📐 About This Role

WRITER is scaling rapidly, hiring team members across our three major hubs in San Francisco, New York, and London as well as in other select locations. The Director, people business partner for our engineering, product, design (EPD) organization will help bring our people vision and strategy to life and help our EPD team attract, inspire, develop, and retain the best technical talent out there. This is an incredible opportunity to be on the frontlines of enterprise AI innovation and to work directly with leaders and teams who are shaping the future of tech at an incredibly rapid pace.

This role is hybrid based in San Francisco or New York, with at least 3 days in the office per week, and will report directly to our Chief people officer.

🦸🏻♀️ Your Responsibilities

Be a trusted partner to people managers and team members alike and proactively address issues that may be holding people and teams back from doing their best work
Work with leaders across EPD to translate our EPD strategy and priorities into people-, organization-, and change-related initiatives that accelerate our progress
Work with EPD leaders to create and drive a high-performance culture
Bring both best practices as well as fresh problem-solving on issues of talent management and development, organizational design, retention, engagement, and more
Help strengthen our culture and people practices in how we engage and inspire team members, support growth and development, and help them perform to their potential
Partner closely with our Legal team on employee relations issues and ensure we are always fully compliant with local, state, and federal laws and requirements
Collaborate closely with other People team leaders at WRITER to make our People strategy, initiatives, and programs successful

⭐️ Is this you?

10+ years of HR or relevant leadership experience, with at least 5 years in a BP leadership role partnering with Director+ leaders in Engineering, Product, and Design organizations
Ideally experience working in a SaaS or enterprise technology company
Experience supporting leaders and teams in geographies outside the US, ideally UK and EMEA
Builder at heart; helped companies scale from a few hundred to many hundreds or 1000+
Excited about AI transforming human work and ideally experimented with it yourself
At your best leading through ambiguity and constant change, nimble and responsive to short-term surprises while still driving progress on longer-term initiatives
Emotionally intelligent and able to build strong trust and relationships with leaders and employees of diverse backgrounds at all levels
An exceptional communicator in both written and verbal interactions; clear, concise, and courageous in giving tough but supportive and respectful feedback when needed
Respected just as much for your business judgment as for your HR expertise
Approach every problem with a mix of prior expertise, ‘first principles’ thinking, and data
Drawn to and already live by WRITER’s company values of Connect, Challenge, Own

🍩 Benefits & Perks (US Full-time Employees)

Generous PTO, plus company holidays
Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)
Fertility and family planning support
Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
Annual work-life stipends for:
- Home office setup, cell phone, internet
- Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
- Learning and development stipend
Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

WRITER is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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