HR Business Partner

📋 Description

• Collaborate proactively and extensively with senior leaders in Customer and Sales, gaining a thorough understanding of their commercial model, team dynamics, and company metrics to influence the people agenda independently.

• Utilize AI tools and agentic workflows to uncover insights, streamline routine tasks, and enhance the quality of your deliverables, ranging from data analysis and trend reporting to preparing for discussions with leaders and managing project workstreams.

• Employ AI to efficiently report and oversee complex employment relations cases with simplicity, while coaching, guiding, and empowering leaders to take full ownership of these cases.

• Regularly review and stay updated on various reports for your client groups, comprehending the essential metrics at a level that connects to the people strategy.

• Constructively challenge leaders, balancing robust support with a willingness to challenge decisions that pose risks to people or the business, utilizing data and AI-generated insights to substantiate your stance.

• Harness people data and analytics to create narratives that foster leadership alignment; you leverage AI to delve deeper and faster, bringing valuable insights rather than mere reports to the discussion.

• Take ownership of HR project management across your client groups, ensuring that initiatives are organized, on schedule, and executed to a high standard, with AI integrated into your management and execution practices.

• Establish trusted, high-quality relationships with VP and C-suite stakeholders, positioning yourself as a peer to the business rather than merely a support function.

• Act as a change agent for people programs, influencing without direct authority and driving adoption with credibility and evidence.

• Collaborate closely with People Ops, TA, and L&D to provide a seamless employee experience throughout the entire lifecycle.

• Contribute to global People initiatives across Karbon's six operational regions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of progressive HR experience, including some business partnering, and at least a solid generalist foundation.

• Previous experience in SaaS or high-growth technology is vital. You possess a strong understanding of how a go-to-market (GTM) organization functions, what drives customer success (CS) and sales performance, and how to effectively communicate in terms of revenue.

• Genuine fluency in GTM domain — you have a foundational knowledge of critical metrics relevant to a Customer and Sales organization, such as GDR, NDR, churn, pipeline coverage, and quota attainment, and you naturally incorporate them into people discussions.

• An instinct for proactive partnership is essential; you don’t wait for requests. You analyze data, participate in business reviews, and present people insights before leaders recognize they need them.

• Proven ability to establish credibility at a senior level — you present yourself as a peer, not just a support function.

• Demonstrated ability to constructively challenge leaders — you are trusted specifically because you will push back when it is necessary, rather than simply affirming their decisions.

• Data fluency — you create persuasive narratives from people data, increasingly enhanced by AI, that impact strategic decisions.

• Hands-on proficiency with AI tools and agentic workflows — you actively utilize these tools daily to enhance your output, automate repetitive tasks, and expedite processes. This is not just an aspiration; it is our current operational standard, and it should be yours as well.

• Strong understanding of US employment law and HR compliance, with multi-state experience being highly valued.

• Recognized as a project driver: you are known for achieving results across multiple initiatives simultaneously without requiring close supervision.

• Experience in coaching senior leaders through organizational design decisions, workforce planning, and the strategic and human implications of forming AI-augmented teams.

• Unquestioned integrity, high emotional intelligence (EQ), and personal maturity — you manage sensitive circumstances with compassion and discretion.

• A genuine curiosity about the future of work driven by AI, with a desire to be at the forefront of this evolution rather than merely catching up.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible Time Off with a recommended usage of 4 weeks per year.

• Company-paid medical coverage for you and eligible spouse/partner and dependents.

• Paid dental and vision coverage for you and eligible spouse/partner and dependents.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Flexible Spending Account.

• Up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Work-from-home stipend.