Director, People Business Partnership

The role

You will act as a trusted people partner to executives to build high-performing teams. You will focus on management quality, organizational design, and leading the company through change and growth.

What you will do

• Partner with executives as a trusted advisor on team plans and pressure points
• Hold the bar for management and provide coaching, tools, and data to leaders
• Help managers translate company priorities into individual expectations
• Build a rhythm of check-ins, recognition, and actionable feedback
• Partner on career frameworks, succession, and internal mobility
• Help leaders build conditions for ambitious work and manage team capacity
• Partner with leaders and Finance on team structures and organizational changes
• Plan and execute major transitions including reorgs and pivots
• Use exit interviews, engagement surveys, and workforce data to identify root causes
• Handle complex employee relations matters and investigations

Required qualifications

• 7-10+ years of HR experience
• Significant experience partnering with senior executives in a high-growth or scaling company
• Substantial experience handling employee relations matters and involuntary departures
• Deep expertise in organization design, performance management, and leadership development
• A data-informed approach using quantitative and qualitative evidence
• A track record of improving how managers lead
• Ability to earn credibility with executives, including technical leaders
• Self-starter who moves with urgency and takes initiative
• Proven ability to lead through high-growth moments, organizational crises, and company pivots
• Exceptionally high emotional intelligence
• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward building useful structure
• Practical AI fluency and curiosity about how agents and automation can improve HR work

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Experience as an executive coach
• Experience leading a team of HR Business Partners
• Experience supporting a multi-state workforce, particularly in California and New York

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Leading configured work computers of your choice
• Flexible paid time off
• Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage
• Access to One Medical
• Option to enroll in an FSA
• 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver
• 8 weeks for all new parents
• Access to industry-leading technology

About the company

Imprint helps brands grow the lifetime value of their customers through modern credit programs and payments infrastructure. They partner with companies like Crate & Barrel, Rakuten, and Shell to launch financial products.