Senior Manager, People Business Partner

SoFi SoFi · Fintech · San Francisco, CA · Human Resources

Senior Manager, People Business Partner at SoFi, a fintech company. This role involves leading and developing HR talent, acting as a strategic partner to business leaders, designing and delivering HR solutions, coaching leaders, leading change initiatives, leveraging data for decision-making, and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate will have people management experience, strategic and hands-on HR expertise, strong influencing and data-driven decision-making skills, and knowledge of key HR domains.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage a team of People Business Partners, supporting their professional growth, capability development, and effectiveness as strategic advisors.
  2. Serve as a trusted advisor to your business leaders, shaping and executing people strategies that align with business goals to enable high performing and engaged teams.
  3. Diagnose root cause organizational and talent challenges, develop scalable and innovative solutions, and lead execution to drive sustainable business outcomes.
  4. Provide executive-level coaching to leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance, team dynamics, and change management.
  5. Address highly ambiguous organizational challenges and drive large-scale initiatives to shape the future of the organization, ensuring clear communication and leader readiness.

Skills

Required

  • People Management Experience
  • Strategic and Hands-On Expertise
  • Influential Advisor
  • Data-Driven Decision-Making
  • HR Knowledge and Expertise
  • Influence and Relationship Management
  • Clarity in Ambiguity

Nice to have

  • Experience in a banking or tech company
  • Workday experience

What the JD emphasized

  • people analytics
  • business data
  • organizational health
  • performance management
  • talent management
  • leadership effectiveness
  • change management
  • people management experience
  • strategic and hands-on expertise
  • data-driven decision-making