Senior People Business Partner

Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. We've pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and have been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today, there are 50,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 5,100 dbt Cloud customers.

As of February 2025, we surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR), scaling from $2M ARR to this milestone in only four years. Simultaneously, we've exceeded the 5,000 customer mark, with 85% year-over-year growth in adoption among Fortune 500 companies. This momentum is fueled by dbt's critical role as the data control plane for enterprise data teams around the world, who rely on the technology to transform data into reliable, actionable business insights. We're rapidly growing and looking for passionate people to join our global team. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values here.

As a Sr. People Business Partner supporting our rapidly growing Customer Experience and Partner organizations, your role is vital to align people strategies with business goals, ensuring the organization is prepared to meet its ever-changing future needs. By closely collaborating with senior leaders and managers, you will be able to develop leaders and teams, drive organizational effectiveness, engage our employees, foster an inclusive culture, and prioritize the highest impact solutions.

This role reports to the Director, People Business Partners and works closely with other functions across the People Team to deliver key talent and people-focused initiatives.

We are at the stage of company growth where this role will spend time daily on both strategic and tactical areas of focus and work. There's opportunity for massive strategic impact in being partnered directly with C- and VP level leaders across the globe, while also rolling up your sleeves and contributing to the programs and processes that maintain and enhance the rhythm of the business. If you're both an advisor and a doer, this is the role for you.

• Serve as a trusted thought partner, consultant, and coach to the Chief Customer Officer and VP Partnerships.
• Be the primary point of contact on all people related matters for team members at all levels in the respective groups you support.
• Collaborate and coordinate with leaders, finance, and talent acquisition teams on workforce planning, focusing on talent development, retention, and growth opportunities.
• Execute key People processes, including compensation planning, performance reviews, engagement surveys, and other People programs within designated groups.
• Collaborate with managers to assess employee performance, identify growth opportunities, and recommend appropriate development initiatives.
• Collect and analyze data to deliver insights and drive recommendations that support the business.
• Implement people solutions that meet the needs of the business, such as change management, leadership development, and organizational design initiatives.
• Provide guidance and support to business leaders through organizational changes, growth, challenges, and other key business matters.
• Work with leadership on succession planning, identifying critical roles within the organization and developing strategies to maintain a robust talent pipeline.
• Support or lead special projects, such as process optimization, policy implementation, and facilitating high-performance team workshops.

• 7+ years of HR Business Partner experience, partnering directly with senior leaders
• You've experienced supporting technical teams, support functions, and partnerships, which accelerates your ability to gain trust and establish credibility
• Ability to establish relationships and partnerships at all levels of the organization, including worked with and supported C- and VP level executives
• While not expected to be an expert at statutory requirements of all countries around the world, you have firsthand experience working for a high-growth company during their international expansion phase
• Exhibit strong leadership and influencing skills, and design, implement, and lead change management initiatives
• Proven track record demonstrating agility in an ever changing environment
• Critical thinking skills with creativity and the grit to skillfully problem solve and navigate dynamic, ambiguous situations
• Ability to handle ambiguity with ease
• Superb judgment and integrity, including excellent decision making skills and a sense of urgency
• Ability to work both tactically and strategically to get business needs met
• Attention to detail and the ability to effectively handle multiple priorities, without direct oversight

We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Lab's total rewards during your interview process.

Equity Stake: new hire grant and annual equity refreshes, upon eligibility

Benefits: Unlimited vacation, pension, excellent healthcare, office and cell/internet stipends, and paid parental leave

• Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
• Interview with the Hiring Manager (Manager, People Business Partners)
• Team Interviews with stakeholders on the People Business Partner and Leadership teams
• Final interview with our VP of People

#LI-SW1

At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.

Specifically, we believe that:

• Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various "multi-player" development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language
• Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers
• Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software
• Analytic code itself—not just analytics tools—will increasingly be open source

It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too Today, there are 50,000 teams using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 5,100 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. dbt is synonymous with the practice of analytics engineering, defining an entire industry. We're backed by top investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter.

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We're committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes a diversity of perspectives, people, and backgrounds regardless of race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or any other protected status. We feel strongly that whether or not your experience exactly fits the job description, your passion and skills will stand out and set you apart even if your career has taken some twists and turns. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway Please reach out to us directly at recruiting@dbtlabs.com if you need assistance or an accommodation.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page here.

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. Equity or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.