Traversal
HR Business Partner
New York. Posted a month ago
The role
You will partner with founders and leaders on org health, performance, and people strategy. You will own the full employee lifecycle and build and automate systems to support people as the company scales.
What you will do
- Advise leaders on org health, performance, team dynamics, and manager effectiveness.
- Own employee relations and performance cases end-to-end.
- Lead performance reviews, talent reviews, engagement, compensation cycles, and manager enablement.
- Own the new hire experience from pre-boarding through the 90-day mark.
- Run internal transfers, promotions, terminations, and offboarding.
- Conduct exit interviews and report themes to leadership.
- Act as the first stop for employee and manager questions.
- Write and update HR policies, handbooks, and processes.
- Use HRIS data to recommend fixes to leaders.
- Build and automate processes using AI and SOPs.
Required qualifications
- 5–8 years in HR at a high-growth company, with a mix of HRBP/generalist and people operations work.
- Hands-on depth in employee relations, performance management, onboarding and offboarding, and compensation cycles.
- Working knowledge of federal, state, and local employment law, including I-9 and eligibility verification.
- Comfortable with HRIS and ticketing tools.
- Ability to write clear, professional documentation.
- Ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health insurance
- Fertility benefits
- Great tech setup stipend
- Flexible time off
- In-office snacks
- Team happy hours and outings
- Annual company offsite
About the company
Traversal is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise. The company is built to autonomously understand, diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents in complex production environments.