Principal People Partner

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money with peace of mind.
We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If you’re excited to redefine how work gets done through AI, automation, and operational excellence, we’d love to meet you.

We are hiring a Principal People Partner, based in Seattle, to report to our Director, People Partners and support a portfolio of Remitly's most technical and fastest-moving organizations.

This is a unique opportunity for a builder. As Remitly enters its next phase of growth, you will help design the next version of our organization — a more AI-enabled, global, and multi-product company. You'll partner closely with business leaders to identify gaps and create mechanisms to move faster, scale effectively, and win in increasingly competitive markets.

Success in this role requires strong business acumen, sound judgment, and a bias for action. You'll bring a forward-looking perspective, challenge the status quo, and help translate business strategy into organizational outcomes that enable long-term growth.

This is a senior individual contributor role. 

Business Partnership

• Establish trusted relationships with senior leaders in your portfolio as a thought partner who understands their business, their goals, and their challenges

• Bring the org and talent implications of a business decision forward proactively and provide clear recommendations and guide leaders through decisions where the trade-offs are complex.

• Partner across Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Total Rewards, and Learning & Development to deliver integrated solutions that drive business outcomes — keeping the business needs at the forefront

Organizational Design & Workforce Strategy

• Partner with your leaders to design organizations built for the next phase of growth, not just today's headcount

• Guide leaders through workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, and team effectiveness decisions

• Challenge assumptions and bring data, judgment, and business context to organizational and talent decisions

• Model AI-forward working, and translate what AI means concretely for engineering and product roles in your portfolio

Talent, Performance & Leadership

• Partner with leaders to build high-performing teams and strengthen leadership effectiveness across your portfolio

• Guide leaders through organizational change and high-stakes conversations

• Analyze and improve employee engagement, performance, and the end-to-end employee experience

Employee Relations & Organizational Health

• Identify systemic themes across employee relations cases and proactively address root causes before they become organizational risks

• Advise and coach leaders on complex situations including performance management, workplace investigations, conflict resolution, and organizational change

• Partner with Legal and Compliance to ensure adherence to employment laws across the geographies your teams sit in, including the US and Canada

Strengthen the People Partners Craft

• Set the technical bar as a senior HR practitioner, producing work that serves as a benchmark for other People Partners

• Build the tools, templates, and mechanisms that make the whole team better, not just your own portfolio

• Own or co-own a global People Partner program or process, such as position management, talent review, or manager enablement

• Mentor less experienced People Partners, and raise the bar on how the team uses data and AI

What You Bring

Experience

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, with significant time as a senior HRBP in a high-growth tech or fintech environment

• Proven track record as the senior-most People Partner to a technical organization — engineering, product, or data — influencing at the leadership table without positional authority

• Experience partnering with multiple senior leaders at once, and prioritizing well across a broad, ambiguous portfolio

• Track record of building mechanisms and tools utilizing AI

• Deep expertise in Employee Relations, including complex investigations, performance management, and multi-jurisdiction employment law compliance

• Strong background in organizational design and change management in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

• Experience owning full talent management cycles: performance, succession, leadership development, and engagement

• Experience supporting 0→1 or incubation teams, and comfort with the difference between running a new bet and running a mature org

Skills & Mindset

• AI-curious and tech-forward. Comfort with AI tools and people analytics platforms, and a record of using data to drive smarter decisions, not just to report on them

• Systematic thinker with a data-driven approach to spotting trends, diagnosing root causes, and measuring impact

• Strong business acumen. You understand how the business makes money and connect people strategy directly to business outcomes

• Courageous and direct. You give honest feedback at every level, including up, and you do it with care

• High tolerance for ambiguity and changing business direction. You create clarity in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment

• Mission-aligned. You connect with what Remitly is doing for its customers and their communities

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $148,000 - $175,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role. #LI-Hybrid

Our Benefits

• Flexible paid time off

• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching

• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave

• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Continuing education benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.