Senior People Partner (Deployment)

Join Valon, a fast-growing fintech company, as a Senior People Partner. In this hands-on role, you will be a trusted partner to leaders across Deployment and Implementation, helping them make better decisions about organization design, workforce planning, manager effectiveness, performance, talent, and change. You will also create and improve a manager-development program, build a practical learning and development roadmap, and strengthen performance management and talent practices. This role requires 8+ years of experience in an HRBP or People Partner role, strong judgment, and excellent communication skills.

• Be the People Partner for the teams that make Valon work, providing strategic partnership and program building.
• Advise Deployment and Implementation leaders on team structure, role clarity, workforce planning, and talent decisions.
• Create and improve a manager-development program, build a practical learning and development roadmap, and equip managers with tools and training.

• 8+ years of experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or equivalent role, with meaningful experience advising senior leaders and executives
• Mortgage or financial-services experience is helpful, but not required. You do need to learn a complex business quickly and care about how the work gets done
• Hands-on experience independently managing employee-relations matters, including investigations, performance and conduct issues, and manager coaching
• Experience supporting an operationally complex organization such as deployment, implementation, professional services, operations, or a similarly cross-functional environment
• Strong judgment and comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to move from strategy to execution without losing the thread
• Strong written and verbal communication, discretion, and empathy
• A track record of building and shipping people programs, especially manager development, learning and development, performance, talent, or organizational change programs
• Excellent manager-coaching skills and the ability to earn trust while being direct about hard issues
• Willingness to work in person with the team in New York City
• Synthesize people data, employee and manager feedback, and business context to diagnose root causes, recommend targeted action, and measure impact
• An AI-forward mindset and practical fluency with AI tools; able to identify where AI can improve People programs, manager enablement, and team workflows while protecting confidential employee information and keeping human judgment central
• Experience with organization design, workforce planning, performance management, talent reviews, and change management