People Partner

Join Normal as a founding People Partner, where you will play a crucial role in achieving business goals by building effective teams and developing talent. You will partner with leaders and employees across various teams, establish the People Partner function, and provide strategic guidance on talent, organizational change, and team capabilities. Additionally, you will coach and develop managers, guide performance and development, improve team health, and advise on employee relations and change.

• Establish the People Partner function at Normal, balancing opportunities to strengthen performance and development with the need to address people challenges and risks early.
• Partner strategically with leaders to understand business priorities, anticipate people needs, and advise on talent, organizational change, and the capabilities their teams need as the company grows.
• Guide performance and development by supporting managers through performance reviews, helping them assess performance, and turning feedback into development plans.

• Sound judgment in employee relations, including fact-finding, confidentiality and knowing when to involve People leadership or counsel
• Experience using employee feedback and people data to recommend a change and assess whether it helped
• Experience supporting employees and managers across multiple countries; you know when to draw on local expertise
• Experience coaching managers through feedback, performance and development
• Experience across early-stage startups and larger companies
• Experience advising leaders as a People Partner, HRBP or in a comparable role within a tech or hardware company
• Experience building practical People tools or delivering program components
• Clear, candid communication, with examples of building trust and influencing leaders through difficult decisions or disagreement
• Experience using Rippling, Ashby, Lattice, Deel, Notion, Slack
• An HR or project management certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR or PMP
• Experience supporting research or hardware teams, with an understanding of how their work shapes team structure, performance and development
• Experience supporting reductions in force, setting up or international entity arrangements, and PEO setups