Senior People Business Partner
About The Position
Hover is hiring a Senior People Business Partner to serve as a strategic advisor to leaders across Design, Operations, Product, and Engineering. This role is critical to ensuring our people strategy evolves alongside the business as we scale. You’ll partner closely with senior leaders to shape org design, elevate leadership effectiveness, and embed strong performance and change practices across teams — with real influence and a consistent seat at the table. You will contribute by You’ll act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders across Design, Operations, Product, and Engineering—helping them navigate complexity, make high-quality people decisions, and build healthy, high-performing teams. You’ll diagnose root causes, solve ambiguous problems, and bring clarity to areas where expectations, roles, or ways of working aren’t fully aligned. You will strengthen leadership capability, improve decision-making, and anticipate the people implications of changes before they surface. This includes coaching managers, addressing performance issues with nuance and rigor, and guiding teams through moments of transition. Above all, you’ll help leaders create sustainable systems, not one-off fixes. In practice, you will: Partner with executives on org design, leadership effectiveness, and strategic people decisions Diagnose team and organizational challenges; recommend actionable, systems-level solutions Coach leaders and managers through performance, development, and difficult conversations Lead change management for org, strategy, and operating model transitions Improve cross-functional alignment across Design, Ops, Product, and Engineering
Requirements
- Experience partnering with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Design, and/or Operations
- Experience in tech-enabled organizations
- Proven ability to influence and build trust with complex or challenging stakeholders
- Experience with org design, performance management, and change initiatives
- Comfort operating autonomously in ambiguous environments
- Interest in or application of AI in people or organizational work
Nice To Haves
- Agency or consulting background
- Experience in companies under 1,000 employees
- Exposure to complex, multi-team organizational change
Responsibilities
- Partner with executives on org design, leadership effectiveness, and strategic people decisions
- Diagnose team and organizational challenges; recommend actionable, systems-level solutions
- Coach leaders and managers through performance, development, and difficult conversations
- Lead change management for org, strategy, and operating model transitions
- Improve cross-functional alignment across Design, Ops, Product, and Engineering
Benefits
- Compensation - Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
- Healthcare - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
- Paid Time Off - Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
- Paid Family Leave - We support work/life balance and offer generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
- Mandatory Self-Care Days - A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
- Remote Wellbeing Resources - We provide recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
- Learning - We encourage continued education and will help cover the cost of management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
251-500 employees
