Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner
Seismic, a rapidly growing Forbes Cloud 100 company, is the global leader in enablement, helping make sales teams better by becoming more productive and engaging with buyers in a compelling way. Seismic’s platform provides continuous guidance to improve behavior, content, and skills to win more deals and deliver better experiences. Nearly 2,000 organizations including IBM and American Express have made Seismic their enablement platform of choice. Seismic integrates with business-critical platforms including Microsoft, Salesforce, Google and Adobe. Seismic is headquartered in San Diego, with offices across North America, Europe, and Australia.
As our Senior Director, Global HR Business Partner, you will be a key member of the People Leadership Team, reporting to our Chief People Officer. You will work closely with our C-level executives and business leaders to build out creative and innovative HR practices globally, creating a more agile and efficient organization. You will collaborate widely employing business acumen and data literacy skills to evolve and drive forward policies, processes, procedures, systems, and practices within the department and throughout the organization across the globe. You will identify areas of opportunity and propose transformative solutions, while fostering a diverse and compliant workplace. You will be an experienced forward looking business partner, proficient in using the latest technology to effect change and influence decision making at the highest level. You’ll also directly act as the strategic HR business partner for our G&A leaders to drive and execute our talent and engagement strategies of our People, Finance, and IT teams.
What you'll be doing:
- Deliver guidance and input on organizational structure, workforce and succession planning; identify and predict current and future talent needs.
- Lead and manage talent performance programs (e.g., performance appraisals, development plans, career development, etc.)
- Partner with business leaders on performance matters, providing coaching to both managers and employees for improved performance.
- Help resolve complex and unique employment-related issues and manage employee relations issues fairly, thoroughly, and proactively.
- Generate high potential development opportunities and explore new ways to engage and grow high potential talent.
- Form collaborative relationships, building on enterprise offerings to provide tailored approaches for the business that promotes a learning culture.
- Ensure compliance with applicable employment regulations and best practices that are highly aligned to meeting the needs of the business and improving employee experience.
- Analyze data to track and report on performance against our OKRs and target KPIs for the People team.
- Create and maintain a positive and engaging work environment that encourages the full use of diverse talents and abilities.
- Execute upon special projects and people initiatives as needed.
What you'll bring to the team:
- 10+ years in a HR leadership role, preferably in a high-growth tech company with 1000+ employees.
- 8+ years HR generalist experience.
- Solutions-oriented, developing and implementing human resources programs and plans globally.
- A strong bias toward action, with the ability to manage competing priorities and drive change.
- A strategic and analytical thinker with an operational mindset.
- An exceptional communicator, with the ability to effectively distill and package information and data for a wide range of audiences including executives.
- Strong business acumen, with analytical and project management skills.
- Excellent written communication skills, including formal presentation skills.
- Ability to thrive in a passionate, high energy, fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field.
- SPHR and/or SHRM-SCP preferred.
What we have for you:
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid sick leave
- Competitive Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- Robust 401(k) fund options with company matching
- Catered meals, happy hours, healthy snacks, and coffee bar
- Seismic Cares volunteer program
- #OneSeismic culture that celebrates wins, encourages autonomy, ownership, and transparency
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Headquartered in San Diego and with more than 1,300 employees across the globe, Seismic is the global leader in sales enablement, backed by firms such as Permira, Ameriprise Financial, EDBI, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and T. Rowe Price. Seismic also recently expanded its team and product portfolio with the acquisition of Percolate, Grapevine6, and Lessonly. Our board of directors is composed of several industry luminaries including John Thompson, former Chairman of the Board for Microsoft.
Seismic is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, or any other classification which is protected by applicable law.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.