Senior HR Business Partner

VGS is looking for a Senior HR Business Partner who can pair trusted counsel with hands-on execution. You will support leaders and employees across technical and business functions, translate business priorities into practical people plans, and help VGS build healthy, accountable teams through change and growth.

Responsibilities

• Business partnership and organization effectiveness: Build a deep understanding of assigned teams, their goals, and their operating context. Advise leaders on organization design, role clarity, team effectiveness, workforce planning, spans and layers, and talent priorities.
• Manager coaching and employee relations: Serve as a first point of contact for managers and employees. Coach leaders through performance, feedback, conflict, attendance, accommodations, leaves, conduct, and workplace concerns.
• Performance and talent management: Lead the business-facing work for performance reviews, goal setting, talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, promotions, and corrective action.
• Compensation and leveling: Partner with People leadership and Finance on compensation planning, job leveling, pay decisions, promotions, and retention actions.
• Organizational change: Plan and execute reorganizations, leadership transitions, and other changes with sound judgment, clear communication, careful documentation, and respect for the employee experience.
• Employee experience and culture: Maintain an intentional listening cadence through employee check-ins, office hours, focus groups, and targeted outreach.
• People programs and operations: Translate company-wide programs and policies into effective execution within the business.
• Insights and risk management: Use workforce data and qualitative signals to identify trends in attrition, engagement, performance, manager effectiveness, and organizational health.

Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including substantial experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or broad HR generalist role supporting leaders and employees.
• Demonstrated success advising senior leaders and coaching managers through complex employee relations, performance, organizational, and talent decisions.
• Working knowledge of California and multi-state U.S. employment practices, with the judgment to recognize when specialized legal guidance is needed.
• Experience owning or materially contributing to core people cycles such as performance reviews, compensation planning, promotions, talent reviews, engagement, and workforce planning.
• Strong business acumen and analytical skill; able to connect people data and employee feedback to operating priorities and concrete recommendations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, strong facilitation skills, and the ability to adapt your approach across employees, managers, and executives.
• Sound judgment, discretion, and consistency when handling sensitive information and high-stakes decisions.
• A practical, low-ego operating style: organized, responsive, comfortable with ambiguity, and willing to move between strategic advice and detailed execution.
• Exposure to workforce planning and headcount management processes

Benefits

• Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
• Competitive health benefits
• VGS stock options
• 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting (available only for US employees)
• Life & disability insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending accounts, dependent and healthcare FSA (available only for US employees)
• Global parental leave program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Home Internet reimbursement
• New hire home office set-up allowance
• Professional learning reimbursement