Director, People Business Partner

Modern Health 

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. We are the first global mental health solution to offer employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs—all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time. We empower companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves, and believe in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey.

Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and raised more than $170 million in less than two years, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach Unicorn status.

More about our culture and what you can expect when you join the team:

• “It Takes a Village” culture. Modern Health has a unique and unabashed culture centered around high empathy and high accountability - with a drive to win. We are energized by bringing together the best talent in the industry to achieve audacious goals focused on making mental health a strength and priority for all.
• We have an obsession to win. We are highly ambitious and passionate about the work that we do.  We take pride in delivering excellence and our personal best and we continuously innovate to uniquely solve our customers’ needs. 
• We are accountable and can rely on each other. We are a team and hold ourselves and each other accountable. We believe in transparent communication and continuous feedback to foster a culture of trust, reliability, and growth. 
• We demonstrate empathy. We have a supportive and diverse culture where we bolster and uplift each other as we pursue our lofty goals. We encourage selflessness and a willingness to support others, fostering a collaborative and respectful environment. 
• We exhibit a bias towards action. This is a fast-paced environment. We jump into problems and initiate solutions. We empower our people to make decisions and experiment, iterate, and repeat until we get it right.

 

Modern Health is a fully remote workforce and a hyper-growth company that is often recognized for its excellence, winning awards such as World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Top 25 Companies of San Francisco 2023, and 2023 Well-Being Trailblazer Award. To protect our culture and help our team stay connected, we require overlapping hours for everyone. While many roles may function from anywhere in the world—see individual job listing for more—US based team members who live outside the Pacific time zone are expected to work at least six hours between 8 am and 5 pm Pacific time each workday.

We are looking for driven, creative, and passionate individuals to join in our mission. An inclusive and diverse culture are key components of mental well-being in the workplace, and that starts with how we build our own team. If you're excited about a role, we'd love to hear from you!

The Role

As a Director, People Business Partner, you will serve as a strategic thought partner to our executives and leaders. You’ll shape and execute people strategies that enable engagement, strengthen leadership, and enable business impact. You’ll provide counsel on organizational design, performance enablement, talent planning, and leadership development - balancing near-term priorities with long-term organizational health and cultural alignment. You’ll use data-driven insights and judgment to identify trends, influence decisions, and lead high-impact initiatives. 

You will report to our SVP, People & Talent and partner with the People Ops and Talent teams.

This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a strategic thought and business partner to senior leaders, translating business goals into integrated people strategies that drive organizational health, performance, and scalability at Modern Health.
• Design and execute progressive talent strategies for your client groups, including performance enablement, talent reviews, succession planning, and leadership development to strengthen engagement, development, and raise the bar.
• Coach and develop leaders to build high-performing, inclusive teams — recognizing and rewarding top performance, addressing underperformance, and elevating leadership excellence aligned with Modern Health’s values.
• Lead organizational design and change efforts, partnering with leaders to build scalable structures and support smooth transitions through periods of growth and transformation.
• Use data and insights to identify trends, diagnose root causes, and drive measurable improvements in team health, productivity, and employee experience.
• Drive complex, cross-functional people initiatives end-to-end, managing scoping, planning, execution, and continuous improvement of core people processes (e.g., compensation, performance management, talent development, employee relations, change management, organizational design).
• Champion culture and employee experience, ensuring fairness, inclusion, and consistency in decision-making, surfacing patterns in employee sentiment, and proactively strengthening engagement and trust.
• Be responsible for overall program management for people team initiatives and roadmap
• Collaborate with other People Team functions (People Ops, Recruiting) and key cross-functional stakeholders to inform the design and implementation of strategic people programs and initiatives
• Act as a culture ambassador, fostering equity, diversity and inclusion, and belonging. Partner with and support our ERG’s.
• Use good judgment and utilize both qualitative and quantitative data to inform key business and people decisions
• Address, investigate and resolve employee relations issues
• Uphold and promote Modern Health’s values

Who You Are

• 12+ years of People/HR experience, with at least 4+ years of HRBP experience partnering directly with Executive and leaders.
• HRBP Experience partnering with Sales, Go to Market or Engineering teams is heavily preferred in this role.
• 2+ years experience in a People leadership role, ideally in  healthcare, tech and high-growth or startup environments. 
• Experience with organizational and cultural transformation
• Strong program management acumen/skills
• Ability to strike a balance between strategic partnership-building and getting things done
• Comfortable utilizing qualitative and quantitative approaches to problem solving and root cause analysis to tell a story and translate it into actionable strategy
• Excellent judgment and problem solving capabilities; as well as ability to make pragmatic and thoughtful decisions 
• Deep sense of empathy and understanding for the needs of diverse groups of people
• Expertise in building trusting relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders (i.e., Finance, Legal) 
• An advocate for others, speaking up even when it’s difficult, and seeing others accomplish their goals
• Organizational, facilitation, and presentation skills
• Have a passion for seeing others grow through coaching, mentoring, and career development
• Ability to travel and work in office as needed
• Candidates working in Rocky Mtn or Pacific time zones are strongly preferred for this role.

 

We’re looking for more growth-minded and collaborative people to be a part of our journey in destigmatizing mental health care and providing access to all.  If you’re ready to give 100% in helping us achieve our mission - we’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting.  

Modern Health is a primarily distributed (remote) company, headquartered in San Francisco.

Benefits

Fundamentals:

• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance 
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
• Flexible Time Off 
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days

 

Family Support:

• Parental Leave Policy 
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter

Professional Development:

• Professional Development Stipend

Financial Wellness:

• 401k
• Financial Planning Benefit through Origin

But wait there’s more…! 

• Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being 
• New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
• ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
• Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement

Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Information

Please refer to the ranges below to find the starting annual pay range for individuals applying to work remotely from the following locations for this role.

• Zone 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Metro
• Zone 2: All other California locations and Seattle, WA
• Zone 3: All other New York locations, All other Washington locations, Washington DC, Austin,TX, CT, IL, MA, NH, NJ, OR, RI, VT
• Zone 4: All other Texas locations, AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Ranges are not necessarily indicative of the associated starting pay range in other locations. Full-time employees are also eligible for Modern Health's equity program and incredible benefits package. See our Careers page for more information.

Depending on the scope of the role, some ranges are indicative of On Target Earnings (OTE) and includes both base pay and commission at 100% achievement of established targets.

Zone 1

$182,800—$215,000 USD

Zone 2

$164,520—$193,500 USD

Zone 3

$164,520—$193,500 USD

Zone 4

$146,240—$172,000 USD

Below, we are asking you to complete identity information for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While we are required by law to ask these questions in the format provided by the EEOC, at Modern Health we know that gender is not binary, and we recognize that these categories do not reflect our employees' full range of identities.