Senior People & Culture Advisor

The role

The Senior People & Culture Advisor will partner with technical and development teams to scale people practices. This role covers talent strategy, employee relations, payroll, benefits, organization design, and performance.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary P&C Advisor to designated client groups.
• Translate business strategy and growth targets into people and org design plans.
• Sit in on meetings as a thought partner.
• Answer team questions on payroll, benefits, policies, and other P&C ownership areas.
• Drive performance management cycles, calibrations, and goal-setting processes.
• Coach managers on feedback, performance conversations, and team development.
• Champion culture and engagement initiatives.
• Monitor engagement data and address risk areas.
• Manage employee relations issues.
• Ensure compliance with employment law across jurisdictions.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience, including 2+ years in an HRBP or generalist role supporting technical, engineering, or development functions.
• Team leadership experience.
• Strong generalist foundation.
• Experience in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (startup, scale-up, or rapidly expanding business unit).
• Demonstrated ability to build processes from scratch and adapt them as the organization scales.
• Business acumen: able to speak credibly with technical leaders about their org, not just P&C process.
• Strong employee relations judgment and experience handling sensitive matters independently.
• Data fluency: pulls insights from HRIS and people analytics to tell a story and drive decisions.
• Exceptional communication skills; flexes between hands-on tactical work and executive-level strategic conversations.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a data center, infrastructure, construction, or engineering development organization.
• Familiarity with technical career ladders and leveling frameworks.
• Experience at a company that scaled headcount significantly within 12–24 months.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus and equity opportunities
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
• Retirement savings with company contribution
• Employee referral program

About the company

Keel Infrastructure is a publicly traded energy and digital infrastructure company that develops and owns data centers and power assets across North America.