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We’re a digital marketing agency built to drive meaningful impact across the entire customer journey, blending media, creative, analytics, influencer, and retail strategies into performance-driven campaigns.\nSome clients partner with us through long-term agency relationships. Others tap into specialized solutions-like Donut Studios, our in-house creative studio for platform-native and short-form content, or Acorn Creator Suite, our influencer marketing solution built for retail impact. While each solution brings its own focus and flavor, they’re all part of how we deliver for our clients, together, as one team.\nWe’re a collaborative group of strategists, creatives, analysts, and makers who are all in on helping brands-and each other-thrive. We work hard, stay humble, and build with purpose.\nWHAT YOU'LL DO \nLead Our People Partnership Strategy\nLead and develop our HR Business Partner function, ensuring our People Partners operate as trusted, proactive advisors who understand the business and help leaders make strong decisions about their teams.\nYou’ll manage and coach a team of HR Business Partners, set the strategy and expectations for how we partner with the business, and help elevate the function from solving individual people challenges to identifying patterns, anticipating needs, and shaping broader organizational strategy.\nShape How We Design Roles & Organizations\nPartner with senior leaders on organizational design, job design, and workforce strategy. You’ll help us answer questions like: What capabilities do we need? How should teams be structured? Where should accountability sit? What does meaningful career progression look like?\nYou’ll own and evolve frameworks around job structure, role clarity, leveling, career paths, and organizational design, creating greater consistency in how we build teams across New Engen.\nDrive Workforce & Talent Planning\nLead our approach to workforce and talent planning, partnering with leaders to understand where the business is headed and what talent, capabilities, and organizational structures we’ll need to get there.\nYou’ll help connect workforce planning, performance, succession, development, retention, and hiring into a more cohesive talent strategy.\nBuild Scalable Talent Practices\nOwn and evolve company-wide talent practices, including performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, and manager effectiveness.\nRather than simply administering programs, you’ll continually evaluate whether our People practices are helping the business make better talent decisions and evolve them as our organization changes.\nBe a Strategic Partner to Senior Leadership\nServe as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on complex organizational and talent decisions.\nYou’ll bring together business context, people data, organizational insights, and strong judgment to help leaders navigate change, build effective teams, develop talent, and solve organizational challenges.\nYou’ll also serve as a senior escalation point for complex or high-impact employee matters, partnering closely with our HR Business Partners and other members of the People team.\nLead Company-Wide People Initiatives\nPartner closely with the Director of People to identify and lead strategic People initiatives that support New Engen’s broader business priorities.\nYou’ll take complex or ambiguous organizational challenges and turn them into clear strategies, frameworks, and programs that can scale across the company.\nThis could include work across organizational effectiveness, career architecture, leadership development, workforce strategy, performance, talent mobility, change management, and other evolving business needs.\nConnect People Strategy Across the Function\nWork closely with our People Operations to ensure our talent strategies connect effectively with compensation, benefits, HR systems, policies, and People operations.\nYou’ll help ensure that the employee experience feels cohesive even when different areas of the People team own different parts of it.\nWHAT YOU BRING\n8+ years of progressive HR experience, with significant experience in an HR Business Partner, People Partner, People Strategy, Talent, or organizational effectiveness role\nExperience managing and developing HR Business Partners or other experienced People professionals\nDemonstrated experience partnering with senior and executive leaders on complex organizational and talent decisions\nStrong experience with organizational design, workforce planning, job design, job architecture, or career frameworks\nExperience designing or leading company-wide talent programs such as performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, or leadership development\nStrong business acumen and the ability to connect People strategy to business priorities and outcomes\nAbility to move comfortably between high-level strategy and practical execution\nStrong coaching and influencing skills, including the ability to challenge leaders thoughtfully and navigate competing perspectives\nComfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure where a clear playbook may not yet exist\nStrong analytical instincts and the ability to use people data and business context to identify trends and inform decisions\nExperience leading organizational change or other complex, cross-functional initiatives\nExperience in an agency, professional services, technology, or similarly fast-moving and matrixed organization is a plus\nTalent Acquisition or recruiting leadership experience is a plus, but not required\nBachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field preferred; advanced degree or HR certification is a plus\nLOCATION\nThis is a hybrid role based in our Seattle office. We believe this role is most effective with regular in-person partnership and collaboration with leaders and the broader New Engen team.\nPERKS & BENEFITS\nMedical, Dental, Vision, Short/Long-Term Disability, Life/AD&D\n401k - Employer match\nHSA - Employer contributes\nFlexible Vacation & PTO plan\nPaid Maternity / Paternity\nPaid Holidays\nHybrid work schedule\nLaid back office environment\nThe coolest team ;)\nFun company events & off-sites\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $170,000 annually\nCompensation for each opportunity is determined based on the applicable labor market, the scope and structure of the role or engagement, and the individual’s qualifications and experience.\nNew Engen is proud to have offices in Seattle, New York, and Northwest Arkansas, each one anchoring teams that drive creativity, collaboration, and culture. But great work isn’t limited to those zip codes. We also support a distributed team of remote employees across the country, giving people the flexibility to do their best work wherever they are.\nWe currently hire full-time employees in the following states: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin\nLet’s Build What’s Next Together - If you’re passionate about media and eager to make a meaningful impact with a team that’s all in, we’d love to hear from you.\nImportant Notice About Job Openings:\nPlease be aware of fraudulent job postings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers from suspicious sources. These attempts are often designed to steal your personal information or trick you into paying fees for recruitment or training services.\nNew Engen does NOT charge any application, processing, or training fees at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process.\nAll legitimate job openings will be posted directly on our careers page. Communication about these roles will come exclusively from New Engen Recruitment through our ATS, Greenhouse. 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