Shopify Hiring for Senior Manager, HR Business Partners (Remote, Americas) Job at New York, NY Full Time

Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for everyone with a platform and services that are engineered for reliability, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere. Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.

The Senior Manager, HR Business Partners for North America will support in creating the strategy, environments and practices Shopify needs to best support a successful future, across a subset of our product lines. This role operates in an agile and fast paced environment and will be responsible to provide innovative solutions in the areas of Talent Management, Performance Consulting, and Employee Relations. In partnership with others, this leader will focus on leadership development and employee engagement for a distributed and remote Shopify workforce. This role will be closely aligned with the Talent Leadership team and will report directly to Shaun Cawley (Director, Business Partners).

Role responsibilities:

• Develop an understanding of Shopify’s global priorities in the short and long term, and build and execute on the America’s talent strategy that compliments the global priorities
• Function as a strategic business advisor to the Americas executive and senior leadership
• Influence decision-making with senior leadership across the organization
• In partnership with the specialty teams, and by leveraging your team of Business Partners, enable the implementation and development of innovative people solutions in the areas of talent acquisition, performance management, communications and change leadership, coaching and mentoring leaders on talent reviews, and succession planning
• Ensure that the interests of colleagues and the company are considered in accordance with the applicable government laws and regulations
• Together with the Senior BP leadership team, build an environment where the craft of business partnering is practiced in world-class and innovative ways
• Lead a team of Business Partners across multiple geographies and portfolios. Develop their skills, experience, and career progress
• Contribute to the development and growth of the broader Talent Team through leadership, coaching, and team building
• Ability to connect and create high trust relationships with various stakeholders regardless of location or distance, especially with leadership in the rest of Talent, Finance, and the America’s leadership community
• Possess a track record of strong leadership capability and want to model the behaviors and expectations of our leaders

• You are a proven people leader and love what it means to get results through others
• You have a proven ability to create strategy and vision, as well as manage the execution of work
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and can collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve common organizational objectives
• You navigate decisions through relationship building, strong business acumen, and the ability to balance the two
• You are a strong communicator and a leader capable of working with all levels of people cross-functionally and globally
• Knowledge and understanding of local legislation as it relates to labor laws and Talent matters within the Americas region

Bonus experience:

• Experience working in a high-growth organization looking to scale and build

Additional Information

The posting will close on Thursday, October 6th at 11:59PM EDT.

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet.

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team – so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.