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About the Role

Success Academy is seeking a visionary, highly strategic, and battle-tested HR leader to join our People team as the Lead, People Partner. In this role, you will lead the talent strategy, organizational design, and change management initiatives for the Success Academy Network Office. You will own programs, drive continuous improvement, design with scalability in mind, and ensure our culture remains healthy, robust, and fiercely aligned with our mission.

Responsibilities

Directly manage and coach a team of approximately 4 People professionals.
Own team members' career development, drive continuous performance improvement, and foster deep team engagement.
Set high standards for team work products and celebrate contributions.
Act as the primary architect for organizational change management.
Design and innovate with scalability and excellence, driving the rollout of network-wide transformations.
Model and champion a healthy, robust feedback culture, addressing conflict directly and prioritizing ethics.
Ensure people strategies are output and data-driven.
Evaluate workflows to eliminate redundant or inefficient practices.
Use predictive analytics to diagnose organizational health.
Promote a culture of accountability and ownership.
Lead by example in speed and communication, ensuring teams are fast and over-communicate.
Respond to communications within 24 hours.

Requirements

8 to 10+ years of progressive HR experience.
At least 4+ years in a dedicated strategic HRBP or People Partner leadership role supporting complex, high-growth, or transforming environments.
A track record of directly managing and developing a team of HR professionals (ideally 3+ years managing a team of approximately 4 or more, including other managers/senior contributors).
Proven track record of successfully guiding teams through massive organizational changes with courage, empathy, and high professional standards.
Act with high integrity, proactively address gaps, and refuse to make others scramble on your behalf.
Excellent capabilities moving effortlessly from big-picture strategy to detailed operational execution, backed by data-backed problem-solving.
Expertly manages complex stakeholder relationships (up, down, and laterally).
Simplifies structural complexity and ensures seamless cross-collaboration.
Models professional resilience for the entire team.
Proactively mitigates strategic people risks and coaches peers on how to receive and implement tough feedback.
Translates complex technical people challenges into clear, actionable strategic options for non-technical executive leaders.

Skills

Talent Strategy
Organizational Design
Change Management
Team Management
Coaching
Performance Improvement
Team Engagement
Scalability
Feedback Culture
Data-Driven Strategies
Strategic Subtraction
Predictive Analytics
Accountability
Operational Velocity
Proactive Ownership
Executive Leadership Capability
End-to-End Navigation
Learning & Resilience
Domain Mastery

Location

New York
Florida

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8-10+ years of progressive HR experience
4+ years in a strategic HRBP or People Partner leadership role
3+ years managing a team of ~4 or more

Salary/Compensations

$170,000—$190,000 USD

Benefits

Full benefits program
Opportunities for professional growth

About the Company

Success Academy operates a large, fast-growing, and high-performing network of public charter schools in New York and is expanding to Florida.
The organization is dedicated to ensuring children have access to a fun, rigorous, whole-child education regardless of zip code or economic status.
Success Academy seeks to compensate all employees generously.

Equal Opportunity

Success Academy Charter Schools is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We actively seek applications from people of all backgrounds to strengthen our community and the perspectives needed to flourish in a multicultural world.