# Senior HR Business Partner

**Company**: VGS
**Location**: San Francisco Bay Area
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD 120,000-155,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- HRBP
- People Partner
- HR generalist
- California employment practices
- workforce planning
- headcount management
- performance management
- talent management
- compensation planning
- organizational change
- employee experience
- culture
- people programs
- operations
- insights
- risk management

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