People Business Partner

Jack Morton Worldwide • Oakville, ON

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Jack Morton, we design and build head-turning, smile-inducing, impact-driving brand experiences that redefine what experiential marketing can achieve. We help our clients unlock the full value of experiences by turning bold ideas into meaningful connections. This is a place where curiosity drives what’s next, boldness raises the bar, and every win is shared. Where ownership is expected, egos are left at the door, and the work reflects the passion and talent of the people behind it. Experience without limits—in your work, your growth, and your impact. We're building what's next at Jack Morton. Experiential marketing is changing fast — how brands show up, how audiences engage, how stories get told live and in the moment. The People team is right in the middle of that change. We're not just supporting the business; we're shaping how it operates, how it scales, and how our people experience working here. We're looking for a People Business Partner to join us in Oakville, ON and support our North America operations as part of a global People team spanning seven countries. This isn't a maintenance role. It's a build role — for someone who sees a People function as a product to design, iterate on, and improve, not a service desk to staff. If you've been waiting for a chance to actually shape how HR gets delivered — including reimagining what AI can do for our people, our managers, and our work — this is that seat.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR / People experience, with at least 3 years as a true business partner to senior leaders.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian labor law. Will be the Canadian SME on the team.
• Experience in agency, creative, professional services, or another fast-moving, project-based environment strongly preferred. This role requires the ability to effectively manage pace and volume of assignments.
• A genuine builder mindset — you've built or rebuilt processes, programs, or ways of working, not just executed someone else's playbook.
• Strong command of the core: employee relations, performance, comp basics, employment law, org design.
• Hands-on, regular use of AI tools (Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar) as a real part of your workflow — not passing familiarity — and ideally early experience designing AI into how a team or function operates.
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can be direct without being harsh, and clear without being clinical. Ensures timely and complete follow up with all stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Comfort with ambiguity and change — bonus points for M&A or post-merger integration experience.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with leaders on org design, workforce planning, talent strategy, performance, and the harder conversations that come with running creative teams under client pressure.
• Owning the employee lifecycle for your client groups — onboarding, development, performance management, ER, offboarding — and looking for what's broken, repetitive, or quietly painful, then fixing it.
• Coaching managers to lead better. Real coaching — direct, specific, useful — not just policy reminders.
• Driving talent and succession conversations that connect to where the business is going, not just where it's been.
• Leading and supporting change through one of the most consequential moments in our agency's history. The current merger integration is reshaping how we operate, and your work will help define how that lands for our people.
• Building AI into how we deliver — from talent reviews to manager enablement to engagement listening — so the People function operates with leverage, not just effort.
• Collaborating globally with People partners in our other regions so what we build in NAM connects to a coherent global employee experience, not a patchwork of local solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level