Senior Director, HR Business Partners at SimplePractice

Job description

About Us At SimplePractice, we are improving access to quality care by equipping health and wellness clinicians with all the tools they need to thrive in private practice. More than 250,000 providers trust SimplePractice to build their business through our industry-leading software with powerful tools that simplify every part of practice management. From admin work to clinical care, our suite of innovative solutions work together to reduce administrative burden—empowering solo and small group practitioners to thrive alongside their clients. Award-winning and people-first, SimplePractice is shaping the future of health tech. In 2026, we were recognized by BuiltIn as a Best Remote Company to Work For, Software Guru's Best Places to Code, Becker Healthcare Telehealth Companies to Know, and we won a MedTech Breakthrough Award for Best Practice Management Solution Provider. The Role We're hiring a Sr. Director of HR Business Partners to lead the HRBP function and model great partnership directly with senior leaders. You'll sit on the People Leadership Team, reporting to the Chief People Officer, and partner closely with executive leaders across all business functions and our HR Centers of Excellence — Talent, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Talent Acquisition. This is a player-coach role: you'll partner directly with one or more ELT members and their leadership teams while leading a small team of HRBPs who cover the rest of the business. The mandate is genuine partnership on org design, AI-enabled transformation, talent depth, and workforce planning. Responsibilities Direct business partnership. Translate evolving business priorities into future-ready people strategies. Partner with ELT and their leadership teams on org design, workforce planning, talent, and change management before decisions get made. Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational effectiveness and leadership team dynamics as the business scales. HRBP model and practice standards. Lead and evolve the HRBP model, ensuring alignment to business strategy, growth priorities, and organizational maturity. Define what great partnership looks like across org design, talent reviews, workforce planning, and COE collaboration. Build it into a repeatable, impact-driven model. AI-enabled org transformation. Partner with the CPO to shape the people strategy for SP's AI transformation and own how it lands across your business groups. Work with business leaders to diagnose which roles, team structures, and capabilities need to evolve as AI shifts how work gets done. Help leaders design orgs for AI-native ways of working and manage the change with their teams. Assess AI fluency as a leadership capability in talent reviews. Workforce planning. Build multi-quarter workforce plans connected to business outcomes. Define capability gaps, including AI fluency gaps, and build the plan to close them across build, buy, and borrow options. Use data, analytics, and AI-driven insights to anticipate gaps before they become problems. Talent and succession. Run rigorous talent reviews that produce real outcomes: clear successors, honest calibrations, paths for high-potentials, and decisive action where the bar is not being met. Own ELT and XLT bench-building. Performance and rewards cycles. Partner with Total Rewards and Talent through compensation and performance cycles in a way that protects equity, rewards performance, and gives managers the language to have hard conversations. HRBP team leadership. Lead, coach, and develop the HRBP team. Set the standard, hold the team accountable for delivering at that level, and build consulting, influence, and business acumen capabilities across the function. Desired Skills & Experience Experience 12+ years in HR, with at least 5 years as a senior HRBP or HR leader supporting ELT-level executives in a high-growth SaaS or tech company. A track record of org design and change management work at the ELT-1 level that shaped measurable business outcomes. Direct experience partnering with business leaders through AI-driven org transformation, including workforce redesign, role evolution, and change management as AI shifts how work gets done. Demonstrated ability to assess AI fluency as a leadership and team capability and build it into talent reviews, succession planning, and development plans. Experience leading or developing a team of HRBPs, including performance development of HRBP talent. Experience navigating matrixed, fast-moving environments where the playbook hasn't been written yet. PE-backed experience a plus. BA/BS in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered. Capabilities Business judgment. You read a P&L, understand how SP makes money, and connect people recommendations to business outcomes. Leaders trust your input because it's grounded in their world. Influence at altitude. You push back on ELT members when warranted, deliver hard truths with care, and earn the right to be in the room before decisions get made. Diagnostic instinct. You identify the real problem behind the presenting problem and say so directly. Coach and multiplier. You make the HRBPs around you better. You build team capability, not just individual heroics. AI fluency. You understand how AI is reshaping org design, job architecture, and the nature of work in a SaaS business. You can hold a substantive conversation with Engineering and Product leaders about what AI transformation means for their teams and you stay ahead of it. Data-driven. You use workforce data and people analytics to sharpen your point of view, spot patterns leaders are missing, and challenge your own assumptions. Benefits We offer a competitive benefits program including: Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance 401(k) plan with company match Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays Mental health resources Paid parental leave & Backup Care Tuition reimbursement Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) California Job Applicant Privacy Notice Thank you for your interest in opportunities at SimplePractice LLC (“SimplePractice” or “us” or “we” or “our”). Please note that when you submit your resume or application materials to us for employment purposes, you are subject to the SimplePractice California Job Applicant Privacy Notice . For more information about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@simplepractice.com . Notice to Candidates SimplePractice has been made aware of fraudulent job postings and unaffiliated third parties posing as our recruiting team. We do not have any affiliation or connection to these situations and only post open roles on our official Careers page ( simplepractice.com/careers ) and reputable job boards like our official LinkedIn or Indeed pages. All official SimplePractice recruitment emails will be sent from the domains @simplepractice.com, no-reply@greenhouse.io or no‑reply@linkedin.com email addresses. Examples of fraudulent domains include careers-simplepractice.com, simplepractices.com, and simplepractice.careers. Please note that SimplePractice will never ask candidates or new hires for money or payment of any kind at any stage of the recruitment or onboarding process. Base salary is one component of total compensation. Employees may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commission. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. The amount below represents the expected annual base compensation range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider many factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors. Base Compensation Range $209,000 — $261,000 USD

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Desired Skills & Experience
12+ years in HR, with at least 5 years as a senior HRBP or HR leader supporting ELT-level executives in a high-growth SaaS or tech company.
A track record of org design and change management work at the ELT-1 level that shaped measurable business outcomes.
Direct experience partnering with business leaders through AI-driven org transformation, including workforce redesign, role evolution, and change management as AI shifts how work gets done.
Demonstrated ability to assess AI fluency as a leadership and team capability and build it into talent reviews, succession planning, and development plans.
Experience leading or developing a team of HRBPs, including performance development of HRBP talent.
Experience navigating matrixed, fast-moving environments where the playbook hasn't been written yet.
BA/BS in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field. Equivalent experience considered.
Capabilities
Business judgment. You read a P&L, understand how SP makes money, and connect people recommendations to business outcomes. Leaders trust your input because it's grounded in their world.
Influence at altitude. You push back on ELT members when warranted, deliver hard truths with care, and earn the right to be in the room before decisions get made.
Diagnostic instinct. You identify the real problem behind the presenting problem and say so directly.
Coach and multiplier. You make the HRBPs around you better. You build team capability, not just individual heroics.
Data-driven. You use workforce data and people analytics to sharpen your point of view, spot patterns leaders are missing, and challenge your own assumptions.

Nice-to-haves

PE-backed experience a plus.

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