Senior HR Business Partner
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What the team is looking for.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The HR Business Partner team is a key partner in helping scale the organisation and support its talented employees. We work closely with senior leaders and their teams with the full lifecycle of an employee from onboarding, career development, recognition, performance management, org design and more.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Strategize with managers on talent from recruitment strategy and skill needs, to employee relations, rewards and recognition, and employee morale and satisfaction.
- Regularly track people data and identify trends and patterns on hiring, attrition, employee feedback, and compensation.
- Partner with compensation and benefits teams in administering and evaluating our rewards programs, and ensuring employees are educated and familiar with our offerings. Identify areas we can continue to enhance and improve.
- Provide partnership in organisational design through re-orgs, management changes, levelling & titles, and data & reporting.
- Give critical and direct feedback to managers on areas of opportunity so they can continue to grow and lead at a high level. Understand their organisations and products, to better help influence your recommendations and guidance.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6+ years as an HR generalist/HRBP with exposure/experience across other fields w/in HR or related discipline.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high growth, dynamic business environment; experience in the tech industry and supporting technical teams highly desired.
- Strong problem-solving, critical/analytical thinking abilities.
- Outstanding interpersonal and influencing skills; demonstrated ability to develop relationships and influence at multiple levels within the organisation.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with team members outside of the US on global issues.
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills and organisational consulting skills.
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
- You are motivated by complexity and challenges.
- You are comfortable in ambiguity and can pull relevant components out of complex situations to connect the dots and make sound decisions.
- You are a high energy person and like fast paced, dynamic environments that evolve before they have to.
- You are competitive and like to win - together. You thrive off working with smart, creative people that challenge you to perform at a higher level and draw the best out of you.
- You have a high learning agility and press in to understand people dynamics, new business models and talent processes.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
$160,000 - $198,000 USD
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.
- problem-solving
- critical/analytical thinking
- interpersonal and influencing skills
- communication (verbal and written) skills
- organisational consulting skills
- motivated by complexity and challenges
- comfortable in ambiguity
- high energy person
- competitive and like to win
- high learning agility
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