Senior HR Business Partner
Diligent
About Us
Diligent is the AI leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) SaaS solutions, helping more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members to clarify risk and elevate governance. The Diligent One Platform gives practitioners, the C-Suite and the board a consolidated view of their entire GRC practice so they can more effectively manage risk, build greater resilience and make better decisions, faster.
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Position Overview
The Senior HR Business Partner is responsible for solving organizational challenges through people-related solutions. You will directly support a set of inspirational and impressive executives and their teams, while partnering cross-functionally with various subject-matter experts to design and execute strategies for how we attract, develop and retain talent across our global team. You'll also have the opportunity to collaborate internally on a variety of people-related areas. In this role, you will create and refine existing programs that support Diligent people managers and individual contributors. You will report to the Americas HR Business Partnering leader and work closely with the Chief People Officer.
Key Responsibilities
- Build strategic partnerships with business leaders to provide high impact advisory support on organizational and people-related strategy and execution. Solving people challenges across the relevant business areas to help the organization thrive.
- Elevate impact through data insights. Identify and surface trends in both qualitative and quantitative data to help improve organizational health, understand when data will assist in making smart, informed decisions, and interpret complex analyses and tie analyses back to business priorities.
- Proactively assess team and organizational needs, and help get to the root cause of any issue. Design and quickly implement solutions that cut across multiple disciplines, even those beyond people and organizational solutions.
- Provide expertise in the following areas: team engagement, career pathing and development, performance assessment and talent management, manager effectiveness and coaching, data analysis, compensation and total rewards, employee relations, learning and development, recognition programs, and strategic development.
- Provide support in all areas of HR and to all levels of Diligent employees, ensuring white glove customer service.
- Drive all cyclical processes within your business area, maintaining global consistency with other regional business partners.
- Build knowledge of best practices and regulatory changes in HR and employment law for business area and jurisdiction.
Required Experience/Skills
- 8+ years as an HR Business Partner, with at least 3 years in a strategic HR Business Partner role.
- Must be highly proficient in AI enabled skills and capabilities
- In-depth knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and industry trends.
- Extensive experience in handling employee relation issues within the Americas (CAN, US, South America).
- Proven track record of successfully positioning as a trusted partner and impacting teams and senior leaders
- Strong consulting, coaching, and facilitation skills.
- Ability to manage multiple, shifting priorities in a high-demand, fast-paced environment and prioritize, plan and execute on complicated assignments in a timely and efficient manner.
- Ability to exercise appropriate judgment, confidentiality, and discretion.
- Excellent oral and written communication, presentation skills, and organizational skills.
- Must be highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a technology or SaaS company is highly desirable.
- Experience in a global environment - providing HR support to global leaders and teams, while collaborating with global HR functions
- Enthusiastic, courteous, reliable, adaptable, and flexible.
- Self-directed and detail oriented, with strong analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills.
- Experience in partnering with Commercial, Customer Success and Post-Sales business areas.
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, business administration, communications, or related field.
What Diligent Offers You
- Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
- We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
- We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
- Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.
Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place.
Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, Singapore and Sydney. To foster strong collaboration and connection, this role will follow a hybrid work model. If you are within a commuting distance to one of our Diligent office locations, you will be expected to work onsite at least 50% of the time. We believe that in-person engagement helps drive innovation, teamwork, and a strong sense of community.
We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruitment@diligent.com.
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