About The Role:
The Senior People Partner (HR Business Partner) will enable business success, amplify our culture, and increase organizational effectiveness through ThoughtSpot’s People Strategy primarily across our R&D / Engineering organizations.
What You’ll Do:
- Strategic partner/trusted advisor to key executives and their organizations. Works closely with leadership to define and execute business strategies that enable growth and transformation.
- Defining and executing strategic global HR solutions.
- Lead management in organizational assessment and diagnosis to revise business strategies into actions that deliver results.
- Driving a high-performance culture across R&D / Engineering organizations
- Establishing a deep understanding of the functional area you support in addition to the overall business and strategy.
- Driving organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent initiatives to identify and execute against current and future talent needs.
- Leading organizational change efforts
- Engage as a consultant and coach to key leaders and their respective organizations while translating business needs into People plans and initiatives.
- Driving efforts to build upon our culture, values, and overall employee experience.
- Being proactive with people managers and leaders to ensure we are building high-performing organizations.
- Working – and leading – with peer People leaders to provide a “global, then local” approach to organization opportunities and initiatives.
- Delivering all HR programs such as performance assessments, promotions, succession planning, and employee engagement plans with Excellence and global consistency.
- Leading with data and metrics to guide decision-making.
- Understanding what change management needs to look like to work with and guide people managers.
- Partnering with our People & Places centers of excellence (Learning & Development, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition).
- Analyzing business and employee insights and metrics to drive system improvements.
- Driving and at times leading company-wide talent initiatives, collaborating for global success for ThoughtSpot.
What You’ll Bring:
- BA/BS or equivalent plus 14+ years of relevant People Partner experience
- Strong cross-functional partnerships and interpersonal communication skills; ability to communicate with senior leaders including executive leadership.
- A can-do attitude, agility in navigating changes, and ability to roll up your sleeves in a dynamic and very fast-paced environment. No job should be too large or too small.
- Seeks, collects, and synthesizes information from a variety of stakeholders and data sources in an objective, unbiased manner to raise awareness and/or drive change in the business.
- Ownership of HR programs and performance management activities within the business.
- A “business first” mindset and using that knowledge to apply HR and People solutions and outcomes
- Competence and understanding in the various HR functional areas: employee engagement, performance management, total rewards, learning and development, data and analytics, etc.
- Prior experience with a technology company required; cloud, BI/analytics, or platform as a service setting preferred
- Well-versed in employee engagement and performance management best practices