About the Role
You will operate as a trusted strategic partner to NAMER Sales, Marketing, and Customer leadership, advising on organizational design, team structure, and performance challenges. You will independently own people initiatives end-to-end within Go-To-Market (GTM), applying HR expertise and GTM knowledge to define strategic approaches.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end people partnership for our NAMER go-to-market function, advising Sales, Marketing, and Customer leaders on org design, team structure, performance coaching, and leadership effectiveness.
- Partner closely with Total Rewards, People Ops, and Talent Acquisition to execute GTM talent strategy and ensure alignment across the broader People function.
- Lead people initiatives within GTM, including career framework rollout support and cross-functional talent programs, from design through execution.
- Coach and develop managers on core people leadership skills: performance management, career development, feedback, and team building.
- Bring GTM functional context into broader People programs, contributing domain expertise that helps those programs land well for Sales, Marketing, and Customer teams.
- Navigate complex employee relations matters within GTM with sound judgment, appropriate confidentiality, and a clear framework for risk and resolution.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on GTM hiring strategy, leveling calibration, and candidate experience.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience as an HR Business Partner supporting go-to-market organizations at a high-growth technology company, with a track record of independently owning projects end to end.
- Foundational knowledge of GTM practices and operations — comfortable engaging with performance metrics, quota setting, pipeline mechanics, and how sales/marketing teams measure success.
- Experience leading people initiatives in ambiguous environments — able to define an approach where no clear precedent exists, rather than needing one handed to them.
- Strong org design instincts, with experience advising leaders on headcount planning, team structure, and leveling.
- Credibility with sales audiences — genuine fluency in how sales teams are built and operate, and the ability to earn leaders' trust because of it.
- Comfort operating at both strategic and ground level — able to shape a people approach and then get into the details of a specific coaching situation.
- Sound judgment on complex, sensitive employee matters, including knowing when to escalate and how to balance legal, business, and human considerations.
- Experience building or significantly scaling a people partnership model at a company growing through a major inflection point (e.g. Series C through IPO).
Skills
- HR domain expertise
- GTM knowledge
- Strategic thinking
- Operational depth
- Judgment
- Follow-through
- Influence
- Performance management
- Career development
- Feedback
- Team building
- Employee relations
- Hiring strategy
- Leveling calibration
- Candidate experience
- Org design
- Headcount planning
- Team structure
- Leveling
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- Health, vision & dental coverage
- Catered lunches & dinners for TO employees
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment plus home office budget
About the Company
- Zip is the AI platform for enterprise procurement — built for humans and agents working together. By orchestrating procurement across teams, tools, and suppliers with the help of AI agents, companies can secure the resources they need to innovate faster than ever before.
- The world’s most influential enterprises trust Zip, including T-Mobile, OpenAI, AMD, Mars, Dollar Tree, and more. Together they’ve saved over $8 billion and processed over $500 billion in spend.
- Zip’s team includes product leaders from Apple, Airbnb, and Meta, as well as former procurement leaders from United Health, Sanofi, MGM Resorts, Discover, and NASA.
- Backed by Adams Street, Alkeon, BOND, CRV, DST, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator, Zip has raised $371 million, most recently at a $2.2 billion valuation and has been recognized by Forbes Fintech 50, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Best in Business, and LinkedIn Top Startups.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workspace where everyone (regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and more) feels like they belong.
