Senior People Partner

About this role

<h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the role </strong></span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Chime is looking for a Senior People Partner to collaborate closely with our high performing business functions to help shape the future of our business. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In this role, you’ll be a strategic advisor and trusted partner to technical leaders, aligning business objectives with innovative People solutions. You’ll wear many hats—leadership coach, org designer, workforce planner, talent steward, and program champion— while cultivating a high-performing, engaged, and inclusive culture that enables our teams to build industry-leading products for everyday people.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you’re energized by helping technical organizations grow sustainably and thrive in a fast-paced, iterative environment where people come first, we’d love to meet you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The base salary offered for this role and level of experience will begin at $130,000 and up to $180,000. Full-time employees are also eligible for a bonus, competitive equity package, and benefits. The actual base salary offered may be higher, depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.  </span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>In this role, you can expect to</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with business leaders and fellow People Partners to develop and implement people strategies that align with business objectives, drive talent growth, retention, engagement, and development.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provide thought partnership on workforce planning, including team structure, skills evolution, and hiring prioritization.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Anticipate challenges and opportunities by helping leaders ‘see around corners’, offering proactive guidance and insights that inform smarter organizational and talent decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Coach and empower technical managers by providing guidance on leadership challenges, performance management, team dynamics, and navigating complex people challenges across the employee lifecycle.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work cross-functionally to plan and effectively communicate organizational changes, advocating for the needs of your business groups while facilitating effective training and messaging.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with People Operations and People Partners to align our culture with reward strategies, ensuring fairness, internal equity and employee satisfaction.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Champion and nurture a strong, inclusive culture within business teams, acting as a trusted advisor and advocate for employees to ensure voices are heard and respected.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Advocate for the needs, perspectives, and challenges of each team by partnering with People Centers of Excellence (COEs) and enablement functions for tailored solutions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Play an active role in influencing business outcomes through company-wide people initiatives.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lead complex employee relations cases with the support of our Legal & Compliance partners to ensure timely, fair and compliant solutions that align with our company values and policies.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>To thrive in this role, you have</strong></span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">6+ years of HR business partner experience, including direct support of technical organizations (Engineering, Product, Data, IT, and/or Design).</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Expertise in building trusting relationships with leaders at all levels; with the ability to strike a balance between strategic partnership-building and getting things…