Senior HR Business Partner

Join Headway as a Senior HR Business Partner, where you'll play a crucial role in supporting our growing Engineering organization. In this high-visibility, cross-functional role, you'll work closely with HR and Engineering leadership to build and execute people strategies that enable sustainable growth. You'll act as a trusted advisor to managers and employees, using data-driven insights to identify trends and lead high-impact initiatives. This role also involves partnering with our Centers of Excellence to ensure the Engineering organization has the support it needs across the entire HR lifecycle.

• Independently partner with leaders to translate business priorities into actionable people plans, connecting People programs to functional goals.
• Lead performance management and talent review processes with rigor and follow-through within the organization, coaching people managers to set clear expectations.
• Build trusted relationships with managers and deliver direct, actionable feedback that shifts behavior and builds capability, reinforcing the company's cultural principles.

• Have solid grounding in core HR processes — performance management, org design, talent development — and execute them with rigor
• Are curious about and comfortable using AI tools in your day-to-day work — you don't need to be technical, but you should be able to hold a credible conversation with engineering leaders about what AI transformation means for talent, skill gaps, and team design
• Are data-driven, using both qualitative and quantitative signals to surface insights and support decisions
• Independently partner with business leaders — you don't wait to be told what's needed, and you know when to escalate and when to run with it
• Build genuine trust with managers through candor, follow-through, and sound judgment
• Thrive in fast-paced environments where ownership, agility, and operational discipline are the expectation
• 5–8 years of progressive HRBP or HR adjacent/ generalist experience (e.g., Chief of Staff, Strategy, Consulting), with a track record of supporting senior executives in high-growth or scaling environments
• Model Headway's cultural principles and hold a high bar for performance and accountability