Senior People Partner aligning people initiatives with Upvest's business growth strategies. Managing performance appraisal systems and leading organizational development in a high - growth fintech environment.
About the role
- Sr Mgr, People Programs managing performance reviews, succession planning, and organization design at fintech company. Collaborating across multiple offices to build scalable talent infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Own the end‑to‑end performance review cycle, including timelines, communications, enablement, tools administration, governance, OKR goal setting, mid‑year/annual reviews, calibrations, and translating outcomes into development plans and talent moves.
- Build and maintain a robust succession planning framework by identifying critical roles and talent pools, assessing readiness and bench strength, and creating action plans to close capability gaps and strengthen leadership pipelines.
- Lead high‑potential (HiPo) identification and development by defining criteria/methodologies (e.g., 9‑box, assessments, manager nominations, performance data), and designing programs, mentorship, stretch assignments, and rotations; measure impact with People Analytics.
- Drive organization design and workforce planning through spans‑and‑layers analysis, capability mapping, job architecture alignment, and facilitating org design sessions; propose operating model alternatives and transition plans, and lead change management and communications.
- Enable and coach leaders and managers by building toolkits, training, and guidance for performance, feedback, development planning, and succession; advise on org design decisions, talent moves, and workforce strategies.
- Use data to inform decisions by creating dashboards and KPIs (e.g., performance distribution, mobility, bench strength, diversity representation, time‑to‑ready), running pilots/A/B tests, and executing continuous improvement cycles.
- Lead program management and governance by owning roadmaps, milestones, and cross‑functional coordination to ensure on‑time, high‑quality delivery, and maintaining documentation for repeatable, scalable processes across offices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) required
- 7+ years in Talent Management, Organizational Development, HRBP, or consulting, preferably in high-growth tech/fintech
- Proven experience owning performance cycles, succession planning, HiPo programs, and org design end-to-end
- Experience working across global regions and functions to share best practices and drive consistency.
- Strong facilitation and executive presence; able to influence senior leaders and coach managers
- Data fluency with HRIS and talent tools (e.g., Workday,, Culture Amp) and analytics/visualization tools (e.g., Excel/Sheets, Tableau/Looker)
- Project and change management expertise; comfortable building from scratch and iterating quickly
- Commitment to inclusive, equitable, and transparent talent practices.
Benefits
- healthcare benefits (medical, dental and vision, EAP)
- competitive PTO
- 401k match
- parental leave
- HSA contribution match
- paid subscription to the Calm app
- generous external learning and tuition reimbursement benefits
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