About the role
Work Context
- Location: Vancouver
- Type: Regular Full-time (RFT)
- Status: On-site (5 days a week at Downtown Vancouver studio)
Role Overview
The Senior People Business Partner acts as a trusted advisor, partner, and coach to senior leaders. This role requires navigating ambiguity, operating at high speed, and translating insights into business results.
Key Accountabilities
Strategic Partner
- Proactively partner with key stakeholders to support business needs via agile, human-centered, data-driven, and innovative approaches.
- Drive Strategic Workforce Planning with senior leaders to bridge business strategy, organizational design, headcount/financial planning, and performance optimization.
- Lead organizational transformation through change management best practices.
- Demonstrate leadership in organizational effectiveness, including performance management, coaching, talent assessment, succession planning, and employee engagement.
- Develop people managers by coaching on leadership effectiveness, performance management, and career development to foster a high-performance culture.
- Collaborate with people & talent acquisition teams to initiate, project-manage, and execute program improvements with a focus on change management.
- Drive enhancements in organizational culture and capability.
Expertise on Employee Relations Matters
- Act as a trusted advisor for complex and high-risk employment matters (Canadian and US).
- Guide and support day-to-day employee relations and acute escalations.
- Lead and conduct investigations regarding violations of company standards of conduct.
- Lead and ensure compliance to employment laws for all terminations, determining legal exposure and making recommendations to leadership.
Talent Projects/Programs
- Lead or contribute to company-wide programs and initiatives (e.g., salary review, strategic workforce planning, and organizational change).
- Advocate for and influence new people programs and projects that support business needs.
- Build understanding of project scope, resource availability, road mapping, and timely cross-functional communication.
Mentors and Coaches
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and guidance to People Team members to build a strong learning culture.
- Evolve PBP team operations, driving consistency and increasing impact.
- Provide mentorship, executive coaching, and development to senior leaders.
- Build leadership capabilities across the organization through development plans and high-impact learning opportunities.
Required Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, industrial relations, commerce, or psychology, or completion of a professional development program in human resources administration.
- Experience: 8+ years of Human Resources (HR) experience in a project-based, creative culture.
- Specialized Experience:
- 3+ years of People Business Partnership experience.
- Experience in an organization undergoing cultural and business transformation.
- Experience forging strong partnerships with executive leaders to shape short and long-term People Strategy.
- Experience working with multi-site employees.
- Proven success in change management and leading organizational initiatives.
- Skills:
- Further education in conflict management, coaching, and change management.
- Strong knowledge of Canadian employment law; additional knowledge of U.S. employment law is an asset.
- Clear, confident communication across all levels of the organization.
- Credentials: PHR/SPHR/CPHR Certification or other industry credentials; Certified Coach.
Compensation
- Salary Range: $100,000 - $125,000 per year.
- Salary is determined based on knowledge, skills, and competencies, with room for growth.
Benefits and Perks
- Extended Health Coverage: Effective day one; covers health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services (mental health, physiotherapy, etc.).
- DEIB Benefits: Includes gender-affirming care, fertility care, and hormonal treatments/drugs.
- Flexible Spending Accounts: Flex credit model allows allocation to group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending Account, or Personal Spending Account.
- RRSP Matching: Contribution matching program after 90 days of employment.
- Commuter Benefit: Monthly cash allowance for transit, parking, childcare, or pet care.
- Time Off: Paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, volunteer time off, sick leave, and holiday closures.
- Support Programs: Employee and Family Assistance Program (crisis management, mental health, financial well-being).
- Virtual Health: Access to Telus Virtual Health for remote provider consultations.
- Learning and Growth: Regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
- Workplace: Office locations in Vancouver, Montreal, Los Angeles, and San Francisco with amenities such as rooftop patios.
- Giving Back: One dedicated paid day off annually for volunteering.
About Kabam
Kabam develops multiplayer games with high-quality graphics and next-generation technology. Founded in 2006, it is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Netmarble Games with studios in Canada and the United States. The company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to diversity and an inclusive work environment.