People Partner - Austin, United States - Couchbase

Description

Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you'll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.

Couchbase is looking for a well-rounded, strategic People Partner to join our organization. You will Create Value and your impact will Be Valued. We are on a journey to define our future path and build out organization and talent strategies to feed both our employees' and company's future growth. You will assist leaders and employees to implement a global people strategy to support business objectives. This role requires both global and regional experience in a matrixed environment.

As your primary responsibility, you will provide People Partnership to leaders in both Sales and Engineering to deliver talent strategies for the Americas Sales and Global Engineering teams. You will partner with the Global Sales and Engineering People Leaders to deliver talent strategies across these two organizations. You will directly impact the future of the "world class teams" who work at Couchbase and solidify Couchbase's reputation as an "employer of choice." Come help us Make Tomorrow Better Than Today, Starting Now.

Responsibilities

• Counsel and/or coach leaders regarding employee relations
• Partner with our Sr. Associate People Partners to lead investigations into leader/manager/employee complaints or grievances, maintaining confidentiality and ensuring fair and consistent outcomes.
• Leverage data from our engagement, candidate, and exit survey data to drive actions for the organizations you will support.
• Support strategic initiatives for the People Partner team, collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve objectives.
• Partner with our DE&I team on deploying strategic areas for the organization.
• Partner closely with key stakeholders across the People Team (Talent Acquisition, People Partner and People Operations, Talent Development and Total Rewards), Finance and Legal teams to evolve and implement services, processes, and People initiatives.
• Support the People Partner Leaders on the roll out of the annual People & Workplace programs as well as playing a key part in the execution of the Strategic People Roadmap.

Key Behaviors & Deliverables:

• Above all things, we are culture ambassadors and must be willing to lead, learn, and live by example, ensuring that Couchbase culture is paramount in all business and people decisions.
• Partner with Couchbase leadership to build, manage and execute on integrated regional and organizational people strategies.
• Be a trusted advisor on all things people to our leaders.
• Work with all levels of management in an engaging manner to grow our leadership capability.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
• 4-8 years' experience in a People function with increasing levels of seniority and complexity over the length of your career.
• People Partner experience in a global, complex growing technology company.
• Possess strong influencing skills and experience handling sensitive employee matters.
• Structured thinking and possesses sound business judgment and acumen.
• Both strategic, in terms of seeing around corners and planning for the People implications of business growth, as well as operational, willing to roll up sleeves and work with the team in a hands-on way to implement People-related programs.
• The ideal candidate will have experience driving an organization's strategic vision and ability to operationalize and execute against our priorities.
• Proven ability to handle global employee relations matters effectively and confidentially.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Experience working with Sales, Engineering, and Senior leaders at the VP level.
• Highly collaborative
• Solutions oriented, with an ability to work independently and at pace, to effectively resolve challenges in a rapidly scaling, changing environment

The anticipated starting base pay range for this role is listed below. Base salary is not the only component of our competitive total rewards package - you may also be eligible for bonus, commissions, equity, and other benefits as described below. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

Base Pay Range

$120,000—$140,000 USD

Why Couchbase?

Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase's mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:

• Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family
• Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs*
• Financial Planning - RSU equity program*, ESPP program*, Retirement program* and Business Travel Insurance
• Career Growth - Be valued, Create value approach
• Fun Perks - A Monthly Lifestyle Spending Account credit, an ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees.
• And much more

*Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more.

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