Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Our Mission and Opportunity
Early education is one of the most important determinants of childhood outcomes, a critical support for working families, and a $175B market that remains underserved by modern technology. Brightwheel is the largest, fastest growing, and most loved platform in early ed, trusted by millions of educators and families every day. We are a three-time Cloud 100 company, backed by top investors including Addition, Bessemer, Emerson Collective, Lowercase Capital, Notable Capital, and Mark Cuban.
Our Team
Our team is passionate, talented, and customer-focused. We embody our Leadership Principles in our work and culture. We are a distributed team with remote employees across every US time zone, as well as select offices in the US and internationally.
Who You Are
You've built real depth across HR domains — performance, employee relations, compensation, employee experience — and you know the trade-offs of each well enough to choose the right one for the situation in front of you, not just the one you've used before. You earn trust fast, whether you're coaching a first-time manager or advising a member of the executive team, and you're just as comfortable stepping into a new org as staying in your lane. You default to principles over rules — you can explain why a policy exists and know when it's right to flex it. You're genuinely curious about better ways of working, including how AI can help you and your stakeholders move faster, and you take ownership of ambiguous problems instead of waiting to be told what to do.
What You'll Do
Serve as the primary HR partner for a portfolio of corporate orgs, working directly with Directors, VPs, and members of the executive team on performance, employee relations, compensation, career development, and workforce planning
Lead our annual review calibration, promotion, and merit cycle for your assigned orgs — from prep through facilitation to final outcomes
Coach and develop managers to build a high-performance, accountable, and inclusive team culture, including navigating hard performance conversations
Advise on complex employee relations situations, balancing what's right for the employee with what's right for the business
Own strategic initiatives with your stakeholders — identifying the problem, aligning stakeholders, structuring options and solutions, and driving the outcome aligned to a business priority
Design HR processes and frameworks that hold up beyond your own portfolio — solving root causes, not just symptoms
Use AI tools to accelerate your own work — from ER documentation to policy drafting to workforce planning — and help raise the bar for how the broader People team works
Model strong HRBP partnership for your teammates, informally mentoring and sharing what's working
What You've Done
Experience as an HRBP in a fast-moving tech environment, partnering with a diverse set of stakeholders and business problems
A track record of leading — not just supporting — a calibration, promotion, or merit cycle, ideally in a high-performance culture
Comfort advising and coaching leaders up through the executive level, including through difficult or high-stakes conversations
A track record of owning a strategic initiative end-to-end for a business leader — from problem definition through execution
A history of designing or improving an HR process, not only executing existing ones
Genuine curiosity about AI and new tools — you don't need to be an expert, but you try things and iterate
What Sets You Apart
You've used AI to build a real, scaled workflow improvement — not just experimented with a chatbot
You've navigated a genuinely messy calibration or performance case (conflicting data, an underdeveloped process, a hard people call) and can talk through how you diagnosed skill vs. will and chose your approach
You've changed a leader's mind through data and judgment, not authority, resulting in a meaningful business outcome
You've mentored or shaped how peers approach HR partnership, without being asked to
Brightwheel is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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