Antares Pharma

Antares Pharma

Senior People Business Partner

Los Angeles · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
Employee RelationsHRISCompensationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Importantly, you will be a steward of our high-performance culture, implementing inspiring and scalable initiatives to ensure that our employees strive for excellence in everything they do.
  • Serve as the primary resource for employees and managers on HR policies, employee relations issues, and workplace matters, handling investigations and resolutions with sound judgment and discretion.
  • Leverage people analytics and workforce metrics-including hiring, retention, engagement, performance, and organizational trends-to identify opportunities and recommend data-informed solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Champion a high-performing, people-first culture that reflects Antares' values and supports employee engagement and business success.
  • Develop and implement HR policies, compliance practices, and operational processes that are practical and scalable.
  • Partner with people leaders to build their coaching and feedback capabilities through leadership development programs, manager training, and ongoing 1:1 support.
  • Lead and support employee lifecycle processes, including internal mobility, promotions, offboarding, leaves of absence, accommodations, and other People Operations processes while ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws.
  • Partner with Finance and business leaders on headcount planning, organizational changes, workforce planning, and job architecture to support business growth and operational efficiency.
  • Contribute to cross-functional People initiatives and special projects that support the continued growth and evolution of Antares.
  • As a Senior People Team Business Partner at Antares, you'll be a trusted advisor to leaders and employees, helping build an exceptional employee experience while enabling our teams to do their best work.
  • Startups are hard - it is your job to support our people in embracing the challenge with positivity, teamwork, and humility.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree.
  • 5+ years of progressive HR or People Operations experience in a high-growth, high-performance environment.
  • Strong knowledge of employment laws and HR best practices across multiple jurisdictions, especially in California
  • Ability to be direct, clear, and confident in interpersonal matters.
  • Think probabilistically and then take action. "If you want to be certain, then you are apt to be obsolete." Over-optimizing the components often degrades the system
  • If you can't make it, find a teammate who can channel your intentions and go in your place.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:

Skills

  • Experience as the first or early HR hire at a startup or scaling company.
  • Experience supporting both exempt and non-exempt employee populations.
  • Background supporting engineering, R&D, or manufacturing teams.
  • Experience with Rippling HRIS strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge of employment laws and HR best practices across other states, including WA, ID, SC, and others
  • Experience managing sensitive employee relations matters with sound judgment, discretion, and a balanced, business-minded approach.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Ability to be direct, clear, and confident in interpersonal matters.
  • Experience rolling out performance review cycles.

Compensation

  • Familiarity with compensation planning, organizational design, and workforce planning.

Benefits

  • This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and is energized by the opportunity to build from an early stage at a company with a global vision.
  • Partner with leaders to understand team dynamics, organizational health, and business priorities, providing strategic guidance on talent, performance, organizational design, and change management.

Company info

  • At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt. We're fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space. To achieve our mission, we're building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
  • Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Los Alamos, Idaho, and Oak Ridge. Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding.
  • About the Team
  • The People team at Antares is building the foundation for how we attract, develop, and support exceptional talent as the company continues to grow. We partner closely with leaders across Engineering, Operations, and Corporate functions to create scalable people programs, foster an inclusive and high-performing culture, and ensure employees have the resources they need to do their best work.
  • At Antares, our long-term mission is to make clean energy abundant from Earth to the Asteroid Belt.
  • We're fueled by the belief that advanced nuclear energy can strengthen our military, solve the climate crisis, elevate global living standards, and expand humanity's presence in outer space.
  • To achieve our mission, we're building mass-producible, inherently safe, deployable microreactors that can be used terrestrially, underwater, and in space.
  • Formed in 2023, the Antares team hails from SpaceX, The White House, MIT, Rigetti Computing, The Air Force, General Atomics, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, and National Laboratories like Los Alamos, Idaho, and Oak Ridge.
  • Antares has raised over $130M in venture capital from top-tier investors and has over $13M in government funding.
  • The People team at Antares is building the foundation for how we attract, develop, and support exceptional talent as the company continues to grow.
  • We partner closely with leaders across Engineering, Operations, and Corporate functions to create scalable people programs, foster an inclusive and high-performing culture, and ensure employees have the resources they need to do their best work.
  • You'll partner with our client groups to support day-to-day people operations, employee relations, organizational effectiveness, talent planning, and change management, while collaborating closely with Recruiting, People Operations, Legal, Finance, and IT.

Equal opportunity

  • Antares is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • Employment decisions are based solely on merit, competence, and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
  • Learn more about the ITAR here https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/?id=ddtc_kb_article_page&sys_id=24d528fddbfc930044f9ff621f961987.

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