Senior People Partner (HRBP)

About Float

Float is one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and Top Startups (2024 & 2023), serving Canadian businesses with our innovative smart corporate card, bill pay, and spend management solution. Float’s team is customer-obsessed, passionate, vibrant, and entrepreneurial, and includes executives from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and many other incredible tech companies!

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts, feedback, and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision making decentralized so that all team members contribute.

Our product

Float is Canada’s first modern financial institution built to help Canadian businesses grow. We’re making finance more accessible and saving businesses time and money, while empowering them with capital and disrupting the multi-trillion dollar global B2B finance industry. Backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, including Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we’re looking for pioneers to help us achieve our vision.

About the Senior People Partner role

As Float’s Senior People Partner the expectations will be high. You are an integral member of the Float team and your expertise & confidence will be relied upon to provide advice and counsel managers and employees on a broad range of People programs and practices. Reporting into Float’s SVP, People & Talent, this is an exciting opportunity to work on high-impact bespoke People initiatives and projects in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, non-traditional environment. 

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Supporting our People Leaders - Act as an advisor, coach & partner to our Float People Leaders on all People related matters. Align People strategies with business objectives to support the company’s growth and success. Provide insights and recommendations on organizational design, workforce planning, and talent management.
• Employee Relations - Foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can bring their unique perspectives and talents and are empowered to do their best work. Address and resolve complex employee relations issues with sensitivity and fairness. Serve as a trusted resource for employees at all levels, providing guidance on HR policies and procedures.
• Talent Development - Design and implement development programs and initiatives. Support managers in identifying and developing high-potential employees. Facilitate performance management processes, including goal setting, feedback, and performance reviews.
• Change Management - Lead People initiatives and change management efforts to support organizational transformation. Communicate changes effectively across the organization to ensure smooth transitions.
• Total Rewards - Partner with the SVP, People & Talent to design and implement and maintain competitive total rewards programs. Provide guidance on compensation strategies and practices to ensure equity and alignment with business goals.
• HR Analytics and Reporting - Utilize data and analytics to inform decision-making and measure the effectiveness of People programs.  Prepare and present reports on key HR metrics.
• Special Projects & more - as required.

Requirements

You’ll be great in this role if:

• You’ve got the experience. You’re a high performing People professional with 7-10+ years of end-to-end HR/People experience in a high growth startup environment. You’ve been a part of building amazing People programs and scaling a company and want to build again. You have employee relations experience and experience supporting coaching and counseling, employees at all levels of an organization.
• You’re a trusted partner. People feel comfortable coming to you. You are a true partner to the business and are relied upon to answer employee questions. You provide amazing employee experiences by forming genuine and value-add partnerships throughout the company. You also have the highest level of discretion and integrity.
• You’re driven and action oriented. You have an extremely strong work ethic and approach each situation with energy and enthusiasm. You strive to excel in every aspect of your work. You approach every challenge, committed and determined to achieve or exceed expectations and act with a sense of urgency.
• You’ve built high performance teams. You design, uphold, and foster high performance teams and cultures.  You have a high bar and high expectations and lead by example when it comes to performance management and talent calibration.
• You’re a strong communicator. You draw people in with your compelling verbal and written communication. You are an intent listener, incredibly insightful and can articulate those hard to pinpoint details that others miss. You are also comfortable sharing your ideas, suggestions and feedback openly and are a huge fan of radical candour.
• You’re a critical thinker. You are able to take in a lot of information and have excellent judgment. You can connect the dots and help people understand the impact of various decisions. You aren’t a box checker and go beyond the standard questions to get a greater understanding.
• You have superior attention to detail. You pride yourself on thoroughness and accuracy. You are a stickler for detail, especially when it comes to anything legal or data related.
• You’re an owner. You love a challenge, and take great satisfaction in tackling them head on. You are highly accountable and deliver on your commitments.  You are also comfortable making independent decisions and following your instincts to be able to move quickly.
• You love optimization. Inefficiency and waste frustrates you and you leverage your tech savviness to streamline whatever you can. 
  

This role won’t be a fit if:

-You don’t love coming into an office IRL (2 days/week)

-You haven’t helped scale a company before

-You don’t have a strong work ethic

-You aren’t able to deal with ambiguity

-You don’t have a high sense of urgency and drive

-You are not a self-starter or resourceful

-You get easily frustrated

-You don’t thrive in a high performance culture

-You aren’t ridiculously organized and efficient

-You aren’t a problem solver

-You aren’t extremely detail oriented

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.

Benefits

... and Perks of working at Float:

• Competitive compensation & total rewards
• Flexible work hours and time off‍ when you need to recharge
• Small team = lots of autonomy to make an impact
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team
• A personal Float card with a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to you
• A dog-friendly office
• Being able to say you helped make Float a career-defining period of our employee’s lives - one that is challenging, rewarding, impactful, fulfilling and meaningful!