People Business Partner

Datavant is a rapidly growing health information technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data to improve patient outcomes. Datavant works to reduce the friction of data sharing across the healthcare industry by building technology that protects the privacy of patients while supporting the linkage of patient health records across datasets.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. Read more about our culture and benefits here!

Datavant is looking for a strategic People Business Partner who is driven, creative and an empathic thinker who holds themselves and their colleagues accountable to bold goals. The ideal candidate will be excited to build the next generation of the organization’s talent and support our transformation and post-merger integration.

In this role, you’ll be an integral partner and coach for our leaders to build high-performance, growth-oriented teams that achieve business objectives and organizational goals. You will wear multiple hats, but ultimately this role is about problem-solving sensitive and sometimes ambiguous organizational challenges with the right mix of strategy and empathy.

You will:

• Partner and collaborate with the leadership team and employees to provide guidance on employee-related and organizational matters. Communicate effectively at all levels across the organization.
• Act as an advocate for business strategy, culture, and values, demonstrating enthusiasm for assessing the current status quo within the business unit. Play a key role in developing and influencing solutions that drive results and foster continuous improvement.
• Monitor the organizational culture and identify areas of celebration and concern based on factual information. Lead focus groups to understand the pulse of the organization.
• Execute strategies, initiatives, and projects aligned with business objectives. Collaborate closely with stakeholders to achieve desired results.
• Provide day-to-day guidance to leaders and employees, including coaching, counseling, career development, investigations, and disciplinary actions.
• Analyze trends and metrics in collaboration with the HR team and business unit leaders. Develop solutions, programs, and policies based on insights.
• Serve as a trusted thought partner to business leaders on all things People strategy. This People leader will be the go-to coach on puzzles ranging from organizational design and succession planning to guiding leaders through conflict resolution.
• Successfully partner with teams to blend strategy, change management, and effective program development that aligns with Datavant’s growth plans.
• Lead change in the face of organizational hypergrowth including reorganizations, remote rewiring, cultural integration post-merger and acquisition.
• Ability to work in dynamic environments including previous experience working in similar agile environments and staying up on cutting-edge trends in the People industry.
• Provide day-to-day performance management and organizational effectiveness guidance to managers so they can build high performance teams with inclusive cultures and clear expectations.
• Work closely with leadership, management, and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
• Provide guidance and interpretation of existing company policies and administer core processes like retention agreements and investigations.
• Ability to identify talent gaps and develop and mentor future leaders.
• Serve as a role-model of the behaviors and culture of mutual respect, bias toward action, and world-class follow-through.
• Bring operational excellence including the ability to drive, deliver and improve upon strong People processes. Comfortable operating on a tactical and strategic level.

What you will bring to the table:

• Passion for people, commitment to inclusion, and a desire to drive company strategy through the People function.
• 7+ years of experience in Human Resources/People function
• Ability to adapt to and lead change with a positive attitude
• Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
• Experience working with a Human Capital Management system; Oracle HR experience is a plus.

Bonus points if:

• You have experience working in the Healthcare Tech space

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices.

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $160,000-$190,000.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will beanonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.) Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.