HR Business Partner
Waymo
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
Join our People Team to recruit and support the world's best talent! Our team enables Waymo to achieve our mission by cultivating a culture and environment to unlock our employee's potential. We take our role as champions of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity and stewards of our culture seriously.
This will be a hybrid in office role. You will report to our HR Business Partner Director and be based in Warsaw, Poland.
You will:
- Be the liaison or intermediary between employees and managers, focusing on positive employee relations to advise on policies (including compensation and benefits).
- Anticipate, assess and manage risk, by developing strategies and mitigation plans.
- Build relationships with partners at all levels.
- Oversee and improve hiring processes.
- Partner with leaders and colleagues across all departments to identify and address challenges, promoting a culture of shared responsibility.
You have:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10+ years relevant work experience, including HR experience working in tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe.
- 7+ years of experience doing full life cycle recruiting including tech companies.
- Experience with Eastern European labor laws and market compliance requirements.
- Experience advising on and supporting local disciplinary processes and organizational structures.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in both English and Polish, with a proven ability to connect with and inform individuals from diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding.
- Familiarity with general software engineering hiring profiles.
- Experience with technical terminology and concepts.
- Demonstrated experience with sourcing tools and techniques.
- Proven track record of success in sourcing and engaging passive technical candidates.
- Experience with extracting meaningful insights from data, identifying trends, and translating analysis into actionable recommendations that drive informed decision-making.
- Proven success closing candidates.
- Experience working directly with senior engineering leadership.
We prefer:
- Balanced experience working in a startup and established global company environments in growth mode with high recruiting volume.
- Local expertise (Poland market) to be able to provide expert local advice if and when needed.
- Proven ability to build consensus and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes through collaborative negotiation.
- Work cross-functionally and collaboratively across teams and act as a trusted advisor to leadership at all levels.
- Demonstrated experience influencing through relationships, expertise and data and can manage a complex set of partners.
- Demonstrated comfort level with switching between complex strategy discussions and tactical level work; balance of tailoring solutions and standardization.
- Prior experience with Greenhouse ATS.
- Prior experience with GEM CRM.
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