Tekion
Senior People Business Partner
Pleasanton, California, United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
RESTMachine LearningPerformance ManagementEmployee RelationsHRISCompensationLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You are the bridge between our business and our People strategy - and you are far more than a resource the business calls when something goes wrong.
- This role requires someone who is equally invested in the success of their client groups and the success of the People team itself.
- You will operate in an environment that is still being built.
Responsibilities
- Develop a thorough understanding of each client group's business model, goals, and pressures.
- Partner with leaders to build high-performing, engaged teams.
- Drive org design, succession planning, performance management, and leadership development with rigor and intentionality.
- Communicate change with clarity and conviction, build alignment across stakeholders, and help leaders bring their teams through transitions effectively.
- Share knowledge, collaborate across COEs, and show up as a champion for the function - not just your portfolio.
- Drive the end-to-end execution of People programs across your client groups - performance cycles, engagement actions, compensation planning, and more - with precision and follow-through.
- Identify gaps, design solutions, and build People infrastructure where it doesn't yet exist.
- Able to absorb feedback, adapt quickly, and maintain composure and positivity when things don't go as planned - because sometimes they won't.
- We need someone who sees this not as a liability but as the opportunity it is - to build something great, in real time, that will outlast you.
- Build deep, trusted, long-term relationships with business unit leaders and their teams.
Requirements
- You have a growth mindset - and you mean it.
- You are not here to demonstrate that you already have all the answers
- you are here to learn a new company, a complex industry, and a rapidly evolving environment.
- You are genuinely, sustainably positive.
- You are the person on the team who raises the energy in the room, not the person who quietly drains it.
- You coach leaders and employees toward higher engagement and performance - which means you have to model it every single day.
- You are fiercely loyal to the People team.
- Education: BS/BA degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Strategic Influence: Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisory relationships with senior and C-suite leaders - not just execute requests but shape thinking.
- Business Fluency: Ability to learn a business quickly, connect People initiatives to business outcomes, and speak the language of the leaders you support.
- ER Expertise: Sound judgment and experience handling complex employee relations situations with care, consistency, and appropriate urgency.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication - clear, direct, and compelling across audiences from ICs to executives.
- Organizational Agility: Comfortable managing a broad portfolio of priorities in a fast-moving environment without losing precision or follow-through.
- Resilience: Able to absorb feedback, adapt quickly, and maintain composure and positivity when things don't go as planned - because sometimes they won't.
- Drive to Make Others Successful: You measure your own success by how much better the people and teams around you are performing. Seeing others grow, succeed, and thrive because of your partnership is what fuels you.
- Preferred
Nice to have
- Experience in a high-growth startup or company scaling through significant organizational change.
- Experience supporting global or international business units.
Skills
- Experience is transferable.
- This section matters more than any other in this posting - please read it carefully.
- Not performatively positive.
- Not "positive on Mondays" positive.
- Your natural orientation is glass half full - and it holds up under pressure, in hard conversations, and on difficult days.
Compensation
- Program Execution: Drive the end-to-end execution of People programs across your client groups — performance cycles, engagement actions, compensation planning, and more — with precision and follow-through.
Benefits
- Serve as a genuine thought partner - not just a service provider - on organizational health, talent strategy, and team effectiveness.
Company info
- our technology, our culture, our processes, and our people practices.
- This is not a company that is optimizing what already exists.
- We are creating what doesn't yet exist - and we're doing it fast.
- If you are drawn to environments where you can make a real and lasting impact, where no two days look the same, and where the work you do today shapes how thousands of people experience work tomorrow - this role was built for you.
- 8-10 years of HRBP or People Business Partner experience, preferably in a fast-growth SaaS or technology company.
This listing is sourced directly from Tekion's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.