Business Partner Pleasanton, California,

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years, Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers, Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform.

The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology, big data, machine learning, and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs, retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities, Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3,000 people across North America, Asia and Europe.

This role is on site in our Pleasanton, California office

The HR Business Partner will be responsible for HR support for Tekion's team across product and engineering functions within the organization. The ideal candidate has a passion for building a strong and unique company culture, loves interacting with different types of personalities, is business focused and is comfortable working with budgets and forecasts. You will be instrumental in building out the team in a period of high growth and, in doing so, working cross functionally with senior leadership across the organization.

This position reports to the Director of People Partners.

• Support business leaders in product and engineering and managers to unleash the full potential of their teams through enhancing talent and organizational capability.
• Passionate about a fast-paced environment where business and people decisions are made quickly.
• Ability to drive performance management and accountability via cascading goals structure through an organization.
• Strong advocate for employee engagement measurement and thoughtful program design to measure improvements.
• Desire to drive leadership effectiveness via coaching and development programs including 360's and direct feedback.
• Improve and simplifying processes, tools, communications, and execution of HR Services.
• Drives key people initiatives and executes enterprise-wide HR programs, processes and practices across Tekion.
• Interprets complex information, to offer informative and factual guidance and advice.
• Acts as an employee champion and change agent to proactively improve the work environment, build morale, increase productivity and retention.
• Assess and anticipates HR-related needs by analyzing trends and metrics to develop solutions, programs and policies.
• Ensures regulatory compliance with Federal, State and local legal requirements to reduce legal liability

• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• 3-4 plus years as an People Business Partner preferably in product and engineering
• Ability to build trust and drive team effectiveness.
• Strong organization, project management, and communication skills.
• Keenly attuned to issues of diversity and inclusion.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate a clear and compelling vision and develop effective working relationships.
• A “can do” attitude and the ability work as part of a team.
• Comfort with accountability and ability to absorb feedback and engage in self-improvement.
• A desire to make others successful.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm and optimism.
• Ability to reflect and adjust to a dynamic and rapidly changing environment

• Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for sponsorship.

• Competitive compensation and generous stock options
• 100% employer-paid top-of-the-line medical, dental and vision coverage
• Great benefits including unlimited PTO, parental leave and free snacks and beverages
• The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds from Silicon Valley’s most dominant and successful companies
• Be part of an early stage, hyper-growth start-up with the opportunity to grow and prosper
• Work on the latest and coolest technologies – everything is home-grown and built ground-up
• A dynamic work…