Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Alation
Job Summary
This hybrid Senior HR Business Partner role supports Sales, Customer Solutions, and Finance departments, focusing on L&D initiatives like manager development, performance, and engagement. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on partner, leading with urgency and ownership, deeply committed to building exceptional teams and outcomes. This high-impact position offers visibility and complexity, with opportunities to improve processes daily and contribute to strategic people programs.
Must Have
- 8+ years of progressive HRBP experience, preferably in tech, AI, data, or fast-paced global companies
- Experience partnering directly with Sales and Customer Success teams
- Fluency in core HR capabilities: performance, feedback, coaching, team dynamics, engagement, and talent planning
- Ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence
- Known for follow-through, ownership, and a solutions-focused approach
- Ability to build relationships across levels and functions
- Proactive, decisive, and solution-oriented ownership mindset
- Experience planning, launching, and facilitating performance cycles, manager development, and employee engagement efforts
- Ability to be a thought partner to business leaders and connect people strategy to business goals
- Skilled in using data, feedback, and judgment to make better people decisions
Good to Have
- Experience with Workday
- Conversational Spanish fluency
- SPHR/SHRM-SCP certification
Perks & Benefits
- Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities
- Competitive pay and health offerings including commuter benefits
- Flexible time off to relax and recharge
Job Description
Note, this is a hybrid role requiring onsite work in our office. Local candidates only. No relocation.
We are seeking a to join our People team (we work in a hybrid model - you’ll join us in our office twice a week to collaborate, connect, and enjoy a team atmosphere!).
Reporting to the Director, HRBP, this role is for someone who leads with urgency, ownership, and scrappiness - a hands-on partner who cares deeply about building exceptional teams and outcomes.
You'll support our Sales, Customer Solutions, and Finance departments and be a force-multiplier for L&D initiatives like manager development, performance, and engagement efforts across the company. This is a high-impact role with visibility, complexity, and the runway to make things better every day.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner with the Director, HRBP to plan, launch and facilitate performance cycles, manager development, employee engagement efforts and more.
- Be a thought partner to business leaders, connect people strategy to business goals and help teams scale without losing what makes them great.
- Influence decisions from org design to team health to leadership effectiveness, you'll work with your clients to shape how we grow and win.
- Help drive performance and engagement through impactful people programs: coaching, calibration, talent planning, rewards, etc.
- Turn insights into action: Use data, feedback, and judgment to flag patterns, solve problems, and help leaders make better people decisions.
- Flex between the strategic and the operational: supporting daily people needs while contributing to big-picture initiatives.
- Relentlessly improve our ways of working - simplify processes, automate what’s manual, and raise the bar for how we support our teams.
What You’ll Need:
- Have 8+ years of progressive HRBP experience - preferably in tech, AI, data, or other fast-paced, global companies.
- Have partnered directly with Sales and Customer Success teams, and thrive in their high-speed environments.
- Are fluent in core HR capabilities: performance, feedback, coaching, team dynamics, engagement, and talent planning.
- Navigate ambiguity with confidence and know when to ask, act, or escalate.
- Are known for follow-through, not just good ideas. You own outcomes, and take a solutions-focused approach.
- Enjoy building relationships across levels and functions, and can go from exec strategy to employee coaching without whiplash.
- Think and act like an owner: proactive, decisive, and solution-oriented.
- Embrace the mess - as long as it leads to progress over perfection.
- Bonus: experience with Workday, conversational Spanish fluency, and/or SPHR/SHRM-SCP certification.