Traversal
HR Business Partner
New York · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- This role is ideal for someone who can advise leaders on big people decisions in the morning and fix a broken onboarding workflow in the afternoon, and who cares about getting both right.
Responsibilities
- Employee Relations & Performance: Own ER and performance cases end-to-end. That includes investigating issues, coaching managers through documentation, and guiding decisions in line with company policy and employment law.
- Core People Programs: Lead and improve the programs that keep the company running: performance reviews, talent reviews, engagement, compensation cycles, and manager enablement.
- Onboarding & First 90 Days: Own the new hire experience from pre-boarding through the 90-day mark.
- Build & Automate: Don't just run the process, build it. Write SOPs other people can actually use, and use AI and automation to take repetitive work (status chasing, packet assembly, case intake) off the team's plate.
- Cross-Functional Partner: Work closely with Legal, Finance/Payroll, IT, Recruiting, and Workplace so handoffs are seamless.
- Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap.
- Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
- We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
Requirements
- 5-8 years in HR at a high-growth company, with a mix of HRBP/generalist and people operations work.
- Broad HR Expertise: Hands-on depth in employee relations, performance management, onboarding and offboarding, and compensation cycles.
- Employment Law Fluency: Working knowledge of federal, state, and local employment law, including I-9 and eligibility verification.
- You know when to flag something to Legal.
- Resolve what you can, route what you can't, and make sure nothing sits unanswered.
Compensation
- We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
- The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $160,000 - $200,000, plus equity and benefits.
- Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role.
- Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
- We offer competitive salary and equity packages, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off.
- Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.
Benefits
- Strategic People Partner: Be a trusted advisor to leaders on org health, performance, team dynamics, and manager effectiveness.
Company info
- Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
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