Senior People Business Partner (12-month Maternity Leave Contract)

Klue People Team is hiring! Do questions like these keep you up at night?How do we build and scale high-performing teams in this evolving tech landscape?How do we support our leaders to develop their teams while driving business results?What does the future of work look like for Klue, and how do we get there?How can we leverage data and AI to make better people decisions?What innovative programs can we implement to maintain our award-winning culture? Are these the kinds of challenges that excite you?❓ Do you have strong opinions on these topics, backed by experience in high-growth companies?Klue needs you.Why are we looking?One of our team members is going on maternity leave, and we're looking for someone to join our team for 12 months while they’re away! This is a full-stack role that will involve both Business Partner and Talent Acquisition responsibilities on the Go-to-Market side of the business. You'll be stepping into a role that touches every part of our business, and you’ll be 1 of 3 people on our small but mighty People Team to support our continued growth.Q: Klue who?We’re Klue, yes, like the board game, but instead of solving murder mysteries, we help teams solve why they're winning and losing and ultimately help them compete better.Klue is a VC-backed, capital-efficient SaaS company. Tiger Global and Salesforce Ventures led our US$62m Series B in the fall of 2021. We’re creating the category of competitive enablement: helping companies understand their market and outmaneuver their competition. We benefit from having an experienced leadership team working alongside a hundred risk-taking builders who elevate every day.We acquired DoubleCheck Research in 2023 and Goldpan.ai in 2025, making us a multi-product organization that is taking on the new competitive landscape of Win-Loss.We’re a 4x Deloitte Technology Fast 50 & Fast 500 winner, ranked one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies by the Globe and Mail, and recipient of both the Startup of the Year and Tech Culture of the Year awards at the Technology Impact Awards.Your Responsibilities:As a Senior People Business Partner at Klue, your responsibilities will encompass a "full-stack" approach, balancing various aspects of people operations:Strategic Business Partnership (40%): You will serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, driving initiatives, and solving complex people challenges. This includes partnering with the Senior Leadership team on workforce planning and organizational design.People Programs & AI Operations (30%): This involves developing and implementing programs, optimizing processes, ensuring compliance, and leading the development and execution of People programs that matter. You will also use data to inform decisions and measure the impact of initiatives.Culture & Employee Experience (15%): You will champion Klue's high-performance culture, drive engagement initiatives, support manager effectiveness, and contribute to making Klue an amazing place to work. This also includes championing change management initiatives.Talent Acquisition (15%): You will attract and hire top talent for the teams you support, including sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, and enabling/supporting hiring teams.Q: Who'd be great in this role? (Your Qualifications)You've got proven experience as a strategic People partner in high-growth tech supporting go-to-market teams (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success)You’ve got experience with hiring top talent in high-growth techYou don’t subscribe to traditional notions of what “human resources” means—you'll bring a people-first, collaborative, consultative, and AI-forward approach to this role.You're both strategic and hands-on - no task is too big or too smallYou're passionate about developing people and building great teamsYou’re curious, quick on your feet, and an engaging conversationalistYou are excited by overcoming gnarly and complex challenges; we’re building a new category and ‘status quo’ won’t cut itYou know how to prioritize, how to spend your time, and where you can add the most valueQ: What is our People Team working on?Scaling our culture through rapid growthOptimizing our overall company efficiency with AIDeveloping our leadership and team capabilitiesHiring top talent into strategic rolesOptimizing our HR tech stack and workflowsBuilding out career frameworks and development pathsDriving engagement and retention initiativesQ: What level of experience are we looking for?Right now we’re looking for an intermediate to senior-level, experienced People Business Partner who has experience in hiring as wellStrong track record in high-growth tech companiesExperience with full spectrum of People and Talent functionsQ: What is our current People tech stack?Sapling for our HRISLattice for performance management, engagement, and analyticsPave for compensationAshby for our Applicant Tracking SystemLinkedIn Recruiter Lite for outreachNotion for our source of truth and day-to-day operationsAccess to multiple LLMs (Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc)Note: We're always open to trying new tools that help us work smarter!Q: Are you HYBRID FRIENDLY ?Yes, we're hybrid. Best of both worlds (remote & in-office)This position can be based out of Toronto or VancouverYou will be in the office at least 2 days per week.Contract Details:12-month maternity leave coverage, full-time positionCompetitive salaryTime off. Take what you need. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. Vacation usually falls into 3 categories: recharging, life-event, & keeping a work-life balance. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. You need to take at least two weeks off every year. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.Benefits start on day one!Direct access to our leadership team, including our CEOBe part of a high performing People team who knows how to celebrate their success!⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️Lastly, we take potential into consideration. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted in lieu of the specifics listed above. If you know you have what it takes, even if that’s different from what we’ve described, be sure to explain why in your application. Reach out and let’s see if there is a home here for you now or in the future.We’ve made a commitment to support and contribute to a diverse environment; on our teams and in our community. We’re early in our journey; we've started employee led resource groups, committed to Pay Up For Progress, and use success profiles for roles instead of 'years of experience'. We continue to scale our efforts as Klue grows. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and have dedicated that commitment to our current and future #kluecrew. During the interview process, please let us know if there is anything we need to make more accessible or accommodate to support you to be successful.All interviews will be conducted via video calls. We work in a hybrid model of WFH (remote) and in-office. We’re excited to meet you and in the meantime, get to know us: Klue Blog Goldpan.ai Acquisition (2025)✅✅ Win-Loss Acquisition (2023) ️ Series A (2020) Series B (2021) Culture, culture, culture! Winning as Women & Competitive Enablement Show Glassdoor About Us Twitter Instagram☕️ LinkedIn Wellfound (AngelList)

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