Senior People Partner - Legal, Compliance, & Risk

Mercury Mercury · Fintech · Remote · People Partner

Senior People Partner for Legal, Compliance, & Risk at a fintech company, focusing on team health, manager effectiveness, employee growth, and organizational scale. Responsibilities include strategic HR partnership, advising on people-related matters, monitoring organizational health, and partnering on talent processes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Deeply understand the business as a whole and act as a strategic HR partner to executives and leaders across Legal, Compliance, and Risk.
  2. Provide a consultative approach that combines HR expertise, business savvy, and intuition to diagnose issues and provide creative HR solutions.
  3. Advise leaders and managers on all things people-related, such as performance management & coaching, employee relations, leveling processes and organizational development.
  4. Keep a finger on the pulse of organizational health, and design interventions as you spot potential challenges or areas of risk.
  5. Partner with cross-functional People team colleagues to build impactful programs spanning recruiting, talent management, employee relations, internal mobility, employee engagement.

Skills

Required

  • 7-10+ years of experience in a people-facing HR role
  • at least 2 years as an HRBP
  • skilled in coaching, facilitation, and influencing colleagues at different levels
  • love building thoughtful, innovative people processes that can scale
  • willing to say the hard thing and speak up for what you believe in
  • passionate about tackling problems and solving them in a creative and principled way
  • high level of integrity
  • ability to handle confidential information discreetly
  • passion for working efficiently with great tools
  • suggest new tools where there are opportunities for improvement
  • willing to learn the tools we are currently using (Radford, Workday, Lattice, Notion)

Nice to have

  • bachelor’s degree or something you feel is equivalent
  • spent most of your time at high growth companies

What the JD emphasized

  • high growth companies
  • high level of integrity
  • handle confidential information discreetly