Director - People Business Partner

Modern Health · Remote

Company

Modern Health

Location

Remote

Type

Full Time

Job Description

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

  • 2+ years experience in a People leadership role ideally in a health or tech and high-growth company

  • 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

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

$182800—$215000 USD

Zone 2

$164520—$193500 USD

Zone 3

$164520—$193500 USD

Zone 4

$146240—$172000 USD

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Date Posted

03/04/2026

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