Staff People Partner, Corporate Functions

The role

You will act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, guiding them through organizational transformation and scaling talent strategies. You will own the delivery of core talent programs and provide organizational insights to drive decision-making for client groups.

What you will do

• Act as the connective tissue between People strategy and business objectives
• Translate enterprise-wide people initiatives into localized strategies
• Provide bidirectional feedback between the business and the People organization
• Own end-to-end delivery of core People programs like performance reviews and compensation planning
• Manage program timelines, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional dependencies
• Leverage data from people systems and culture surveys to build organizational health pictures
• Surface talent risks, succession gaps, and organizational design opportunities
• Serve as a coach and thought partner to VP+ leaders
• Coach leaders on raising the talent bar and managing performance
• Partner with Employee Relations and Employment Legal on sensitive situations

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive HR/People experience
• Meaningful time spent as a strategic business partner (HRBP or equivalent) in a fast-paced, hyper-growth technology environment
• Demonstrated experience directly supporting and influencing VP+ and executive-level leaders
• Track record of owning and delivering complex People programs end-to-end
• Ability to connect business strategy to people strategy
• Experience operating at the intersection of multiple People sub-functions
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Strong analytical instincts
• Experience identifying organizational health signals
• Familiarity with People analytics tools and dashboards
• Demonstrated success coaching senior leaders (VP+)
• Strong executive presence

Nice to have

• Curiosity about AI-powered tools and a willingness to learn and adopt them
• AI-forward mindset

Benefits

• Annual performance bonus
• Equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents.