People Business Partner

Posted Dec 4

Smartcar is on a mission to make it easy for everyone to use the apps and services they love with their car. We build developer-friendly APIs, making it easy for businesses to integrate their products with vehicles of any brand using a single integration.

Founded in 2015, Smartcar has raised $36M from Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, and Energize Capital. We are the leading developer platform for mobility businesses across North America and Europe, serving amazing customers, including brands like Uber, Turo, and more.

Innovative mobility businesses use our API platform to verify mileage, issue digital car keys, manage EV charging schedules, monitor fleets, and much more.

As Smartcar’s People Business Partner, you will be a key component to protecting and scaling Smartcar’s culture and HR processes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own and find ways to improve Smartcar’s onboarding and offboarding experience.
  • Support all of Smartcar’s departments globally on HR best practices.
  • Lead Smartcar’s bi-annual performance review process by training team members and launching the review packets.
  • Assist with compensation planning and benefit enrollment efforts.
  • Collaborate with all departments to support and organize team specific and company wide events.
  • Lead employee morale and engagement initiatives such as celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, surveys, learning and development initiatives and more.
  • Build and create new HR policies and documentation.
  • Own and manage sensitive data and information within Smartcar’s HR tech stack such as Rippling, Lattice and Carta.
  • Gather and analyze people metrics to drive key insights and decisions around morale, growth and retention.
  • Manage inbound employee inquiries about benefits, leaves, policies etc.
  • Identify ways to automate and simplify HR processes.
  • Be a trusted advisor and partner to all employees.
  • Assist with ad hoc HR operations projects.

Who You Are

  • 4+ years of HR generalist experience.
  • Proven experience with leading onboarding, offboarding and performance review efforts.
  • Familiar with HR tools such as Rippling, Workday, Gusto etc.
  • Ability to work independently and take initiative.
  • Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to use independent judgment to make decisions as well as organize and prioritize work.
  • Data-driven and comfortable building cost estimate reports.
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.

Manager

Your Team

Compensation and Benefits Package

  • Base salary determined by years of experience: $90,000 - $120,000.
  • Equity.
  • Remote work within the United States.
  • Health, Dental and Vision covered at 90% across all plans and 80% coverage for dependents.
  • 401K matching at 4%.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Wellness stipend of $50 a month.
  • Cell phone and Internet stipend of $50 a month.
  • $300 yearly learning and development stipend.
  • $350 work-from-home stipend.
  • 8 weeks of 100% paid parental leave with an additional 4 weeks unpaid, 1-week half day ramp back time and a 5 week Factor subscription.
  • 10 days of paid bereavement leave.

Sponsorship

  • We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities or sponsorship transfers for this role.

Recruiter For This Role

Interview Steps

  • Intro Call: 30 minute phone call with Jackie Leary to learn about your background and determine whether your skill set matches the role.
  • Hiring Manager Call: 45 min phone call with Mathilde Patmon to learn more about your background and for you to ask as many questions as you would like about the role.
  • Take-Home Assignment: You will have 3 days to prepare findings and an action plan for fictitious engagement survey results.
  • Take-Home Assignment Review: Once your challenge is complete you will have a 45 min video call with Mathilde Patmon and Sanketh Katta to present your analysis and action plan.
  • Final Stage: This is a 3-part video interview where you will have a 30 minute call to meet 2 members of the recruiting team, a 30 minute behavioral interview with Jim Terheyden and a 30 min project overview with Steven Stone and Mathilde Patmon.

Smartcar is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to reach out, in confidence, to mathilde@smartcar.com with how we can help make your interview process as comfortable as possible and how we can provide reasonable accommodations.