People Partner

Palantir Palantir · Enterprise · Washington, DC · People

This role is for a People Partner at Palantir, focusing on driving business outcomes through workforce effectiveness and engagement. Responsibilities include talent development, performance management, feedback facilitation, and advising leaders on people strategies. The role requires strategic and tactical work, program design, and data-driven insights for employee growth and retention. It involves coaching individuals and resolving employee issues.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop deep relationships and build trust with key business owners, becoming a strategic thought partner on people-related strategies and engagements.
  2. Build, execute, and regularly assess people processes and programs –catered to topics like feedback, growth, training, leadership development– that drive a high-performance culture
  3. Engage on issues of organizational design, process, and workflows in order to help teams operate more effectively.
  4. Utilize people metrics to drive key insights and decisions around the growth and retention of employees.
  5. Coach Palantirians (both individual contributors and leads), functioning as an advocate and resource to resolving key employee issues including performance, interpersonal conflicts, grievances and complex investigations.

Skills

Required

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • High level of emotional intelligence
  • Ability to work on open-ended problems and run them to completion
  • Data-driven and detail-oriented

Nice to have

  • Proactive
  • Can operate autonomously
  • Thrive in ambiguity

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years relevant industry experience
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure, outcome-oriented environment by demonstrating quick, thoughtful execution.
  • Excels at working on open-ended problems and running them to completion.
  • Ability to spend 4-5 days per week in-office.