Senior People Business Partner

7 days ago


Palo Alto, United States Guardant Health Full time

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext, Guardant360 Response, and GuardantOMNI tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

About the Role:

Guardant Health People Business Partners are responsible for partnering with leaders and their leadership teams to develop and implement people and culture strategies to drive business results. As thought partners, trusted advisors, change agents, consultants and thought partners on topics related to talent within the business. Working closely within the People Team to perform their role and responsibilities, the People Business Partner role models collaboration with centers of excellence such as Employee Experience, Total Rewards, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, People Operations and Employee Relations.

This Senior People Business Partner role is the ideal opportunity for someone who has extensive HR functional knowledge and thrives in managing multiple strategic people initiatives and different interactions with business leaders. Plans and executes flawlessly on people-related activities (ex: performance management cycles, employee engagement surveys, etc.).

This role is based in our headquarters office, Palo Alto, California, and requires in-office attendance three (3) days per week (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  1. Establishes and maintains relationships with leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategy and execution.
  2. Role models our values and leadership principles to support our organizational culture.
  3. Develops a deep understanding of the business to appropriately guide and influence leaders on their talent agenda.
  4. Develops well-thought through change management and communication plans and demonstrates end-to-end thinking.
  5. Applies expertise in the following areas: organizational design, strategic HR management, workforce planning, employee engagement, performance management, change management, career planning, coaching, analysis of people data, total rewards, learning and development, and recognition programs.
  6. Leverages data and other metrics to proactively identify and present solutions based on business needs. Identifies and surfaces trends through both qualitative and quantitative data to help drive impact in the business.
  7. Partners and drives results alongside other Centers of Excellence in the People Team (i.e., Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Learning & Development) to help the People Team implement solutions that support and scale the business.
Qualifications
  1. BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
  2. 10+ years of HR experience creating measurable impact on a major business unit (preferably in a high-growth company) with at least 5 years of experience as a People Business Partner (preferably supporting C-suite leadership managing G&A functions).
  3. Experience managing change and communications related to organizational design.
  4. Demonstrated experience partnering with Senior Leadership (i.e., Vice President level).
  5. Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business.
  6. Ability to solve challenges and get to the root cause of any issue, no matter how complex. Design and quickly implement solutions that may cut across multiple disciplines.
  7. Experience with influencing, decision making, driving change, etc.
  8. Self-motivated and assertive with the ability to hunt down answers and drive solutions autonomously.
  9. Equally comfortable partnering with employees and leadership and moving regularly between the tactical and strategic priorities.
  10. Excellent written and verbal communication skills - must be an articulate and persuasive communicator.
  11. Displays strong business acumen – sees the big picture and operates with perspective.
Additional Information

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

For positions based in Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $120,800 to $163,100. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to Peopleteam@guardanthealth.com.

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To learn more about the information collected when you apply for a position at Guardant Health, Inc. and how it is used, please review our Privacy Notice for Job Applicants.

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