Sonos
HR Business Partner, Product
Boston, MA · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 7 days ago
Performance ManagementEmployee RelationsResearchCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Sonos is the leading sound experience company.
- Our wireless home sound system makes it simple to enjoy listening to music, movies, and podcasts in every room.
- This Role is a Hybrid Position This position is considered hybrid, allowing for a combination of remote work and in-office collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Be the primary HR point of contact for a portfolio of frontline managers in Product. Build real relationships, the kind where managers call you before things become problems. Show up consistently and be someone they trust.
- Coach managers on how to identify high and low performance and manage their teams to clear expectations, not just during review cycles, but continuously.
- Help them build confidence having hard conversations early, documenting well, and following through.
- Regardless of where a manager is in their journey, they continuously need support nailing the fundamentals - giving feedback, running effective 1:1s, handling team dynamics, setting clear expectations.
- Support your client group through organizational change - communications, questions, uncertainty - in partnership with other Product People Partners. You're not running change strategy solo
- The best HR partners understand the business context behind every people decision.
- Build real relationships, the kind where managers call you before things become problems.
- Support your client group through organizational change - communications, questions, uncertainty - in partnership with other Product People Partners.
- Partner with other Product People Partners on performance cycles and other enterprise-wide People programs and initiatives.
- At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other.
Requirements
- Some experience in HR, People Operations, or a related field - enough to have a working foundation
- Basic Qualifications
- Strong work ethic
- comfortable with volume, pace, and ambiguity
- Organized and detail-oriented - managing multiple relationships and workstreams simultaneously
- Clear communicator, written and verbal
- Able to handle confidential information with discretion
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a business partner or generalist HR role
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and relationships quickly
Nice to have
- Exposure to performance management, employee relations, or manager coaching
- Comfortable standing up for your point of view in difficult conversations
- Thrives under pressure
- resilient when things don't go as planned
- Genuine curiosity about how businesses work and how people practices connect to business outcomes
- Comfortable working with data - able to read and interpret people metrics and use them to inform decisions and conversations
- Inclusion: Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria.
- If you don't have 100% of the skills listed, we still strongly encourage you to apply if interested.
Skills
- Frontline Manager Partnership
- Be the primary HR point of contact for a portfolio of frontline managers in Product.
- Show up consistently and be someone they trust.
- Always-On Performance Management
- Manager Fundamentals
- Change Management Support
- Programs & Performance Cycles
- Operational Excellence
- Research shows that some candidates may not apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria.
Compensation
- The base pay range for this role based off geographic location is:
Company info
- This is a core part of the role, every day.
- Partner with other Product People Partners on performance cycles and other enterprise-wide People programs and initiatives. You'll be a key part of making these land well for your client group.
- You'll be a key part of making these land well for your client group.
- We believe sound should fill every part of your life.
- We're looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help us shape the future of sound.
- We're looking for someone who finds energy in the work itself.
Equal opportunity
- Sonos is an equal opportunity employer.
- We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
- Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@sonos.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.
- We ask that applicants be authorized to work for us in country of role posting, both now and in the future.
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