People Partner, Sales

ABOUT US At Sierra, we’re building a platform to enable every company in the world to build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We partner with industry leaders such SoftBank, Uber, Rivian, CLEAR, and Sutter Health. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and Family. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Employee Relations: Serve as a key resource for employees and managers, providing guidance on HR policies, addressing and resolving employee conflicts, and fostering a positive and productive work environment. - HR Administration: Manage HR systems, maintain accurate employee records, benefits enrollment, and generating HR reports. - Employee Onboarding: Ensure a seamless experience from candidate offer approval to new hire start date. - HR Policy Implementation: Develop and ensure the effective implementation of HR policies and procedures across Sierra, ensuring alignment with legal requirements and company values. - Employee Engagement: Design and implement employee engagement programs to enhance employee satisfaction and foster transparent and effective communication. - Organizational design: (structuring teams for efficiency and scalability, defining roles and responsibilities, aligning talent with business strategy), strategic thinking, coaching, business acumen WHAT YOU’LL BRING - 5+ years of experience in human resources or people operations, ideally in a fast-growing environment supporting Sales organizations. - Demonstrated expertise and understanding of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulation. - Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. - Proactive, innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and strategic impact. - Experience partnering with engineering, product, or other technical teams. EVEN BETTER… - Hands-on experience implementing HR systems and processes in a scaling company. - Exposure to international HR compliance, including global employment laws and cross-border workforce considerations. - Understanding of international compensation structures and total rewards programs. OUR VALUES - Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work. - Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers’ business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it. - Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isn’t right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously self-reflect to continuously self-improve…