People & Culture Manager

Job Type: Full-Time |
Location: Fort Worth, TX |
Department: People & Culture|
Reporting to: VP, People, Culture & Community |
Work Location Type: #hybrid

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC.

With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

The People & Culture Manager is the day-to-day P&C partner for a defined client group – a data center region or site, a technology business unit or a corporate function – within one of IREN's People Relations verticals. Reporting to the Director, People Relations, the role works directly with the leaders of that group to deliver the full partnering agenda as IREN grows toward a 2,000+ workforce: employee relations, performance and talent conversations, workforce planning and structure for the group, the deployment of IREN's people programs, and the people side of the operational and organizational change those leaders are driving.

Under the P&C operating model the People & Culture Manager deploys rather than designs. Global programs – performance, talent review and succession, engagement, leadership development, recognition – are designed by Talent & People Programs; pay, levelling and job architecture are owned by Total Rewards, which cross-checks offers, re-levels and organizational changes before they are made; transactions, HiBob and the learning platform are run by People Operations;

and hiring is delivered by the vertical's Talent Acquisition team. The Manager brings those services together for their leaders, adapts them to a shift-based site, a remote engineering team or a corporate function, and feeds what they learn back to the function.

The role is accountable for the health of its client group – fair and consistent treatment of employees, sound and well-documented decisions, managers who are capable and supported, and a workforce that is planned and ready for growth. It is the primary escalation point for employee relations in its group and works through the Director, People Relations on the structure, workforce plan and judgment calls that carry wider risk.

• Act as the trusted P&C partner to the leaders of the client group – a visible, accessible presence on site or in the team – advising on people matters and ensuring the P&C function delivers for them as one service.
• Own employee relations for the group: coach managers through performance, conduct, attendance and accommodation matters; lead investigations and grievance handling with a fair, consistent and well-documented approach; manage terminations and separations with Legal where required; and ensure employment law and policy compliance in the jurisdiction(s) served.
• Partner with leaders on workforce planning and structure for the group – headcount plans, role and team design, spans and layers – within the vertical's workforce plan owned by the Director, People Relations, and route organizational changes and re-levels through the Total Rewards cross-check before they are committed.
• Deploy IREN's people programs in the group: performance management (check-ins, year-end assessment) and the talent review for the group and adapt global programs to the realities of the workforce while preserving the global…