Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Deepgram
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as a primary point of contact for employee relations matters, including performance concerns, interpersonal issues, investigations, and complex workplace scenarios
- Coach managers through difficult conversations, feedback delivery, performance management, and documentation
- Provide consistent, fair, and legally sound guidance across key employee lifecycle moments
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on people-related risks, decisions, and trade-offs
- Partner with the Head of People to translate company strategy into people practices that are right-sized for scale
- Identify patterns and systemic issues early and recommend practical, upstream interventions
- Serve as a change partner to leaders, helping design, position, and operationalize organizational changes to drive understanding, adoption, and trust.
- Support performance management processes, goal-setting, feedback cycles, and manager capability building
- Partner with leaders on team structure, talent and succession planning, and ways of working that enable strong performance and sustainable growth
- Help managers navigate underperformance, role clarity challenges, and organizational change
- Reinforce a culture of high performance without unnecessary bureaucracy
- Help build and refine People processes, templates, documentation, and manager resources
- Partner on tools and workflows that improve consistency, efficiency, and employee experience
- Balance compliance, speed, and sound judgment as the company grows
- Partner with the Head of People to support change initiatives (e.g., policy updates, process shifts), including re-education, leader enablement, and reinforcement
- Partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and our local partners with regard to international employment laws
- Support leave administration, policy application, and complex employee situations
- Help ensure People practices are defensible, consistent, and aligned with company values.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years of HR experience, including at least 5 years in an HR Business Partner role within high-growth or complex environments
- Strong business judgment and the ability to understand context quickly, challenge assumptions when needed, and guide leaders through tough trade-offs
- Deep experience in employee relations, performance management, and manager coaching
- Comfort operating synchronously and asynchronously in a fast-paced, remote-first, evolving environment with shifting priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of discretion.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- 12 Paid US company holidays
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tax Savings Programs
- Learning / Education stipend
- Participation in talks and conferences
- Employee Resource Groups
- AI enablement workshops / sessions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
employee relationsperformance managementmanager coachinggoal-settingfeedback cyclestalent planningsuccession planningorganizational changepolicy applicationleave administration
Soft skills
business judgmentcommunication skillsdiscretioncoachingproblem-solvinginterpersonal skillstrust buildingchange managementadaptabilitycollaboration