# Staff People and Learning Partner **Company**: Arc **Location**: Torrance, CA **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $140,000 - $170,000 annually **Category**: HR **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3601127 **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcboatcompany/jobs/5414469008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bed2f43e-826 ## Description ## Job Overview As Arc's Staff People and Learning Partner, you will own the people strategy for our Sales, Service, and G&A organizations while building the manager development and career growth systems the whole company runs on. ## Key Responsibilities - Business partnership: Partner with leaders across Sales, Service, and G&A on organizational design, headcount planning, reporting structures, and spans of control as those teams scale. - Coaching managers through the full performance cycle: goal setting, calibration, feedback, promotion cases, and performance improvement, grounded in Arc's leveling guidelines. - Conducting employee relations investigations end-to-end, counseling employees and leadership. - Leading terminations and role changes with dignity, and owning communication with the teams they affect. - Advising on California employment law, wage and hour compliance, and compensation practices across a mixed exempt, non-exempt, and commissioned population. - Translating people data into insights leaders act on, and presenting the case behind them. - Leading change management for policy, program, and process rollouts, preparing managers before their teams hear the news and serving as a source of stability through it. - Providing constructive pushback and playing devil's advocate when it's warranted, then owning the communication and execution of the decision even when it differs from your own view. ## Learning & Development (40% of the role) - Building and facilitating Arc's manager development curriculum, from first-time supervisor fundamentals through senior topics like coaching, delegation, difficult conversations, and performance calibration. - Designing career pathways for individual contributors that make Arc's leveling framework concrete. - Running skills gap analyses with functional leaders and turning them into learning roadmaps tied to business priorities. - Facilitating live workshops, cohort programs, and onboarding content yourself, supplementing with outside vendors only where they clearly outperform. - Measuring program effectiveness against behavior change and business outcomes, then iterating on what the data tells you. - Building the templates, documentation, and systems that let these programs scale beyond you. - Mentoring junior members of the People team and contributing to their professional and career growth. ## Requirements - Experience as a People Partner or HRBP supporting go-to-market, service, or corporate functions, including direct support of director-level and above leaders. - Demonstrated experience building a manager training or leadership development program from scratch. - Experience designing and rolling out career frameworks, competency models, or leveling guidelines that employees and managers actually use. - Strong knowledge of CA employment law, wage and hour regulations, compensation practices, and benefits strategies. - Proven ability to conduct and document employee relations investigations independently and defensibly. - Experience in people analytics and leveraging data to inform decision-making. - Ability to influence without authority at every level. - Ability to work on-site at our Los Angeles headquarters. ## Nice to Have - Experience in a high-growth manufacturing, hardware, automotive, or aerospace environment. - Background supporting a commissioned sales team, including partnering on comp plan design, or a field-based service organization. - Experience supporting a workforce that spans exempt corporate, non-exempt production, and traveling field employees. - Formal training or certification in coaching, instructional design, or facilitation. - Proficiency with an HRIS and LMS at the implementation level. - Experience standing up a People function's operating rhythm during rapid headcount scaling. ## Benefits - Base salary: $140,000 (P3) or $170,000 (P4) annually. - Highly competitive equity grants. - Semi-annual bonuses tied to your impact. - Top-tier benefits, including: - Healthcare benefits , 99% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision. - Parental leave , 14 weeks fully paid for birthing and non-birthing parents. - Generous time off , Highly competitive PTO with an opportunity to earn more time with tenure. - Income protection , Life and disability insurance for all employees. - Retirement savings , Traditional and Roth 401(k) access. - Water fund , $500 for you to spend each year to get out on the water. - Professional development , $500 annual reimbursement for professional development and a monthly AI stipend. - Safety Support- Annual reimbursement for PPE, ergonomic equipment and anything that ensures we keep our crew safe. - Captain training , Training and access to take Arc boats out with friends and family. - Office perks , Daily lunches, snacks, and good coffee while onsite. - Relocation assistance , Available depending on role eligibility. ## Skills ### Required - HRBP - People Partner - manager development - career growth - employee relations - California employment law - people analytics ### Nice to have - high-growth manufacturing - hardware - automotive - aerospace - commissioned sales - field-based service organization - coaching - instructional design - facilitation - HRIS - LMS --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arcboatcompany/jobs/5414469008?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)