Senior Director, People Business Partnering

Risepoint

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About The Position

Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs. Join Our Mission Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs. The Impact You Will Make The Senior Director, People Business Partnering is a highly experienced, People Business Partner who serves as the primary people advisor to VP-level and Director-level leaders within Risepoint. This role owns the execution of the people strategy for assigned business areas, translating business priorities into scalable people solutions across organization design, workforce planning, talent attraction and cultivation, engagement, and employee relations. This is a senior individual contributor role with significant autonomy, judgment, and influence. The Senior Director operates with minimal oversight, leads complex initiatives end-to-end, and plays a critical role in shaping how people practices enable growth—while partnering closely with the VP, People Business Partnering on strategy, alignment, and execution for People Team and business organization program and initiatives. Through this work, you will help leaders scale effectively, build strong teams and organizations, and deliver Risepoint’s growth priorities. How You Will Bring Our Mission to Life

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to advise Dir + senior leaders, influence decisions, and drive people outcomes aligned to business growth.
• Proven experience leading or shaping people programs and change initiatives, with a strong understanding of talent acquisition, organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, and manager capability in growing or evolving organizations.
• Strong strategic judgment, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to leverage qualitative and quantitative information to identify patterns, assess risk, and translate people insights into practical guidance for leaders.
• Experience supporting organizations through meaningful transformation, such as scaling or shifts in ways of working, with the ability to help leaders navigate change thoughtfully and sustainably.
• Experience in high growth, transformation, or PE backed environments where pace, ambiguity, and rigor are the norm.
• Ability to exert executive influence and impact and willingness to execute operational responsibilities.
• Experience in companies in progressive HR function, modernizing people processes and leveraging technology (including HR systems, analytics, or emerging AI-enabled tools) to improve decision-making, efficiency, and organizational effectiveness.
• Experience in $1B+ or similarly complex organizations and role a must

Nice To Haves

• Hand-on experience with Workday
• Prior support of Marketing and/or Operations functions
• Experience in mission driven, education or ed tech industry a plus

Responsibilities

• Strategic People Partnership: Advise and challenge Director - VP level leaders on talent, structure, processes and leadership effectiveness, translating business strategy into scalable people solutions.
• Shape functional people priorities by identifying enterprise-wide themes, risks, and opportunities across assigned business areas and translating them into scalable solutions and clear directions for leaders.
• Org Design and Workforce Planning: Lead org design, workforce planning, and change initiatives in partnership with business leaders, finance and VP PBP to ensure efficient, scalable structures.
• Manager and Leader Effectiveness: Coach leaders on talent cultivation and complex employee relations situations drive consistent, high-quality execution of people processes and programs.
• Talent Attraction Partnership: Partner with leadership and TA on Director+ and critical hires, advising on selection, interview quality, and offer strategy.
• Talent Cultivation Excellence: Partner with COE’s to implement and consistently improve talent cultivation processes.
• Data, Insights and Operating Rhythm: Ensure data integrity and leverage people data and to diagnose issues, track progress, and inform strategic people actions aligned to broader priorities.
• Employee Relations: Resolve employee relations matters with sound judgment, ensuring fair, compliant outcomes and high-trust employee experience partnering with in-house counsel as needed.
• Evolve People Team Function: Lead cross-functional People initiatives that strengthen capabilities, processes, and impact of the People Team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed