About the Role
As Decagon grows from 400 to 1,000+ employees, we are seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to serve as a trusted advisor to leaders across our Customer and Sales organizations. This is a foundational role where you'll provide hands-on partnership to executives and managers while building out the HRBP function for scale. You'll help anticipate organizational needs, shape leadership effectiveness, and ensure our people strategy supports Decagon's rapid SaaS growth, with particular depth in the mechanics of revenue-generating teams. You'll also establish the frameworks, playbooks, and practices that will become the backbone of our HRBP team as we scale globally.
Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders across Customer and Sales orgs (Sales, Customer Success, Implementation).
- Partner with executives on org design, workforce planning, territory/coverage models, and team effectiveness.
- Partner with Finance and RevOps/Sales Ops on headcount planning, sales compensation design, and comp cycle execution for GTM orgs.
- Build the playbooks and frameworks — onboarding, ramp, performance calibration, comp cycles — tailored to the pace and structure of revenue-generating teams.
- Provide coaching to leaders and managers on performance, feedback, and people leadership, including sitting in on difficult conversations and providing immediate, actionable feedback.
- Coach frontline and second-line sales/CS managers on inspection rigor and differentiating performance in a quota-driven environment.
- Drive consistent and fair performance management, promotions, and career development processes.
- Use people and business data — attrition, ramp, pipeline, productivity — to proactively flag talent and retention risk before it becomes a business problem.
- Serve as a trusted advisor on complex employee relations matters within Customer and Sales orgs, balancing fairness, business need, and compliance.
- Build a culture of trust and transparency by advising leaders on communication, recognition, and engagement strategies.
- Collaborate with People Ops, People COEs, and Talent Acquisition to ensure seamless onboarding, engagement, and employee experience.
- Own change management initiatives, guiding teams through periods of transformation and growth.
- Define and implement the HRBP operating model, setting the foundation for a growing HRBP team.
- Serve as a cultural ambassador, ensuring our values are embedded in everyday leadership and decision-making.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in HR, with a strong track record as an HRBP or People Partner in high-growth SaaS or tech companies, ideally supporting Sales, Customer Success, or other revenue-generating orgs.
- Experience advising executive and senior leaders across multiple functions.
- Deep fluency in GTM/Customer org dynamics: quota-carrying performance management, ramp and productivity curves, incentive comp structures, and account/territory coverage models.
- Expertise in org design, change management, workforce planning, and succession planning.
- Strong understanding of performance management, employee relations, compensation, and engagement practices.
- Demonstrated ability to scale HRBP or People Partner functions from early stages into mature teams.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to build trust at all levels of the company.
- Comfortable operating in both strategic and hands-on capacities in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
Skills
- Organizational design
- Workforce planning
- Territory/coverage models
- Team effectiveness
- Headcount planning
- Sales compensation design
- Comp cycle execution
- Performance calibration
- Performance management
- Feedback
- People leadership
- Coaching
- Inspection rigor
- Differentiating performance
- Promotions
- Career development
- Data analysis
- Talent risk identification
- Retention risk identification
- Employee relations
- Compliance
- Communication strategies
- Recognition strategies
- Engagement strategies
- Change management
- HRBP operating model definition
- Cultural ambassadorship
- Interpersonal skills
- Strategic thinking
- Hands-on execution
Location
- In-office
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $190k - $240k + Equity
Benefits
- Take what you need vacation policy
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
- Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
- Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension)
- Parental Leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Daily lunches and snacks in the office
About the Company
- Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences.
- Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel.
- We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships.
- We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others.
- We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity.
- Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team.
