Local Bridge

You are the US expert with a global mindset. You’ll ensure that global initiatives (like new performance frameworks or compensation reviews) land perfectly in the US context, while ensuring our teams get a best-in-class employee experience. You’ll also be the voice of our US workforce in global HR conversations, bridging time zones and ways of working.

What You'll Bring To The Role

What you’ll bring to the role.

Experience

• Proven experience as a Senior HR Business Partner in a scale-up or fast-growth business

• Strong exposure to international or globally distributed organizations, ideally supporting US teams within a business headquartered outside the US.

• Deep, hands-on knowledge of US federal and multi-state employment law and its practical application in business.

• Experience with US benefits administration, open enrollment, and compensation practices, including FLSA exempt/non-exempt classification.

• SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP or PHR/SPHR certification preferred.

• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives in high-pressure, fast-moving environments.

Skills & Attributes

• Commercially driven, with a clear understanding of how HR supports growth and execution.

• A data storyteller: you don't just report on turnover; you explain why it’s happening and what the ROI of the solution will be.

• Comfortable operating at pace while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.

• Confident, credible, and able to influence and challenge senior global stakeholders.

• Pragmatic, adaptable, and solutions-focused.

• Excellent communicator in English, comfortable working across time zones, including regular overlap with European colleagues.

• Resilient, proactive, and energized by change & problem solving.

Why us?

The Reality of the Role

To be transparent, this isn't a "maintenance" role.

• The Pace: We move fast. You’ll need to be comfortable with 80% certainty and 100% action.

• The Ambiguity: Not every process is written down yet. You’ll be the one writing the playbook while we’re playing the game.

• The Stakeholders: You’ll be dealing with high-IQ, high-drive global leaders who value directness, data, and commercial logic.