USA | Remote
Remote
Senior
Full Time
1 day ago
💰$ 129,500 - $ 161,900
fixed-term contractmaternity leave coverageremote-firstHR Business Partnersenior level
Requirements
- •7–10+ years of HR experience, including at least 5 years in an HR Business Partner role within high-growth or complex environments
- •Strong business judgment and the ability to understand context quickly, challenge assumptions when needed, and guide leaders through tough trade-offs
- •Deep experience in employee relations, performance management, and manager coaching
- •Demonstrated ability to ramp up quickly in a new environment and deliver results with limited onboarding time
- •Comfort operating synchronously and asynchronously in a remote-first, fast-paced, evolving environment
- •Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of discretion
What You'll Do
- •Serve as the primary point of contact for employee relations matters including performance concerns, interpersonal issues, investigations, and complex workplace scenarios
- •Coach managers through difficult conversations, feedback delivery, performance management, and documentation
- •Provide consistent, fair, and legally sound guidance across key employee lifecycle moments
- •Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on people-related risks, decisions, and trade-offs
- •Partner with the Head of People to maintain alignment between company strategy and people practices
- •Identify patterns and systemic issues early and recommend practical, upstream interventions
- •Serve as a change partner to leaders, helping operationalize organizational changes to drive understanding, adoption, and trust
- •Support ongoing performance management processes, goal-setting, feedback cycles, and manager capability building
- •Partner with leaders on team structure, talent planning, and ways of working that enable strong performance
- •Help managers navigate underperformance, role clarity challenges, and organizational change
- •Reinforce a culture of high performance without unnecessary bureaucracy
- •Maintain and apply existing People processes, templates, documentation, and manager resources
- •Partner on tools and workflows that improve consistency, efficiency, and employee experience
- •Balance compliance, speed, and sound judgment as the company continues to grow
- •Support change initiatives including re-education, leader enablement, and reinforcement
- •Partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and international employment laws
- •Support leave administration, policy application, and complex employee situations
- •Help ensure People practices remain defensible, consistent, and aligned with company values
- •Serve as the primary HR point of contact for immigration matters, partnering with recruiters to assess visa needs and timelines during the hiring process
- •Manage the day-to-day relationship with the external immigration law firm
- •Support employees through immigration processes such as H-1B, transfers, green card sponsorship, providing guidance on timelines and next steps
- •Partner with Legal, Finance, and People Ops to ensure immigration sponsorship decisions are consistent, compliant, and aligned with company policy
Nice to Have
- •Experience supporting distributed, remote-first teams
- •Prior work in a fast-growing startup or tech environment
- •Prior experience in contract or interim HR roles
Benefits
- •Medical, dental, vision benefits
- •Annual wellness stipend
- •Mental health support
- •Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- •Unlimited PTO
- •Parental leave
- •Flexible schedule
- •12 Paid US company holidays
- •Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- •One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- •401(k) plan with company match
- •Tax Savings Programs
- •Learning / Education stipend
- •Participation in talks and conferences
- •Employee Resource Groups
- •AI enablement workshops / sessions
About Deepgram
Deepgram specializes in providing AI-powered speech-to-text technology that offers audio intelligence, text-to-speech, and voice agent API.
San Francisco, CA
100 - 250
AI & Machine Learning