The Role
The HR Business Partner will guide leaders through scale and change, enhance organizational strategies, support manager development programs, and resolve complex employee relations issues.
Summary Generated by Built In
Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted
In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role
We’re seeking a systems-minded, strategic HR Business Partner to guide leaders and teams through scale, change, and complexity. This role partners directly with senior business leaders to align people and organizational strategies with our most pressing business priorities — with a focus on building sustainable systems, enabling coaching-based leadership, and stewarding thoughtful change.
You’ll work cross-functionally with Org Development (OD) and People Operations to design high-impact solutions that improve how we operate, collaborate, and grow. This is an embedded, strategic role that sits at the table with leaders and helps shape the organization's evolution.
Responsibilities
- Advise senior leaders with context: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, grounding guidance in business context, team dynamics, and organizational health.
- Coach leaders to think systemically: Help leaders navigate people-related trade-offs by fostering strategic, systems-level thinking.
- Develop leadership capabilities: Guide growth through ongoing coaching, feedback, and targeted capability-building efforts.
- Scale manager development programs: Partner with OD to expand coaching labs, enablement initiatives, and trust-building interventions.
- Uncover root causes: Diagnose systemic patterns—not just symptoms—using data, observations, and contextual understanding.
- Shape structural design: Collaborate with Org Development on role clarity, interfaces, spans and layers, and decision-making pathways.
- Model systems thinking: Lead by example in managing interdependencies and anticipating ripple effects across functions and programs.
- Strategize through change: Serve as a thought partner for leaders navigating reorgs, team evolution, and strategic pivots.
- Embed change frameworks: Apply methodologies like Bridges or ADKAR to ensure clarity, communication, and adoption.
- Support org transitions collaboratively: Co-create change strategies with OD and People Ops to enable smooth leader and team transitions.
- Drive performance programs: Lead calibrations, development planning, and growth initiatives alongside OD and People Ops.
- Coach for accountability: Enable managers to give candid feedback, manage underperformance, and foster psychological safety.
- Champion cultural consistency: Reinforce culture through leadership behavior, manager effectiveness, and people practices.
- Resolve complex ER issues: Handle sensitive matters in collaboration with Legal and People Ops, ensuring fairness and trust.
- Mediate high-stakes conflict: Support teams and managers through behavioral challenges and interpersonal conflict.
- Spot risk early: Identify emerging performance or behavior risks and guide mitigation strategies.
- Proactively manage ER risk: Enable managers to address issues through documentation, coaching, and culture alignment.
- Address team-level dynamics: Partner with OD to solve root causes of ER issues like low trust or poor psychological safety.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in senior HRBP or People Partner roles, with depth in org design, leadership coaching, and talent strategy.
- Experience supporting VPs or senior leaders in a product-led or tech-driven organization, ideally in high-growth or complex environments.
- Formal or informal coaching experience with a growth-oriented and feedback-forward style.
- Strong systems thinking approach: You connect dots, ask second- and third-order questions, and consider implications at scale.
- Change leadership experience: You’ve led or coached through reorganizations, team transformation, or leadership turnover with impact.
- Data fluency: You can interpret engagement trends, talent metrics, and performance data to drive decisions.
- Collaborative and low-ego: You care about shared impact more than credit, and lead with care, clarity, and accountability.
As a member of our team, you’ll enjoy:
401(k) Matching: We match 100% of the first 10% of pre-tax 401(k) contributions you make, up to a maximum of $10,000 per year.
Professional Growth: Get an annual Learning & Development stipend once you’ve been with us for three months. You also get free access to Udemy, an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 6000 courses, starting your first day.
Parental Leave & Planning: When you become a new parent, you’re eligible for 100% paid parental leave (20 paid weeks for both birth and non-birth parents.)
Fertility Support: You’ll get easy access to fertility care through Carrot, from basic treatments to fertility preservation. We also provide a stipend towards fertility preservation. You and your spouse/domestic partner are both eligible.
Date Stipend: All Hinge employees receive a $100 monthly stipend for epic dates– Romantic or otherwise. Hinge Premium is also free for employees and their loved ones.
ERGs: We have eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)—Asian, Unapologetic, Disability, LGBTQIA+, Raices, Women/Nonbinary, Parents —that hold regular meetings, host events, and provide dedicated support to the organization & its community.
At Hinge, our core values are…
Authenticity: We share, never hide, our words, actions and intentions.
Courage: We embrace lofty goals and tough challenges.
Empathy: We deeply consider the perspective of others.
Diversity inspires innovation
Hinge is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process, please let your Talent Acquisition partner know.
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The Company
What We Do
In today’s digital world, singles are so focused on sending likes and looking through profiles that they’re not actually building meaningful connections and going on dates. Hinge is on a mission to change that by designing the most effective app experience. We want to create a less lonely world by inspiring intimate, in-person connections. Relationships are at the core of everything we do. And not just the romantic kind. We can't accomplish really hard things alone - so we make great relationships the foundation of our teamwork.
We believe these three core values are what it takes to build those great relationships: Authenticity, we share - never hide - our words, actions, and intentions. Courage, breakthroughs require a willingness to take risks and embrace lofty goals and tough challenges. Empathy, we're all humans first. So we deeply consider the perspectives of others, listen openly, and speak with care.
Why Work With Us
We're mission-driven. While most apps think about boosting sessions and time on app, we think strategically about meaningful end results (dates and relationships).
We're culture-first. We believe in great people over process. Decisions are pushed to the front lines, with feedback and coaching provided by our leaders.
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Hinge Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Hinge believes in the power of in-person connection. We have adopted a hybrid model that allows our people to stay connected to each other in-person.
Typical time on-site:
2.5 days a week
New York, NY
Our office is located in the beautiful Meatpacking district. We're steps away from the Whitney Museum of American Art and the High Line and near Chelsea Market. You'll not only fall in love with us, but with our office.
