The Opportunity
As a Human Experience Business Partner, you’ll step into a highly visible role where your work directly shapes the future of our people and culture. You’ll support our Sales & Marketing organization both strategically and operationally, acting as a trusted advisor, change agent, and coach to our people leaders.
This isn’t just a HR role, it’s an opportunity to influence how we grow, scale, and build a culture of high performance and belonging in a fast-moving SaaS environment. You’ll partner with Executives and People Leaders, helping to align people strategy with business goals while ensuring our employees have an exceptional workplace experience.
Reporting to our Director of Human Experience Business Partners in Dublin, you’ll be part of a global team that is collaborative, forward-thinking, and passionate about making work a place where people feel energized and supported.
** This is a hybrid role which requires at least 3 days a week onsite in our (brand new!) Framingham, MA office**
**Applicants must have valid permanent work authorization in the U.S. (e.g., U.S. citizen, permanent resident). We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
What we can offer you
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Build strong relationships with people leaders across multiple functional areas and act as their trusted advisor in helping to align HR strategy with business goals.
Lead the design and execution of the people strategy for Sales & Marketing, championing culture, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.
Influence and drive organizational design & effectiveness, workforce planning, and the talent strategy ensuring we have the right capability to deliver business goals.
Partner with our Centres of Excellence to deliver innovative HR programs that enhance employee experience and business performance.
Drive learning and leadership development, working closely with leaders and our Talent Development Centre of Excellence, to build a culture of high performance and continuous growth.
Provide day/day tactical support to employees and people leaders through effective coaching and mentoring and manage industrial relations/employee relations issues.
Use data and insights to guide better decisions, measuring the impact of HR initiatives on culture, performance, and business outcomes.
The skills you will bring
Influence & Communication: strong presence with the ability to gain trust, challenge thinking, and inspire action.
Strategic Mindset & Business Acumen: ability to understand the business and demonstrate strategic and innovative thinking and execution.
Data Driven: leverage analytics to enhance decision making and showcase the impact and ROI of HR initiatives on business results.
Organizational Design & Effectiveness: ability to advise and inform org design principles, projects and change programs across the business areas you support.
Coaching Mindset: ability to mentor leaders, fostering growth in both leadership capability and team performance.
Professional Foundation: Degree or Master’s in HR/Business or equivalent depth of HR experience, with relevant HR certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP) desirable.
3+ years of experience as an HR Business Partner in a high-growth, fast-paced, agile environment
Self-directed and comfortable working independently while staying connected across a global team.
The base salary range for this position is $100,000–$130,000. Offered base compensation within this range will be determined based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographic location, and other factors relevant to the scope and responsibilities of this role.
This role is also eligible for bonus or other variable compensation based on job performance and our standard benefits package, which supports employee well-being and work-life balance.
Thank you for considering joining our team. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible application process for all candidates. If you encounter any difficulties or have specific accessibility requirements while applying for this position, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at g[email protected] for assistance. We are committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities for all individuals.
At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals’ differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don’t think you “check every single box” above, please still consider applying. We’re looking for a human who is collaborative, and innovative with a growth mindset. We love what we do because we’re shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world’s leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:
We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large sized workplace category. We were also recognised as a Best Workplace for Women and a Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium sized workplace category.
We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as a Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.
There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.
Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Workhuman® is helping companies meet today’s biggest human capital challenges - including unprecedented turnover, employee engagement, hybrid work environments, and DE&I - through the Workhuman Cloud®, a secure SaaS platform that provides the industry’s best-in-class Social Recognition® solution.
Co-Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and Framingham, Massachusetts, USA, Workhuman has been pioneering the human workplace to improve the employee experience at work, with solutions that engage with approx. seven million customer employees in 30+ languages, in 180 countries, generating 100 million moments of human connection.
Workhuman, employs over 1,000 people – including over 500 humans in North America who sell and market our solutions and services at scale, committed to helping companies improve returns on their most important investment– their people.
Why Work With Us
We love what we do because we’re creating a better future for the workplace – and beyond – through our technology and our people. We’re building cultures of gratitude, celebration, and human connection for leading global brands – and that starts with our own. Here, you can bring your true, authentic self to work. Every day.
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