Principal People Partner

Join Pie Insurance as a Principal People Partner, where you will drive people and organizational strategies that empower our leaders and teams to achieve their highest-impact goals. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, align people strategies with business objectives, lead change management initiatives, and support talent development and performance enablement. This role offers flexible work options, fully paid health care, equity and 401k contributions, generous PTO, parental and caregiver leave, and more.

• Lead senior management in translating business strategy into a talent strategy that embeds and reinforces our culture and drives success across our business.
• Align people strategies with business objectives, partnering with leaders to understand their goals and provide guidance on organizational design and development, all aspects of talent management, workforce planning and management, performance development, total rewards, and experience and benchmarking across the team member lifecycle.
• Lead and support organizational change initiatives, including org design, leadership transitions, reporting structure changes, and People & Talent programs.

• 8+ years in an HR Business Partner/People Partner role or equivalent partnering with multiple executives
• Engineering, Product Development, Technology
• High school diploma or equivalent required; Bachelor’s degree is preferred
• Thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced, highly dynamic virtual environments requiring a thoughtful balance between autonomy and a high collaboration
• Insurance Underwriting, Claims, Customer Service / Support and/or Operations
• 12+ years of progressive HR experience, related business industry experience, or leading teams with HR-related functions, or a combination of related experience/education
• Must be proficient with HRIS (Workday preferred) and collaboration tools (Slack, Google Suite)
• Sales, Marketing and/or Business Development inclusive of knowledge of incentive plan design
• Prior experience supporting one or more of the following functional areas:
• Communication: Writes and speaks with accuracy, clarity and influence with audiences within and outside of functional area at all levels, including the CEO, and across different formats and channels
• Demonstrates grit by persevering through obstacles
• Creates clear and highly compelling narratives that influence strategy
• Collaboration & Influence: Creates needs-based solutions across team boundaries that serve organizational/functional interests first, consistently putting broader org/function needs ahead of team or personal interests
• Deeply understands operations within their functional domain and understands operations within their business domain
• Lead with first team commitment to the function balanced with service to the organization
• Growth Mindset: Models growth mindset and accurate self assessment while remaining genuinely open to feedback
• Drives operational frameworks to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Develops resilience strategies for self and work and others within their sphere of influence
• Recognizes how market and industry shifts impact medium term strategy, both functionally and within the business
• Demonstrates humility by learning from diverse sources, creating a culture where admitting gaps and mistakes is productive and safe
• Maintains composure and clarity in the most challenging organizational challenges and stress
• Builds high candor, high trust, high context relationships across all boundaries within the organization, maximizing operational effectiveness, even with competing priorities and resource constraints
• Ownership: Leads with a one-team, extreme ownership mindset, We Are The They
• Critical Thinking: Leverages first principles, integrative thinking, and Pie's Collaboration and Decision-Making Framework (CDMF) for designing the data-driven, maximum win/win solutions, considering all stakeholder needs, impacts and interdependencies
• Makes thoughtful requests solving for intersection of stakeholder needs, avoiding demands and building alignment across competing priorities
• Execution: Manages multiple initiatives delivering high impact results, acting as force multiplier through effective delegation, empowerment, and building infrastructure to support scale
• Demonstrates flexibility by proactively changing approaches when strategies and tactics aren’t working and adapts readily to changing circumstances
• Strategy: Develops 6-month to multi-year strategies integrated with functional and organizational objectives
• Communicates directly and respectfully and actively minimizing triangulation and gossip
• Takes ownership of complex challenges beyond immediate scope, demonstrating broader functional and organizational thinking
• Functions as a stabilizing influence during high-stakes situations
• Can pull self up to see forest from the trees
• Identifies opportunities for improving performance and consistently overcomes significant obstacles
• Addresses systemic causes of conflict while effectively resolving disagreements
• Creates clear strategic narratives that connect their work to functional priorities
• Experience with Greenhouse and Culture Amp preferred