Lead HR Business Partner at Natera

The Lead HR Business Partner serves as a bridge between Senior HR Business Partners and HR leadership, playing a pivotal role in driving HR strategy and execution across the organization. This role acts as a trusted advisor to leadership, and a key driver of workforce planning, organizational design, employee relations, and talent development. As a lead-level position, this role provides enhanced strategic oversight while maintaining hands-on involvement in HRBP responsibilities. The Lead HRBP will partner closely with senior leaders to align people strategies with business objectives, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and agile workforce. Additionally, they will support the development of the HRBP team, strengthening capabilities and ensuring a consistent, high-impact HR approach across the organization. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategic HR Partnership & Business Support • Act as a primary HR partner to senior leaders, providing strategic counsel on workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development. • Guide talent strategies that align with business goals, ensuring leaders have the tools to manage, develop, and retain top talent. • Drive succession planning efforts, identifying and preparing future leaders to ensure business continuity. • Support and mentor HRBPs, providing coaching and guidance to elevate HRBP capabilities and effectiveness. Workforce Planning & Organizational Design • Assess organizational structure, talent gaps, and workforce needs, ensuring optimal alignment with strategic objectives. • Collaborate with leadership on organizational design and workforce optimization, ensuring scalability and efficiency. • Identify redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities to enhance team performance and optimize human capital. Employee Relations & Performance Management • Oversee high-complexity employee relations cases, partnering with leaders to drive fair and legally compliant resolutions. • Implement progressive performance management strategies, ensuring a culture of accountability, development, and continuous improvement. • Provide expert coaching to leaders on effective feedback, performance reviews, and talent management best practices. Engagement, Culture & Leadership Development • Partner with business leaders to foster a culture of inclusion, engagement, and high performance. • Lead efforts to enhance employee experience and engagement strategies, ensuring alignment with company values and business priorities. • Collaborate with Learning & Development to enhance leadership development programs, addressing key capability gaps within teams. Change Management & Organizational Development • Serve as a change leader, supporting major business transformations such as restructuring, M&As, and process improvements. • Work closely with leadership to reinforce cultural alignment and manage organizational change initiatives. HR Data & Analytics • Utilize HR metrics and analytics to inform decision-making, track progress on key initiatives, and provide actionable insights to leadership. • Monitor trends in attrition, engagement, and workforce planning, proactively addressing potential challenges. Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree. • 10+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 5+ years as an HR Business Partner in a fast-paced, high-growth environment (preferably in biotech, life sciences, or technology). • Experience supporting senior leadership teams and implementing strategic HR initiatives. • Strong expertise in organizational design, workforce planning, and talent development. • Demonstrated ability to manage complex employee relations issues with sound judgment and discretion. • Strong understanding of HR analytics and data-driven decision-making. • Ability to influence and coach senior leaders, fostering strong business partnerships. • Ability to travel ~15% of the time. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities • Strategic thinker with a strong ability to execute HR initiatives that drive business impact. • Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. • Strong leadership, coaching, and mentoring abilities, with a focus on developing HRBPs. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.Austin, TX$131,900—$164,900 USDOUR OPPORTUNITY Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives. The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management. WHAT WE OFFER Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program! For more information, visit www.natera.com. Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws. If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. Link: [Upgrade to PRO to see link] Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes. For more information: - BBB announcement on job scams - FBI Cyber Crime resource page