About This Role
This People Partner role is key to connecting the leadership team with the employee experience, ensuring that as the company scales, it does so intentionally. You will partner directly with managers and leaders across the company to drive talent decisions, navigate employee relations, and build programs and processes that support a high-performing, fast-moving team. This is a hands-on role where you will shift between coaching managers and building new frameworks to contribute to the company's culture.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to align people strategy with business priorities and headcount plans
- Serve as the go-to advisor for managers on employee relations matters, performance management, and coaching
- Identify trends in employee engagement, retention, and team health, and recommend data-informed solutions
- Support and help manage leave administration, workplace accommodations, and compliance with federal and multi-state employment laws
- Drive talent development initiatives, including career pathing, manager training, and succession planning
- Partner with recruiting and people ops to ensure a seamless handoff from candidate to new hire, with an onboarding experience that sets people up for success
- Help shape and maintain the company's culture as it scales, keeping its guiding principles at the center of how it operates
- Manage and resolve sensitive employee situations with discretion, sound judgment, and speed
Requirements
- 5+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 2 years operating as an HRBP/People Partner or in a generalist role supporting business leaders directly
- Experience at a high-growth startup or technology company; understanding of the pace and ambiguity that comes with scaling
- Strong working knowledge of employment law across multiple U.S. states, with the ability to spot risk and advise practically (or alert legal accordingly)
- Proven ability to build trust with managers and employees at all levels and influence without authority
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to handle sensitive topics with clarity and care
- A bias toward action: you solve problems, not just flag them
Nice to have:
- Experience supporting a distributed or remote-first workforce
- PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification
- Familiarity with modern HRIS and people analytics tools (e.g., JustWorks, Rippling, Lattice, BambooHR, or similar)
- Experience building people programs from the ground up at a company in the 50-200 employee stage
- Background in supporting technical (engineering), go-to-market (sales, CS) and G&A teams
Important Details
- Work format: remote, or hybrid with in-office days on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays if you live within approximately 50 miles of the San Mateo, CA or Provo, UT office
About the Company
GC AI is a legal AI platform for in-house legal teams. More than 1,700 companies use GC AI, including 150+ public companies, 25+ unicorns, and brands such as News Corp, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Snyk, Skims, Liquid Death, Vercel, Zscaler, and TIME. The company has 10x'd revenue in 12 months, raised a $60 million Series B ($555 million valuation), and is growing faster than ever. It is backed by investors including Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel. The company's guiding principles are: 1% better every day, customer obsession, ship today, find a way, care deeply, and own it completely.
