Yaqeen Institute

Senior HR Business Partner & Generalist

Hybrid (Dallas, Texas, US) · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$100k-$300kDetected 20 days ago

ConfluenceEmployee RelationsHRISResearchCollaborationMentoring

About the role

Yaqeen has grown to roughly 130 people, with HR practices that need to be continuously evolved for the future.
This is not a pure-execution generalist role and it is not a pure-HRBP role, it is both.
You will draft offer letters and resolve employee-relations cases in the same week, and run onboarding in Rippling while coaching a manager through a hard conversation in the same day.

Full employee lifecycle execution Recruiting: partner with hiring managers on intake, job postings, screening, interview coordination, and offers.
Onboarding & off boarding: own the new-hire and exit experience, including paperwork, Rippling setup, equipment coordination with IT, orientation, and exit interviews.
Performance & development: administer review cycles, track completion, support managers through calibration, and coordinate development conversations.
Operations, systems & documentation Make Rippling the source of truth: clean data, build and maintain workflows, automate manual steps, and run reports on demand.
Manage People-function operations in ClickUp and keep the policy and process library current and discoverable in Confluence.
Document what currently lives in people's heads, turning informal practices into written processes managers can actually follow.
Support culture practices and tarbiya rhythms that make the workplace genuinely values-aligned, in collaboration with the Director of People.
partner with hiring managers on intake, job postings, screening, interview coordination, and offers.
own the new-hire and exit experience, including paperwork, Rippling setup, equipment coordination with IT, orientation, and exit interviews.
administer review cycles, track completion, support managers through calibration, and coordinate development conversations.

5-8 years of progressive HR experience, with at least 2 years in a Generalist or HRBP role at a 100-300 person organization.
You have carried real cases and real cycles, not just supported them.

you've partnered directly with managers (not just executives), can coach through hard conversations, and know when to escalate.
Hands-on HRIS experience (Rippling preferred
comparable system experience welcome), with a track record of using tooling and automation to replace manual work.
you've taken informal or scattered HR practices and turned them into documented, repeatable systems.
Preferred Skills Experience in mission-driven organizations, nonprofit, social impact, or values-driven companies.
Recruiting depth, particularly for knowledge-worker roles (research, content, engineering, product).
PHR, SHRM-CP, or equivalent certification.
Experience in Islamic, faith-based, or interfaith organizations.

manage open enrollment, benefits questions, leave administration, and routine comp adjustments.
Compliance & culture Keep Yaqeen compliant on employment-law basics - I-9s, classifications, leave, posting requirements, record keeping, and flag issues early.

performance feedback, conflict, accommodation requests, and departures.
Handle employee-relations cases end to end, intake, investigation, documentation, resolution, escalating to the Director of People when warranted.
Interpret policy consistently across functions and surfaces where policy is unclear, missing, or out of date.
Coach through routine and difficult conversations: performance feedback, conflict, accommodation requests, and departures.

This listing is sourced directly from Yaqeen Institute's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.