[Hiring] Senior Director, HR Business Partners @SimplePractice

Role Description

We're hiring a Sr. Director of HR Business Partners to lead the HRBP function and model great partnership directly with senior leaders. You'll sit on the People Leadership Team, reporting to the Chief People Officer, and partner closely with executive leaders across all business functions and our HR Centers of Excellence — Talent, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Talent Acquisition. This is a player-coach role: you'll partner directly with one or more ELT members and their leadership teams while leading a small team of HRBPs who cover the rest of the business. The mandate is genuine partnership on org design, AI-enabled transformation, talent depth, and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Direct business partnership.
• Translate evolving business priorities into future-ready people strategies.
• Partner with ELT and their leadership teams on org design, workforce planning, talent, and change management before decisions get made.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness and leadership team dynamics as the business scales.
• Lead and evolve the HRBP model, ensuring alignment to business strategy, growth priorities, and organizational maturity.
• Define what great partnership looks like across org design, talent reviews, workforce planning, and COE collaboration.
• Build it into a repeatable, impact-driven model.
• Partner with the CPO to shape the people strategy for SP's AI transformation.
• Work with business leaders to diagnose which roles, team structures, and capabilities need to evolve as AI shifts how work gets done.
• Help leaders design orgs for AI-native ways of working and manage the change with their teams.
• Assess AI fluency as a leadership capability in talent reviews.
• Build multi-quarter workforce plans connected to business outcomes.
• Define capability gaps, including AI fluency gaps, and build the plan to close them across build, buy, and borrow options.
• Use data, analytics, and AI-driven insights to anticipate gaps before they become problems.
• Run rigorous talent reviews that produce real outcomes: clear successors, honest calibrations, paths for high-potentials, and decisive action where the bar is not being met.
• Own ELT and XLT bench-building.
• Partner with Total Rewards and Talent through compensation and performance cycles in a way that protects equity, rewards performance, and gives managers the language to have hard conversations.
• Lead, coach, and develop the HRBP team.
• Set the standard, hold the team accountable for delivering at that level, and build consulting, influence, and business acumen capabilities across the function.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in HR, with at least 5 years as a senior HRBP or HR leader supporting ELT-level executives in a high-growth SaaS or tech company.
• A track record of org design and change management work at the ELT-1 level that shaped measurable business outcomes.
• Direct experience partnering with business leaders through AI-driven org transformation, including workforce redesign, role evolution, and change management as AI shifts how work gets done.
• Demonstrated ability to assess AI fluency as a leadership and team capability and build it into talent reviews, succession planning, and development plans.
• Experience leading or developing a team of HRBPs, including performance development of HRBP talent.
• Experience navigating matrixed, fast-moving environments where the playbook hasn't been written yet.
• PE-backed experience a plus.
• BA/BS in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered.

Requirements

• Business judgment: You read a P&L, understand how SP makes money, and connect people recommendations to business outcomes.
• Influence at altitude: You push back on ELT members when warranted, deliver hard truths with care, and earn the right to be in the room before decisions get made.
• Diagnostic instinct: You identify the real problem behind the presenting problem and say so directly.
• Coach and multiplier: You make the HRBPs around you better. You build team capability, not just individual heroics.
• AI fluency: You understand how AI is reshaping org design, job architecture, and the nature of work in a SaaS business.
• Data-driven: You use workforce data and people analytics to sharpen your point of view, spot patterns leaders are missing, and challenge your own assumptions.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
• Mental health resources
• Paid parental leave & Backup Care
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)