Senior HR Business Partner, Sales & Customer Engagement (REMOTE)

At Aera, we deliver the cognitive technology that enables the Self-Driving Enterprise: a Cognitive Operating System that connects you with your business and autonomously orchestrates your operations. Aera's Cognitive OS leverages the best of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, big data, and enterprise domain expertise to deliver Cognitive Automation at scale for some of the world's largest companies.

At Aera, were rapidly growing our global teams to deliver on our vision of enabling the self-driving enterprise. Come join the fun!

We are interested in considering every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, at the present time, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Person must reside in the United States. This job will be 100% remote, someone on Eastern coast of US preferred, but not required.

Based anywhere in the US, preferably on the East Coast (remote), this is a mission critical role where you will partner directly with Aeras commercial leaders (our global head of sales as well as our global head of customer engagement) to develop and implement the People strategy to scale our global commercial teams. You will quickly establish yourself as a trusted partner and advisor on topics including organizational design, recruitment strategy, performance development, headcount planning, team culture and remote collaboration, and much more. You will also be the go-to person for managing the HR issues that naturally arise as a company scales.

While this role includes the core elements, youd expect to find in a traditional HRBP role, it also brings a heavy focus on growth and scaling. This role is broad in scope, covering the end-to-end lifecycle of our team members, from ensuring we have a strong pipeline of talented candidates, all the way through to leading exit interviews and actioning the learnings.

You bring an authentic passion for the employee experience and you are committed to creating an environment where team members can do their best work, ever. You have a proven track record of establishing successful partnerships with highly driven sales leaders and visionaries and helping them shape and execute their people strategies. You thrive in an environment where you are both strategic and hands-on tactical.

Are you up for your next big challenge? Then read on!

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted advisor on all things People-related to Aeras regional General Managers, head of Customer Engagement, and leaders within the commercial teams
• Develop strategies to foster a vibrant team culture, with close collaboration and effective communication across geographically dispersed team members, especially during Covid times
• With input from each leader, develop the hiring plan, define critical roles, and assist our recruiting team in crafting compelling job descriptions
• Make sure we have the right recruiting processes, velocity and focus to deliver against our hiring plan. Stay in close communication with the recruiting team, ensuring they are fully aligned to the hiring plan
• Develop a crisp understanding of the DNA of the organization and the attributes that make a team member successful. Take an active part in interviewing candidates, with specific focus on interviewing for this DNA
• Partner with our leaders to build career paths for their teams
• Develop strategies to help our managers identify, grow and retain top talent within their teams. Implement innovative people programming to support career development, performance management, and leadership development
• Stay close to the teams you support so that you can proactively surface and address challenges before they become real issues
• Provide thoughtful guidance and support to our leaders on people issues including performance management issues and, where applicable, terminations

About You

• Must have 5+ years in an HR Business Partner role, supporting Enterprise Sales teams across multiple countries
• 8-10 years of HR Generalist experience, including working closely with senior sales and customer success leaders
• Experience working in the Tech/Software Industry is preferred but not required.
• Experience creating, building and implementing Employee Programs, Processes and Procedures in a startup environment. You will be responsible for these initiatives from ground zero.
• High energy with a hands-on "doer" mentality, programs and processes need to be created and implemented for our teams, including HR, Recruiting, Engineering and Leadership.
• Proven experience successfully partnering with business group leadership to develop and implement People strategies
• Familiarity with international employment dynamics, ideally in EMEA
• Sound judgment and strong business acumen, high emotional intelligence
• Willingness to travel globally as needed; EMEA, APAC
• Must reside in the United States

This role has the option of being 100% remote, East Coast time zone is preferred, but not required.

Education

• Bachelors degree required; Focus in Business Administration/Human Resources strongly preferred
• Masters Degree a plus
• SPHR or PHR certification highly desirable

At Aera, we're on a mission to solve the biggest, most intractable challenges in the world of enterprise software. We envision the rise of the Self-Driving Enterprise: a more autonomously functioning business with a central operating system that connects and orchestrates business operations. Our Cognitive Operating System is increasingly used by the world's largest companies to fundamentally transform their organizations and how work is done.

If you share our passion for building the next generation of enterprise software, and deploying it for the most sophisticated customers in the world, youve met your match. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're growing fast, with teams in Mountain View and San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune and Bangalore (India), Sydney (Australia) and Singapore. So join us, and lets build the future of work together!

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