Lead HR Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Business Acumen: Develop a deep understanding of the organizations you support-their strategy, roadmaps, operating rhythms, and success metrics.
• Strategic Partner to Leaders: Ground recommendations in business context, org health, and team dynamics; help leaders think in systems, not symptoms.
• Org Design & Ways of Working: Clarify roles and interfaces, assess spans/layers, and strengthen decision rights and decision pathways across squads/platform teams.
• Leadership & Manager Development: Coach leaders and scale manager enablement (feedback, coaching, decision-making, trust-building).
• Talent & Performance: Lead calibration, development planning, and succession for critical roles; partner with People Ops to run transparent, equitable performance and compensation cycles.
• Compensation: Interpret Hinge's compensation framework and advise managers on offers, adjustments, leveling, and market reviews.
• Change Leadership: Co-create pragmatic change plans with clear communications and adoption through reorganizations and pivots.
• Team Effectiveness & Culture: Diagnose root causes behind team friction and improve psychological safety, accountability, and manager effectiveness.
• Employee Relations: Handle complex, sensitive matters in partnership with Legal, People Ops, and other key stakeholders; spot risks early and coach leaders to address them.
• Special Projects: Lead cross-functional initiatives that improve our operating system.
• Learning & Development: Identify capability gaps and partner with L&D to design or source programs that build critical skills.
• Data-driven Insights: Translate engagement, talent, and performance data into insights and exec-ready narratives.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 8+ years as an HRBP/People Partner - supporting Marketing, Brand, Creative, or Growth teams with depth in org design, leadership coaching, talent strategy, and building and rolling out scalable talent processes within fast-paced, high-growth, or tech-enabled environments.
• Change Leadership & Systems Thinking: Demonstrated ability to connect dots across teams and business priorities, anticipate second-order impacts, and lead thoughtful change initiatives - including designing and operationalizing core HR programs with strong adoption and measurable impact.
• Coaching & Advising: Proven ability to coach, mentor, and advise senior leaders and managers within dynamic, performance-driven organizations, balancing high standards with sustainable team health and aligning individual growth with evolving business needs.
• Influence & Communication: Strong data fluency and a collaborative, low-ego approach; exceptional communication, storytelling, and influencing skills with the ability to translate people insights into clear recommendations that drive alignment and action across cross-functional stakeholders.
• Nice to have: Formal coaching certification or background; experience supporting Marketing or other creative, consumer-facing functions at scale and leading end-to-end rollout of performance, talent planning, or engagement processes.

$150,000 - $180,000 a year
Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in New York City. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.
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+, R aices , 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.
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