HR Business Partner
Job Summary
Job Description
As an HR Business Partner at Wisk, you will align business objectives with people solutions, acting as a business professional and team member champion. Your responsibilities include building partnerships, translating business needs into performance requirements, and providing HR support for change management. You'll manage performance, handle employee relations, provide compensation guidance, contribute to organizational design, and implement HR policies and procedures. This role involves coaching, counseling, career development, and investigating employee relations issues. You will also be involved in compensation planning and organizational design and development, ensuring effective communication and employee engagement.
Must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in related discipline.
- 8+ years of HR experience.
- Experience in employee relations and operations.
- Demonstrate discretion with sensitive materials.
- Experience supporting multiple functions.
- Effective verbal and written communications.
- Deliver full-cycle projects in a timely manner.
- Adapt to a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
- Solve moderate to complex problems.
- Strong EQ and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of HR policies administration.
Perks:
- Great work environment.
- Annual bonus.
- Long term incentive.
- 401K.
- Health benefits.
- Free catered lunches.
- Flight lessons.
- Wellness allowances.
- Snacks and drinks.
- Employee referral bonus.
- Charitable giving match.
- Patent bonus program.
6 skills required
Job Details
At Wisk, we're transforming the future of urban mobility through safe, all-electric, autonomous flight. We are a passionate team working together toward a sustainable future, solving high-impact problems that have never been solved before. By delivering everyday flight for everyone, we're making it possible to spend less time getting there and more time being there. If you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility, then read on!
We are looking for an HR Business Partner to join our team based in Mountain View, California. The HR Business Partners at Wisk are responsible for aligning business objectives with people solutions in the organizations they support. Successful HR Business Partners act as business professionals, team member champions, change agents, and provide timely and accurate support to the organization and leadership team.
You will be part of the People team, which is responsible for looking after our people, fostering a strong and inclusive culture, ensuring we have excellent support to the organization, and so much more.
This is a hybrid work opportunity. At Wisk, this means working onsite at our Headquarters at least 3 days per week with flexibility for the remainder of the days.
Core responsibilities include:
- Business Partnering & Strategy: Build a strong and transparent partnership with the organizations you support, the rest of the People team, and the Leadership team within Wisk. Understanding your “customers” goals, challenges, and talent implications. Translate business needs into performance requirements and employee initiatives to maximize employee growth and retention. Act as a trusted and credible partner who anticipates needs and proactively recommends solutions. Optimize transformational change efforts, by providing HR partnership support, for leading and managing change.
- Performance Management: Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to leaders (coaching, counseling, career development and corrective action). Work closely with leaders and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity and retention. Ensure fairness and organizational consistency.
- Employee Relations: Serve as a point of contact for employee relations issues for your assigned team, providing guidance and support to managers and employees. Manage and resolve employee relations issues; conduct effective, thorough and objective investigations; create and maintain associated documentation. Maintain knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of team members, reducing legal risks and ensuring compliance. Ensure accurate and complete records are maintained.
- Compensation Planning: Partner with our Compensation team to provide guidance to managers on compensation decisions, including salary adjustment and promotions.
- Organizational Design & Development: Provide guidance and input on division structure, workforce planning and succession planning. Ensure development plans are in place for those you support. Support change management initiatives, ensuring effective communication and employee engagement.
- HR Policies & Procedures: Partner with their business leaders to communicate/interpret/implement policies, procedures, laws, standards and government regulations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, human resources, psychology, or other related discipline required
- Minimum 8 years of experience in all aspects of Human Resources
- Relevant, progressive people experience in employee relations, people operations, and/or organizational development
- Demonstrate discretion and sound judgment while working with sensitive and confidential materials
- Experience supporting multiple functions
- Comfortable using technology, especially Google Drive, Sheets, Slides, and Docs
- Effective verbal and written communications
- Passion for results; able to deliver full-cycle projects (start to finish) and results in a timely manner
- A team player who acts with a sense of urgency and adapts to a fast-paced and ever-changing environment
- Ability to solve moderate to complex problems; resourceful and takes initiative to seek internal and external resources when problem-solving
- Very strong EQ, with fine-tuned instincts and problem-solving skills
- Thorough working knowledge of contemporary practices in the administration of HR policies, including (but not limited to): salary administration and performance review processes; performance management; proactive employee relations; issue investigation and resolution; recruiting
Who you are:
- Highly motivated, self-starting individual with a broad set of skills and never afraid of facing complex challenges
- A strong communicator and can easily tailor your communications to suit the audience
- A skilled project manager with ability to manage short-term deliverables concurrent with longer-term strategic milestones
- A strong presenter and facilitator, have an executive presence
- Adaptable - you can adapt quickly or propose changes needed to achieve early results in a timely fashion. You thrive in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
- Results-oriented: You embrace challenges and take commitments and deliver results within reasonable expectations
- Positive team player, eager to make impact
$148,903 - $175,180 a year
Compensation and Benefits:
In addition to offering a great work environment and the opportunity to be part of the team making electric autonomous flight a reality, at Wisk, we offer excellent total rewards which include a competitive base salary, annual bonus, long term incentive, 401K, health benefits and much more.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay Range the Company expects to pay: $148,903 - $175,180 per year - The starting base salary within this range for this role varies based on factors such as your geographical location, and your relevant job-related experience that is consistent with a business necessity.
We are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds, including those from marginalized or underrepresented groups in the tech industry and aerospace, to apply for our job openings. We consider every candidate who shares our passion for making the impossible possible, even if they may not strictly meet all preferred requirements. We firmly believe that a diverse range of perspectives can profoundly influence both our product and our company culture.
Wisk HQ is located in Mountain View just a couple of hundred feet from Shoreline Lake and its surrounding walking/jogging trails. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 9 off Fridays for full-time employees throughout the year, flexible vacation time off, 11 company holidays, a 401(k) plan with 50% company matching vested immediately, commuter assistance, and education assistance. And on top of all that, we also offer a variety of perks such as free catered lunches, flight lessons, wellness allowances, snacks, drinks, employee referral bonus, charitable giving match, patent bonus program, and more.
To all recruitment agencies: Wisk Aero does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Wisk Aero employees, or any other organization location. Wisk Aero is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background check. Wisk Aero provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Wisk Aero abides by applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Wisk Aero is an E-Verify employer.
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