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.

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