Senior People Operations Business Partner

Who You Are:

You are a senior human resources professional with a passion for partnering with clients to bring talent solutions to their organizational needs.  You are an enthusiastic collaborator, with great ambition and passion for your work. You bring strong business and organizational development acumen. Our ideal candidate has a strong interest in human resources business partner work as well as people program design and management.  

You bring: 

• Passion for HR: Proven experience in a senior HR role, with a deep understanding of best practices and innovative approaches.
• Connection: You have the ability to build trust and connect with diverse teams and our team members at all levels of our organization.
• Optimism: A motivational team member with a positive attitude, ready to take Ai2’s culture to the next level.
• Operational Excellence: You see the big picture and can identify where iterative improvements and scalable workflows will enable the team to deliver more and increase impact.
• Data Driven Approach: You surface opportunities using data and analytics to inform and influence decisions. You get that it matters what we measure, and we should measure what matters.

Who We Are: 

The People Operations team at Ai2 is responsible for building and executing Ai2’s recruiting, talent management, compensation and benefits, policy and compliance, learning and development, workforce management, and organizational design practices. Like the rest of Ai2, we are an open, collaborative team that thrives in Ai2’s start-up culture. We are a highly collaborative, tight-knit team who work together seamlessly.  There is no task that is below anyone on the team (including you!)

Your Next Challenge:

You will operate as the Senior People Operations Business Partner to Ai2. In partnership with Ai2 leaders and the Head People Operations, you’ll be responsible for creating, developing and executing programs that enhance our culture, team member performance, and the team member experience of a talented team pursuing an extraordinary set of scientific and engineering challenges.  You’ll share in the ultimate responsibility for creating a great place to work and where our team members thrive in a collaborative and open environment. You will collaborate with specialist teams like legal, finance, communications, program management office, and People Operations specialists to drive decisions and programs that attract, retain, and grow outstanding talent at Ai2.

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Build trust and strong relationships with executive, senior, and frontline managers; provide continuous support and coaching to develop and up-level management talent.
• Operate talent assessment, performance evaluation, and performance management programs for the company; design and facilitate talent development, talent movement, and workforce planning programming.
• Build and maintain strong, sustainable ties to managers, mentors, and team members in a way that positions People Operations as a strategic advisor and representative of Ai2’s “voice of team member.”
• Steward our compensation philosophy through semi-annual compensation planning, compensation projects and programs, and high judgement compensation decisions affecting candidates and team members at all lifecycle stages. 
• Oversee–and proactively address opportunities–in compliance, employment law, policy definition, and employee relations; outline continuous processes for inspection of related mechanisms.
• Counsel team members at all levels on issues related to areas of responsibility.
• Identify new areas of responsibility, perform assigned duties, and collaborate on various Operations and People Operations projects as needed.

What You’ll Need:

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of progressive human resources (or relevant) experience; relevant advanced degree may substitute for equivalent years of direct experience 
• Demonstrated ability to independently identify need for, design, implement, and iterate people/talent programs 
• Both acumen and passion for people/talent data, metrics, and measurement
• Breadth of experience across multiple functional areas of human resources
• History of working across highly diverse organizations and delivering results through effective stakeholder management
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills; demonstrable ability to influence at all levels of an organization
• High degree of confidentiality, curiosity, and objectivity 
• Must be able to demonstrate Ai2s core values of “Innovate Together” , “Transparency” and “Truly Open”

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant advanced degrees, coursework, certifications, training, etc.
• Experience working with technical and/or sciences talent
• Previous mentorship experience focused on growing junior HR talent across functional areas
• Interest in designing, testing, and articulating decision-making frameworks

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a team member to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time. 
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations. 
• The ability to observe details at close range.
• Can work under deadlines.

A Little More About Ai2:

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Our mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems. We develop foundational AI research and innovation to deliver real-world impact through large-scale open models, data, robotics, conservation, and beyond.

In addition to Ai2’s core mission, we also aim to contribute to humanity through our treatment of each member of the Ai2 Team. Some highlights are:

• We are a learning organization – because everything Ai2 does is ground-breaking, we are learning every day. Similarly, through weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, a wide variety of world-class AI experts as guest speakers, and our commitment to your personal on-going education, Ai2 is a place where you will have opportunities to continue learning alongside your coworkers. 
• We value diversity - We seek to hire, support, and promote people from all genders, ethnicities, and all levels of experience regardless of age. We particularly encourage applications from women, non-binary individuals, people of color, members of the LGBTQA+ community, and people with disabilities of any kind. 
• We value inclusion - We understand the value that people's individual experiences and perspectives can bring to an organization, and we are building a culture in which all voices are heard, respected and considered.
• We emphasize a healthy work/life balance – we believe our team members are happiest and most productive when their work/life balance is optimized. While we value powerful research results which drive our mission forward, we also value dinner with family, weekend time, and vacation time. We offer generous paid vacation and sick leave as well as family leave.
• We are collaborative and transparent – we consider ourselves a team, all moving with a common purpose. We are quick to cheer our successes, and even quicker to share and jointly problem solve our failures.
• We are in Seattle – and our office is on the water! We have mountains, we have lakes, we have four seasons, we bike to work, we have a vibrant theater scene, and we have so much else. We even have kayaks for you to paddle right outside our front door. We welcome interest from applicants from outside of the United States.
• We are friendly– chances are you will like every one of the 200+ (and growing) people who work here. We do. 

Ai2 is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. You may view the related Know Your Rights compliance poster and the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision by clicking on their corresponding links. 

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants with disabilities to the full extent required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you feel you need a reasonable accommodation pursuant to the ADA, you are encouraged to contact us at [email protected].

Benefits: 

• Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
• Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
• Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
• Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
• Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
• Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses and can participate in the long-term incentive plan.

Note: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the team members(s) of this position. Team members will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the team member(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.