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DEPT®

VP, People Business Partner

DEPT®

. Serve as a trusted senior People advisor to craft leaders across Creative, Technology, Delivery, and Strategy .

Posted 11/12/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in performance management, talent strategy, and organizational design, with a strong ability to translate people data into actionable business insights. Proven track record in leading and developing people frameworks and teams within dynamic professional services environments.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Performance ManagementTalent StrategyPeople Framework DesignData AnalyticsStakeholder Management

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Hard Skills
Organizational DesignWorkforce PlanningTalent AssessmentSuccession PlanningEmployee RelationsCalibration ProcessesPeople Metrics ReportingPeople DashboardsCoaching LeadersDeveloping People Teams
Soft Skills
CommunicationInfluencingFacilitationStakeholder ManagementCoaching
Industry Keywords
CreativeTechnologyMarketingMediaProfessional Services

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as a trusted senior People advisor to craft leaders across Creative, Technology, Delivery, and Strategy
  • Partner with senior leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, talent strategy, talent management, employee relations, and leadership effectiveness
  • Coach leaders through complex employee relations matters and sensitive people issues
  • Advise leaders on performance management, talent assessment, succession, and organizational effectiveness
  • Partner with Finance and functional leaders to connect people strategy, organizational decisions, and financial planning
  • Lead the design and rollout of scalable people frameworks across the Americas
  • Own and evolve performance management and calibration processes
  • Establish standards for talent assessment, promotion, development, and succession
  • Implement scalable people dashboards across the Americas
  • Report on team shape, staffing mix, hiring, attrition/exits, employee satisfaction, talent movement, and other people metrics
  • Turn people data into actionable insights and recommendations
  • Own a portfolio of high-priority strategic People initiatives across the Americas
  • Build scalable frameworks, processes, and tools across multiple crafts and markets
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives from strategy and design through implementation and adoption
  • Lead and develop approximately 3–4 direct reports and 2–3 indirect reports
  • Establish team priorities, operating rhythms, and expectations
  • Coach team members to operate as proactive, strategic business partners
  • Partner with the broader People leadership team across the Americas

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Significant experience as a Senior People Business Partner, or HR/People generalist, with demonstrated progression into senior leadership
  • Strong expertise in performance management and talent processes, including hands-on experience leading or managing calibration cycles
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and influence senior leaders through complex people and organizational decisions
  • Proven experience designing and implementing people frameworks, programs, or processes at scale
  • Experience translating people data and analytics into clear business insights and recommendations
  • Prior experience managing and developing a People team
  • Experience working in an agency, creative, marketing, media, technology, or similarly dynamic professional-services environment, ideally within an organization of 500+ employees
  • Strong commercial orientation and the ability to connect People strategy to business performance
  • Excellent communication, influencing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
  • Comfortable operating with both strategic altitude and a high level of hands-on ownership
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a complex, matrixed, multi-disciplinary organization
  • Must be authorized to work in the U.S. (E-Verify/Form I-9)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
  • Equal opportunity, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace
  • Reasonable accommodation support throughout recruitment and employment
  • Purpose-driven work at a B Corp-certified company