People Partner – HR Business Partner

About the role

The People Partner works closely with team members and leaders to ensure fair, consistent, and high-quality performance management outcomes. This role owns appraisal cycles, handles difficult conversations with compassion, and uses data-driven decision-making across performance, compensation, and people effectiveness.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end annual and bi-annual performance review cycles, including feedback, calibration and final decisions.
• Partner with leadership to ensure performance decisions align with competency frameworks and are fair and consistent.
• Drive competency mapping, talent profiling and succession planning to strengthen team capability.
• Identify high performers and development gaps using performance data and manager feedback.
• Support managers with performance improvement plans, coaching and documentation.
• Serve as a trusted point of contact for employees, ensuring psychological safety and active listening.
• Lead difficult conversations (performance concerns, rating outcomes, role expectations) with empathy and professionalism.
• Coach team leads on feedback delivery and handling behavioral or engagement challenges.
• Support conflict resolution, escalation management while maintaining neutrality and confidentiality.
• Assist compensation benchmarking, internal parity checks, pay-equity analysis and salary review cycles.
• Use HRIS, Power BI, Tableau to automate reporting, generate insights and track key performance and engagement trends.

Required profile

• 3–5 years experience in HR Business Partnering or Compensation & Benefits, preferably in a tech environment.
• Strong command of performance management cycles, calibration and appraisal governance.
• Ability to handle high-stakes conversations with confidence, empathy and clarity.
• Analytical mindset comfortable with trends, segmentation and decision narratives.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influence across team leads, leadership and cross-functional partners.
• High discretion and professionalism in sensitive cases.

Required skills

• HRIS
• Power BI
• Tableau