[Hiring] Principal People Partner @Pie Insurance

Role Description

The Principal People Partner ensures the successful contribution of our Pie-oneers by driving people and organizational strategies that enable and empower our leaders to lead their teams to achieve their highest-impact goals and drive success across the business.

As Pie’s People team evolves, we are seeking a highly strategic yet execution-focused Principal People Partner to serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving people and organizational strategies that enable our leaders and teams to achieve their highest-impact goals and drive business success.

These highly collaborative roles partner with executive leadership to:

• Design and implement talent strategies
• Foster high-performing teams
• Build a culture of performance, agility, and integrative thinking

The Principal People Partner role reports directly to the Chief People Officer and works cross-functionally across the PTE team and senior managers (primarily Director+), including the CEO and Pie’s Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

As a senior level individual contributor, the Principal People Partner brings considerable leadership influence and is responsible for:

• Aligning people strategy with business objectives
• Leading change management
• Providing expert consultation on all aspects of the team member lifecycle

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, related business industry experience, or leading teams with HR-related functions, or a combination of related experience/education
• 8+ years in an HR Business Partner/People Partner role or equivalent partnering with multiple executives
• High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree is preferred
• Prior experience supporting one or more of the following functional areas:
  • Insurance Underwriting, Claims, Customer Service / Support and/or Operations
  • Sales, Marketing and/or Business Development, inclusive of knowledge of incentive plan design
  • Engineering, Product Development, Technology
• Must be proficient with HRIS (Workday preferred) and collaboration tools (Slack, Google Suite)
• Experience with Greenhouse and Culture Amp preferred

Requirements

• Lead senior management in translating business strategy into a talent strategy that embeds and reinforces our culture and drives success across our business
• Align people strategies with business objectives, partnering with leaders to understand their goals and provide guidance on organizational design and development
• Serve as a strategic consultant to leaders, analyzing trends and metrics to identify gaps and patterns and develop solutions, programs, and policies that drive the best business outcomes
• Lead and support organizational change initiatives, including org design, leadership transitions, reporting structure changes, and People & Talent programs
• Guide leaders and teams through periods of transformation, developing comprehensive change management and communication plans
• Advise people leaders on matters related to team member relations, performance management, and conflict resolution
• Identify, manage, and mitigate risk through deep knowledge of employment laws, regulations, and best practices
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day and strategic management of team members
• Manage and resolve common-to-complex team member relations issues
• Partner with leaders to build and sustain high-performing, outcome-oriented teams
• Identify opportunities to enhance knowledge and develop skills; collaborate with enablement resources to create and implement training programs
• Oversee the performance management process, ensuring it drives development, engagement, and results
• Collaborate with People Team partners to develop and execute team member engagement strategies
• Demonstrate proficiency in HR systems (Workday, Greenhouse, Culture Amp, Google Suite, Slack)

Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave

Company Description

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

At Pie, our “employees” are team members, and we call ourselves Pie-oneers.