Director, People Business Partnership
Imprint· General & Administrative
Hybrid (New York City)$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 4d ago
About the role
Director-level HR partner role focused on building and developing leaders, optimizing organization design, performance management, and people data insights to drive extraordinary growth and retain top talent at Imprint.
Responsibilities
- Shape the decisions that shape the business. Partner with executives as a trusted advisor who knows their teams, plans, and pressure points as well as they do. Anticipate needs before they become problems and challenge people decisions with evidence.
- Make Imprint the home of the best leaders. Hold the bar for management. Define clear expectations for great management and provide coaching, tools, data, and feedback loops.
- Make clarity and feedback an everyday experience. Translate company priorities into clear individual expectations and observable standards of great work; establish a rhythm of check-ins, recognition, and actionable feedback.
- Turn strong performance into extraordinary growth. Provide stretch opportunities, coaching, and career conversations; contribute to career frameworks, succession, and internal mobility.
- Build teams that sustain extraordinary performance. Surface overloaded teams, conflicting priorities, and single points of failure; coach on trade-offs and resource allocation.
- Shape how Imprint is built to grow. Collaborate on team structures, spans and layers, and organizational changes; establish consistent planning for major launches.
- Lead the company through change. Plan and execute major transitions; manage change communications and measure adoption.
- Leverage people data to drive real change. Use exit interviews and workforce data to identify root causes, recommend actions, and measure results.
- Be the standard for fairness. Handle complex employee relations matters with discretion and legal partnership across multiple states.
Qualifications
- 7-10+ years of HR experience, including significant experience partnering with senior executives in a high-growth or scaling company.
- Substantial experience handling employee relations matters and involuntary departures, with ability to coach leaders through difficult conversations.
- Deep expertise in organization design, performance management, and leadership development; strong diagnostic judgment.
- Data-informed approach using quantitative and qualitative evidence to diagnose problems and assess outcomes.
- Track record of improving how managers lead with clear expectations and actionable feedback; demonstrated impact on employees’ experiences.
- Ability to earn credibility with executives and deliver clear, business-grounded advice.
- Self-starter with urgency and initiative; capable of leading through high-growth moments and crises.
- Exceptional emotional intelligence and ability to navigate sensitive conversations with care.
- Comfort with ambiguity and bias toward building useful structure.
- Practical AI fluency and curiosity about automation to improve HR workflows.
Skills
Required:HR leadership and strategyOrganization designPerformance managementEmployee relations and investigationsData-informed decision making
Nice to have:Executive coaching (Nice to Have)Multistate workforce support (Nice to Have)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Leading configured work computers of your choice
- Flexible paid time off
- Fully covered, high-quality healthcare, including dependent coverage
- Additional health coverage includes One Medical and optional FSA
- 20 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregiver and 8 weeks for all new parents
- Access to industry-leading technology across all business units
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Imprint
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Imprint Payments provides the technology powering co-branded credit card programs, with complete control over the experience, including rewards, marketing, and security.
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