Staff People and Learning Partner

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.