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Deepgram · 15 hours ago

Senior Human Resources Business Partner

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

7+ years exp

Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform for developers building speech-to-text and text-to-speech offerings. They are seeking a Senior Human Resources Business Partner to support employee relations, performance management, and scalable people practices within their growing remote-first organization.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data Collection and LabelingDeveloper APIsNatural Language ProcessingSpeech Recognition

Responsibilities

Serve as a 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 translate company strategy into people practices that are right-sized for scale

Identify patterns and systemic issues early and recommend practical, upstream interventions

Serve as a change partner to leaders, helping design, position, and operationalize organizational changes to drive understanding, adoption, and trust

Support performance management processes, goal-setting, feedback cycles, and manager capability building

Partner with leaders on team structure, talent and succession planning, and ways of working that enable strong performance and sustainable growth

Help managers navigate underperformance, role clarity challenges, and organizational change

Reinforce a culture of high performance without unnecessary bureaucracy

Help build and refine 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 grows

Partner with the Head of People to support change initiatives (e.g., policy updates, process shifts), including re-education, leader enablement, and reinforcement

Partner with People Ops, Legal, and Finance to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and our local partners with regard to international employment laws

Support leave administration, policy application, and complex employee situations

Help ensure People practices are defensible, consistent, and aligned with company values

Qualification

HR Business Partner experienceEmployee relations expertisePerformance management skillsManager coachingBusiness judgmentDiscretionNavigating ambiguityBuilding HRBP playbookWritten communication skillsVerbal communication skills