Senior People Business Partner

About AlayaCare At AlayaCare, we’re more than just a fast-growing SaaS company, we’re a team of people passionate about transforming home healthcare. Our cloud-based platform empowers care providers around the world to deliver better outcomes for their clients. With 550+ employees across Canada, the US, Australia, and Brazil, we’re united by a shared mission and a strong culture of transparency, growth, and human connection. Whether you're early in your career or a seasoned expert, AlayaCare offers the opportunity to grow your impact, your skills, and your career. About the Role Reporting to the Senior Manager, People Business Partnership, the Senior People Business Partner serves as a strategic advisor to leaders and the primary People Business Partner for North America’s Revenue org which consists of Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and Professional Services. The role advises leaders on complex employee relations, organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent strategy while helping build high-performing, accountable, and adaptable teams. The Senior People Business Partner also mentors junior members of the PBP team and supports the execution of AlayaCare’s talent, culture, and people priorities. As AlayaCare evolves into an AI-enabled organization with a high bar for talent, the role helps leaders build lean, high-impact teams and models practical, responsible use of AI in everyday People practices. What You’ll Do What great looks like in this role - You own outcomes, not tasks. You act without waiting to be asked and make sound calls that connect to where AlayaCare is going. - You turn complexity into value. Leaders leave a conversation with you with a clear recommendation, not just more analysis. - You hold the bar with care. You coach leaders to set clear expectations, differentiate performance using evidence, and act with fairness and timeliness. - You argue hard, then commit. You challenge leaders directly and respectfully, then fully back the decision once it is made. - You are curious about how AI changes the work. You experiment with new tools without being asked and bring leaders and teammates along. - You adapt quickly when priorities shift, and you treat leaders, employees, and colleagues as your clients. What success looks like in your first year - Leaders in your client group run consistent, evidence-based performance and calibration conversations and rely on you as a trusted advisor. - Complex employee relations matters are handled with sound judgment and the right legal partnership, with no surprises for leadership. - Workforce and talent data are used to guide decisions on structure, capacity, and investment across the Revenue organization. - AI is part of how you and the PBP team work, with visible examples of manual workflows simplified or automated and shared across the team. - The associate People Business Partners you mentor are growing and delivering consistently. What You Bring to the Team AlayaCare's mission is to empower care providers to achieve better health outcomes by delivering transformative technology and data insights. We are driven to enable the care we want our loved ones to receive in the place they call home. You will work with real autonomy, high standards, and colleagues who care about outcomes. We reward impact, not tenure. To help us get to know you, please include a short note with your application: tell us about something you improved, automated, or changed on your own initiative, and what you learned from it. - Act as an advisor to leaders, providing strategic counsel on organizational design, workforce planning, succession planning and talent strategy. - Lead highly complex or sensitive employee relations cases, investigations and organizational risks, partnering with Legal and other stakeholders as required. - Mentor and coach associate People Business Partners, sharing best practices, strengthening consistency across the PBP practice while supporting their professional growth. - Lead or co-lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of organization-wide HR policies, programs, and practices. - Analyze organizational and workforce, talent data and trends, developing proactive strategies and long-term solutions. - Support the execution of AlayaCare’s talent strategy by translating our talent principles into practical approaches to hiring, performance, calibration, development, succession, and workforce planning that strengthen talent density and business outcomes. - Partner with leaders to hold a consistently high bar for performance and talent decisions: coach managers to set clear expectations, differentiate performance using evidence, run rigorous and fair calibration conversations, and act with timeliness, care, and compliance when expectations are not met. - Advise leaders on designing clear roles and lean, high-impact teams, using workforce and business-outcome data to guide decisions on structure, capacity, and investment, and ensuring organizational changes are planned with sound judgment, legal compliance, and care for employees. - Partner with Total Rewards and business leaders so that pay, recognition, and growth opportunities are tied to impact and expectations, and support leaders in communicating people and organizational changes with clarity, consistency, and empathy. - Lead cross-functional People & Culture initiatives and projects with organization-wide impact - Model and champion practical, responsible use of AI across the PBP practice and the business: apply AI tools in day-to-day People work (such as workforce analysis, case preparation, documentation, and communications) and coach leaders and managers to do the same. - Partner with People & Culture and IT, to embed AI-enabled approaches into People practices while upholding guardrails for privacy, confidentiality, fairness, and human judgment in all people decisions. - Support AI adoption as a change leader by helping leaders translate AI expectations into role expectations, team ways of working, capability building, and performance conversations, and by identifying where AI changes how work is organized and which skills teams need next. - Deliver advanced training, coaching and workshops that build manager capability and accountability Champion diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and fairness in talent and people decisions across the organization. Why Join AlayaCare? Work With Purpose At AlayaCare, you’ll help build technology that empowers care providers and improves outcomes for patients and families. Every line of code and every customer interaction contributes to making care more connected, accessible, and human. Grow in a High-Trust Culture We believe in transparency, feedback, and assuming positive intent. Here, you’ll feel safe to share your ideas and career goals, and be supported to achieve them through mentorship, career mobility, and a promote-from-within philosophy. Balance That Works for You We value flexibility and well-being. From “Wellness Fridays” to volunteer time off, to flexible vacation, we make sure you have the space to recharge, contribute to your community, and live your best life. Benefits That Matter - Equity in a well-funded, scaling company. - Comprehensive health benefits, telemedicine, and lifestyle spending accounts. - Parental leave top-up and family support programs. Inclusive by Design We celebrate diverse perspectives and foster belonging through our DEIB initiatives. Employee-led events, summits, and social activities, both in-person and virtual, create meaningful connections across our global teams. Location and Work Model This role is based in Toronto. At AlayaCare, our hybrid model includes 2 set in-office collaboration days/week, and it is expected that team members are present in the office on those days to foster connection, innovation, and teamwork. Ready to Join Us? Apply today and be part of a company that makes a real difference in the future of home and community care. Not the right role for you? Share this posting with someone who might be a great fit. AlayaCare uses AI tools during our hiring process to support fair, consistent, and objective decision-making. Some initial screening steps may be automated to help identify qualified candidates. If your application is declined automatically, you may request a human review. We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone belongs. If you require accommodation during the application process, please reach out to [email protected]. At AlayaCare, we consider a range of factors when determining compensation, including skills, qualifications, experience, and market data. These factors may cause compensation to vary. The expected hiring range is what we reasonably anticipate offering for this position at the time of posting. AlayaCare offers a comprehensive benefits program, which may include medical, dental, wellness, life insurance, equity participation, paid parental leave top up, and paid time off. This expected hiring range applies only to candidates hired to perform work in Ontario. This role represents an existing vacancy at AlayaCare. AlayaCare uses artificial intelligence enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process. All hiring decisions are made by our hiring teams. Expected Hiring Range $100,000—$120,000 CAD