[Hiring] People Business Partner @phData

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced, business-connected People Partner to join our People team and support People Managers and client leadership teams across phData’s US business. In this role, you will help leaders understand how People practices influence client delivery, team performance, capability, and retention. You will coach and advise leaders on employee relations, performance, talent, organizational change, manager effectiveness, and AI-enabled ways of working.

You will develop a working understanding of the teams you support, including their practices, client engagements, staffing relationships, and functional groups, and translate People strategy into practical manager actions. You will help leaders address issues early, identify patterns in leadership, capability, workload, staffing, and organizational design, and determine when additional expertise is needed.

You will work closely with the VP of Talent Development and cross-functional partners to help client leadership teams navigate these priorities with sound judgment and consistent follow-through.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Client Leadership Teams and Managers
  • Build trusted relationships with client leadership teams, practice and delivery leaders, and People Managers.
  • Coach and advise leaders on feedback, performance, development, team dynamics, role clarity, workload, retention, and other People matters.
  • Help managers determine the right support for each situation, whether coaching, development, performance support, conduct guidance, or a formal process.
  • Prepare managers for clear, timely, and constructive conversations.
• Handle Employee Relations Matters
  • Manage a range of US employee-relations matters, including multi-state situations, with appropriate documentation and confidentiality.
  • Gather facts, assess situations objectively, consider relevant risks and perspectives, recommend practical next steps, and help managers follow through consistently.
• Strengthen Performance, Talent, and Development
  • Embed performance management, feedback, talent assessment, compensation, engagement, and development practices into the regular operating rhythm of supported teams.
  • Help client leadership teams and People Managers set clear expectations, establish useful feedback habits, and support performance and growth processes.
• Support Organizational Effectiveness and Change
  • Translate organizational-design, transformation, and talent priorities into clear actions for client leadership teams, People Managers, and employees.
  • Identify root causes, recommend practical interventions, and coordinate assigned workstreams, communications, follow-through, and adoption with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner Across the People Team
  • Develop visibility into People themes across client engagements, leadership teams, and functional groups.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional People and business partners so managers receive connected, easy-to-navigate support.

How You’ll Know You’re Successful

• Managers address feedback, performance, and employee-relations matters earlier and with greater clarity.
• Performance, talent, compensation, engagement, and change practices are adopted consistently across supported teams.
• Cross-functional People support is coordinated, responsive, and easy for managers to navigate.

About You

• You are a trusted partner to managers who can think alongside them, translate People practices into practical action, and support consistent follow-through.
• You combine empathy with candor and help managers build on strengths while addressing opportunities for growth.
• You exercise sound judgment when information is incomplete or stakeholder perspectives conflict, and you know when to seek guidance.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive experience in Human Resources, People Business Partnering, HR generalist work, Employee Relations, Talent, or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience advising US client leadership teams and People Managers on employee relations, performance, feedback, development, and sensitive conversations.
• Working knowledge of US employment practices.
• Experience embedding People programs into day-to-day business practices.
• Experience supporting organizational change, organizational effectiveness, role and team design.
• Ability to use people data and qualitative insight to identify patterns and opportunities.

Skills and Capabilities

• Strong manager-coaching and business-partnering skills.
• Strong employee-relations judgment, investigation, documentation, and situation-assessment skills.
• Clear communication, facilitation, influencing, relationship-building, and cross-functional project-execution skills.
• Demonstrated comfort using AI tools in daily work.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting a technology-focused consulting or professional-services business.
• Experience supporting talent reviews, career frameworks, manager capability, leadership development.

Our Approach

At phData, People Partners help leaders build teams where people can do their best work, grow their capabilities, and choose to stay. Effective partnership combines business understanding, practical coaching, sound judgment, responsible use of AI, and consistent follow-through.

phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.