About Inspiration Mobility Group:
Inspiration Mobility Group is a specialist asset management platform dedicated to accelerating the transition to an electric future. Inspiration invests in, owns, and operates the real assets that enable the decarbonization of transportation, including electric vehicles, charging and energy infrastructure, and real estate. Leveraging our unique combination of flexible capital, cutting-edge technology, and deep operational expertise, our businesses deliver integrated, scalable solutions for the electric economy.
To Learn More: Read the latest on our business here. We’re proud to have been recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in the large business category by the Washington Business Journal for the third year in a row.
Your Mission:
Your mission is to build and lead the HR Business Partner function as Inspiration scales, establishing HR capabilities across compliance, employee relations, and manager coaching. You will own the programs, systems, and team that lets employees do their best work, while advising the Executive Team on how our People strategy supports the business as we grow.
You will report to: SVP Operations
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Talent Director to develop and execute job architecture and comp strategy that attracts and retains great talent
- Own the employee benefits strategy: managing renewals, plan design, and broker relationships
- Experience with Rippling or similar HRIS as our system of record for people data and reporting
- Coach managers and leaders through performance management, difficult conversations, and people decisions
- Ensure HR compliance across all states where we operate, flagging and mitigating legal risk
- Proactively identify and support team members navigating AI-driven organizational change, including managing adaptation challenges and related retention risks
- Lead people strategy and culture across a fast-growing and evolving hybrid/distributed organization structure, including potential future office expansion
Who You Are:
- You have 11+ years of progressive HR experience across the full employee lifecycle
- You have a background in compensation strategy and benchmarking (e.g., using Mercer or similar survey data) and job architecture
- You have managed and developed HR staff
- You have owned employee benefits programs, including broker relationships and plan design
- You are skilled at employee relations, performance management, and coaching people leaders through difficult conversations
- You have a strong working knowledge of employment law and multi-state HR compliance
- You hold or are working toward an SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification
- You have experience managing people and culture across hybrid or distributed teams
- You have been exposed to organizational complexity (multi-business units, varying organizational levels) and/or M&A transitions
- Our core values (see below) are part of your inherent DNA, and you have many examples of when you demonstrated these values in your career.
Salary: $155,000 - 165,000 annually
Location: Washington, D.C. Our in-office team works from our Dupont Circle office Tuesday through Thursday. Remote work on Mondays and Fridays is voluntary, and employees are welcome to work from the office if they’d prefer.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
At Inspiration Mobility, you won’t just fill a role—you’ll help build the company. We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven team tackling real, complex challenges at the intersection of transportation, energy, technology, and finance. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership, move quickly, and turn ideas into action, with leadership that values pragmatism, creativity, and momentum. We believe in clear accountability, low ego, and learning as we go—giving you the chance to shape how we operate, scale, and win, while doing work that has a meaningful impact on the future of mobility.
Our Core Values:
Inspiration’s culture is based on a shared respect for our core values described HERE. Fit with these values is a critical component of our hiring process, and employees are expected to demonstrate these behaviors in their interactions with colleagues, customers, and all stakeholders. An assessment of how each employee has exhibited our values is an important part of our performance review process.
Our Commitment to You:
Inspiration is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. We are committed to DEIB initiatives and to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.
Skills Required
- 11+ years of progressive HR experience across the full employee lifecycle
- Experience with compensation strategy, benchmarking, and job architecture
- Experience managing and developing HR staff
- Experience owning employee benefits programs, broker relationships, and plan design
- Experience with employee relations, performance management, and coaching people leaders through difficult conversations
- Strong knowledge of employment law and multi-state HR compliance
- SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification, or active progress toward one
- Experience managing people and culture across hybrid or distributed teams
- Exposure to organizational complexity, such as multiple business units, varying organizational levels, or M&A transitions
- Experience with Rippling or a similar HRIS
What We Do
Inspiration is the first purpose-built EV solutions company. Our mission is to accelerate the electrification of transportation by partnering with fleet businesses to finance vehicles and deliver turnkey charging solutions to enable the rapid deployment of reliable, low-cost, zero-emissions EV fleets. Acting as a partner and system integrator, Inspiration designs and implements a custom solution that ensures every fleet electrification is seamless. Whether a company is a traditional fleet operator looking to transition to EVs or an electric mobility business launched as EV-only from the start, Inspiration can help.
