Senior People Partner

Hi, we're DuckDuckGo, the online protection company and remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, annual revenue now exceeds $100m USD and millions use our browser on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, our search engine, and the latest — Privacy Pro. Our culture of trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management underpins everything we do, where each team member takes full ownership of their projects, from scoping and execution to postmortem. If you're seeking end-to-end ownership of your work — you've come to the right place!
Your Team and Role

In this role, you will leverage your empathy, critical thinking, and wealth of experience to empower individuals and teams across DuckDuckGo to achieve our goals. You'll provide guidance through high-touch performance management, which will require you to constantly learn about new domains in order to provide exceptional support. You'll apply this same quality bar to your support of Functional Teams as they navigate the changes that come with a scaling tech organization.

Our People Ops organization is hands-on and committed to working closely with team members across DuckDuckGo to support and meet the organization's evolving requirements as we scale. You'll provide hands-on HRBP support and advisory to 8-12 functional teams by leading performance improvement processes, investigating team member relations concerns, assessing when teams require additional support to meet the organization's needs, and managing related projects. Recent projects include:

• Analyzing data from the annual engagement survey, developing company communications, and determining next steps

• Restructuring the Functional Lead role, including updating expectations and responsibilities

• Developing and launching relevant metrics for Functional leaders

• Investigating Career Advisor capacity for advisees and piloting an experiment

About You

• 7+ years of People Operations experience working in a fast-paced, tech-driven organization, with experience in HRBP or HR leadership activities, including leadership development, performance management, process development, organizational behavior, workforce planning, employee relations, team member engagement and belonging.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively resolve complex engagement, performance, and employee relations issues with discretion, humanity, and critical thinking.

• Ability to adapt an HR Business Partner mindset to a distributed environment and identify the highest impact ways to partner with our teams.

• Pragmatic and analytical, with a proven track record of creating data-driven projects, process improvements, and substantive change within high-growth organizations.

• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem with all levels of stakeholders.

• Skills to wrangle vague problems, in an ambiguous environment, propose innovative solutions, and execute them independently with a strong focus on metrics.

• Proven conflict resolution skills and keen emotional intelligence.

• Demonstrated excellent use of project management or similar software.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Compensation

$178,500 USD annually and stock options. Compensation is identical within professional levels, regardless of geographic location or team. Compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Our Team Member Support Guide explains how we prioritize your wellbeing including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances. For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it's a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

Please note that:

• You’ll be required to attend meetings on camera via video conferencing

• Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.

• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.

• A successful candidate must pass a background check as a condition of joining the team.

• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

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