Staff People and Learning Partner

The role

You will own the people strategy for Sales, Service, and G&A organizations. You will build manager development and career growth systems, including designing and facilitating training curriculum.

What you will do

• Partner with leaders on organizational design, headcount planning, and reporting structures
• Coach managers through the full performance cycle
• Conduct employee relations investigations end-to-end
• Lead terminations and role changes
• Advise on California employment law, wage and hour compliance, and compensation practices
• Translate people data into insights for leaders
• Lead change management for policy, program, and process rollouts
• Build and facilitate manager development curriculum
• Design career pathways for individual contributors
• Run skills gap analyses and create learning roadmaps

Required qualifications

• Experience as a People Partner or HRBP supporting go-to-market, service, or corporate functions
• Direct support of director-level and above leaders
• Demonstrated experience building a manager training or leadership development program from scratch
• Experience designing and rolling out career frameworks, competency models, or leveling guidelines
• Strong knowledge of CA employment law, wage and hour regulations, compensation practices, and benefits strategies
• Proven ability to conduct and document employee relations investigations independently and defensibly
• Experience in people analytics and leveraging data to inform decision-making
• Ability to influence without authority at every level
• Ability to work on-site at our Los Angeles headquarters

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth manufacturing, hardware, automotive, or aerospace environment
• Background supporting a commissioned sales team
• Background supporting a field-based service organization
• Experience supporting a workforce that spans exempt corporate, non-exempt production, and traveling field employees
• Formal training or certification in coaching, instructional design, or facilitation
• Proficiency with an HRIS and LMS at the implementation level
• Experience standing up a People function's operating rhythm during rapid headcount scaling

Benefits

• 99% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision
• 14 weeks fully paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Highly competitive PTO with an opportunity to earn more time with tenure
• Life and disability insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) access
• $500 annual water fund
• $500 annual professional development reimbursement
• Monthly AI stipend
• Annual reimbursement for PPE and ergonomic equipment
• Captain training and access to take Arc boats out
• Daily lunches, snacks, and good coffee while onsite
• Relocation assistance depending on role eligibility

About the company

Arc is on a mission to electrify the marine industry by rethinking powertrains, software, and vessel designs. They are scaling production of their flagship model and extending their platform to commercial applications.