Director, People Business Partnership

Your core mandate is to help make Imprint, person for person, the most extraordinary group of builders anyone will ever have the privilege to work alongside and ensure every seat stays extraordinary. As a trusted people partner to leaders across the business, you'll build teams where every role matters and people can do the best work of their careers. At the heart of that mission: making Imprint the home of the best managers people will ever work for.

Responsibilities

Partner with executives as a trusted advisor on people decisions; Make Imprint the home of the best leaders by defining expectations for great management and providing manager coaching and feedback loops; Make clarity and feedback an everyday experience through check-ins, recognition, and performance reviews; Turn strong performance into growth through stretch opportunities, career conversations, succession, and internal mobility; Build teams that sustain extraordinary performance by surfacing overloaded teams and coaching trade-offs; Shape how Imprint is built to grow, including team structures, spans and layers, and organizational changes with Finance; Lead the company through change, including reorgs, pivots, and communication plans; Leverage people data, including exit interviews, engagement surveys, and workforce data, to drive change; Handle complex employee relations matters and investigations across California, New York, and other states

Requirements

7-10+ years of HR experience, including significant experience partnering with senior executives in a high-growth or scaling company; Substantial experience handling employee relations matters and involuntary departures, with the ability to coach leaders through difficult conversations with candor and care; Deep expertise in organization design, performance management, and leadership development and the judgment to diagnose what a leader or team actually needs; A data-informed approach: you use quantitative and qualitative evidence to diagnose problems, build the case for change, and assess whether it worked; A track record of improving how managers lead, not just delivering manager training; The ability to earn credibility with executives, including technical leaders, and deliver advice that is clear, direct, and grounded in the business; Self-starter who moves with urgency and takes initiative without waiting for permission; Proven ability to lead through high-growth moments, organizational crises, and company pivots; Exceptionally high emotional intelligence; Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward building useful structure rather than waiting for it; Practical AI fluency and curiosity about how agents and automation can improve the way HR works

Nice to have

Experience in fintech, financial services, or another regulated industry; Experience as an executive coach; Experience leading a team of HR Business Partners; Experience supporting a multi-state workforce, particularly in California and New York

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity packages; Leading configured work computers of your choice; Flexible paid time off; Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including fully covered dependent coverage; Additional health coverage including access to One Medical and the option to enroll in an FSA; 20 weeks of paid parental leave for the primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents; Access to industry-leading technology across all business units