As a People Business Partner at Kabam, you will support organizational goals through relationship-building, change management expertise, and drive people-related projects while offering advice on employment law.
At Kabam, we’re constantly raising the bar of excellence in free-to-play gaming. We hire for passion and diversity so that we can triumph in our collective skill. Our teams are made up of a fusion of personalities and interests bound together by a collaborative nature, fun-loving culture, and a drive to do what it takes to make great games. And this is where you come in…
Do you excel at building trusted relationships and helping businesses achieve their goals? We're seeking a People Business Partner to join our People team. This role is crucial for providing expert advice to leaders and employees across our organization, driving organizational change, and fostering a healthy team culture. You'll use your expertise in change management and agility to support our fast-moving, creative environment.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Be the go-to person for our teams, acting as a trusted partner and primary point of contact for a portfolio of leaders in the U.S. and Canada.
- Proactively team up with key stakeholders to tackle business needs and support their goals using agile, human-centered, and data-driven methods.
- Use your expertise in Canadian and U.S. employment law to be a trusted advisor and resolve employee relations issues.
- Create, drive and implement people-related projects and programs that align with your stakeholders' business roadmaps.
- Be a catalyst for change, driving initiatives that enhance our culture and build a healthy team environment.
- Support the talent acquisition team with projects and initiatives, which may include aspects of contractor recruitment.
- Guide and mentor team members, helping us build a vibrant learning culture.
- Coach and guide leaders, building up leadership capabilities in Kabam’s leaders
- Navigate a fast-paced, creative, and technical environment with curiosity, openness, and agility.
To be successful in this role, your background includes:
- Over 5 years of experience in Human Resources, with at least 2 years as a People Business Partner.
- Experience in a project-based, creative culture.
- Demonstrated experience in building trusting relationships with stakeholders and leaders.
- Proven experience in change management.
- The ability to partner strategically with department leaders to help drive business strategy and operational goals.
- Strong, clear, and professional written and verbal communication skills.
- A strong knowledge of Canadian and US employment law.
- A post-secondary degree in HR or a related field.
Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:
- Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, and disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits include commuter benefits, additional healthcare spending, and dependent care.
- 401K Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program for their 401K.
- PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, unlimited paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
- Learning and growth: we encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and a stipend to a LifeBalanced account, which can be applied to learning as well as other personal expenses.
- Pay transparency: we share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion.
- Cool spaces: our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s trying new local eats while enjoying the view in downtown SF or DTLA - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
- Giving back: Kabammers have a dedicated paid day off every year to volunteer to a cause close to their hearts. Some teams even band together for group volunteer days off-site!
- Hybrid Work: Kabammers typically spend at least two days per week in office. We believe in blending in-office collaboration with the freedom of remote work, and want everyone to have flexibility while fostering strong connections.
Excited by this opportunity? Kabam is dedicated to growing our diverse and inclusive workforce, so if your past experience doesn’t perfectly match the listed requirements we encourage you to apply anyways - you could be a great fit for this or other positions.
We invite you to apply now and start the conversation with us. Together, we can create and support some of the best games ever made and entertain the world!
About Kabam
Kabam is a world leader in developing entertaining, immersive, and highly social multiplayer games, bringing high-quality graphics, next-generation technology, and revolutionary gameplay to players around the world.
Kabam’s games, Marvel Contest of Champions, Shop Titans, and more have generated hundreds of millions of downloads and have received multiple awards including Apple’s Editor’s Choice and Google Play’s Best Game of the Year.
Founded in 2006, Kabam has studios and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Charlottetown in Canada, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the United States, and in Seoul, South Korea. Kabam is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games.
Kabam is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and equitable workplace, and inclusive environment for all existing and potential employees. Employment decisions are based on candidate qualifications and business need, not race, color, ancestry, place of origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, political belief, religion, creed, marital or family status, medical condition, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, prior criminal conviction or any other protected class in accordance with federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Kabam Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, California, United States
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