About the Role
This is a high-impact opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of people and business strategy. You’ll partner closely with senior leaders to solve real organizational challenges, elevate leadership capability, strengthen performance, and help scale a high-performing culture. You won’t be stepping into a fully built function; you’ll help define it. We’re looking for someone with the credibility, judgment, and drive to build something meaningful and lasting.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on all people, team, and organizational matters
- Translate business priorities into thoughtful, practical people strategies
- Coach leaders to strengthen performance, leadership effectiveness, and accountability
- Anticipate talent risks, succession gaps, and capability needs before they become issues
- Bring perspective and challenge where needed to raise the leadership bar
- Help design and establish a modern HRBP model at Isaac
- Create scalable frameworks, tools, and rhythms for high-quality business partnering
- Set the standard for what strong HRBP support looks like across the company
- Partner with HR Operations to ensure strategy translates into seamless execution
- Support development of more junior HRBP capability as the team grows
- Drive clarity, consistency, and rigor in performance management
- Drive proactive talent conversations
- Support succession planning and leadership development
- Identify high-impact interventions to improve performance
- Support leaders in designing effective team structures aligned to business goals
- Diagnose team and leadership challenges and implement practical solutions
- Support leaders through periods of ambiguity, transformation, and scale
- Lead complex employee relations matters with integrity and sound judgment
- Balance legal, people, and business considerations thoughtfully
- Coach leaders to manage issues proactively and confidently
- Ensure a fair, high-integrity employee experience in difficult moments
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of progressive HR experience, including strong business partnering exposure
- Proven ability to influence and challenge senior leaders
- Experience building or shaping HR approaches, not just executing existing ones
- Strong business acumen - you connect people strategy to business outcomes
- Confidence operating in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
- Sound judgment in complex or sensitive situations
- Ability to move seamlessly between strategy and execution
Skills
- Business Partnering
- HR Strategy
- Performance Management
- Talent Management
- Succession Planning
- Leadership Development
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Change Management
- Employee Relations
- Coaching
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- CAD 135000 - CAD 150000
Benefits
- 25 days paid vacation
- Comprehensive benefits package fully covered by Isaac
- Opportunity for rapid learning and career growth through training and development programs
- Fun, company-sponsored activities and trips
- Strong work-life balance – no working on weekends
About the Company
- We’re an operational consultancy composed of engineers, innovators, and creators who simplify complexity, realize potential, and uncover opportunities for companies across industries.
- We have been recognized as one of the top 10 Best Places to Work in Canada for the past 7 years, and number 1 in 2022.
- Our culture rewards great work with great experiences, fosters rapid career growth, and shares business success with the team.
- We are recognized as a top workplace in Canada, #1 (2022), #2 (100–999 employees), Top 10 for 8 of the last 9 years by Great Place to Work, and recently named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone Human Capital.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity workplace that doesn’t discriminate in employment on the basis of any protected grounds, including age, ancestry, colour, race, citizenship, ethnic origin, place of origin, creed, disability, family status, marital status (including single status), gender identity, gender expression, sex (including pregnancy and breast feeding), and sexual orientation.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please contact us.
