Director, People Partnering

About the role

This is a new leadership role responsible for partnering with Global Shared Services teams on workforce planning, talent management, and organizational design. You will also build and implement a global framework for managing behavior and performance concerns across the organization. The role requires a strategic partner who can balance high-growth operational needs with the development of robust people standards.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to Global Shared Services leaders on team structure, workforce planning, and talent decisions.
• Lead organizational design and workforce planning for global functions as the organization scales.
• Own talent and succession planning, including identifying flight risks and single points of failure.
• Partner on performance and compensation decisions, including calibration and promotion cases.
• Define and communicate global standards for behavior and underperformance to ensure consistent handling of concerns.
• Build an employment decision framework in partnership with Legal, including a delegated authority matrix.
• Coach HR Managers through complex cases and act as a technical escalation point for global staff issues.

Required skills

• HR business partnering
• Organizational design
• Workforce planning
• Employee relations
• Change management
• Executive coaching
• Performance management

Nice to have

• Sub-Saharan Africa operations
• Workplace investigations
• Manager enablement design

Qualifications

• 7+ years of HR business partner experience with executive and senior leaders
• Experience in a scale-up or major transformation environment
• Experience building employee relations standards or frameworks from scratch
• Experience holding or advising on disciplinary and capability decisions in multiple jurisdictions

About the Company

GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. The organization is recognized as one of Time100’s Most Influential Companies of 2026 and maintains a culture that is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical.