GAQ326R187

As a Databricks People Generalist, you will play a critical role in supporting our managers across the organization. You’ll be responsible for delivering thoughtful people solutions that enable strong leadership, high performance, and an inclusive culture. You will empower managers to confidently navigate every stage of the employee experience by simplifying access to resources and providing seamless case management support. You'll partner with key stakeholders to ensure our people practices align with company values and our processes are simplified and optimized for manager performance and experience.

Responsibilities:

• Manager Coaching & Consultation: You'll partner with managers to navigate the full employee lifecycle, with a particular focus on the end-to-end performance management process. You will provide expert coaching and consultation on topics like development, engagement, feedback, team dynamics, and challenging situations. Additionally, you will guide managers through key employee events such as internal mobility and exit interviews, and partner closely with People Business Partners to support ad hoc business needs like mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations.
• Manager Service Catalog Evolution: By partnering with People and Tech groups, you will identify operational efficiencies and leverage technology and AI to provide managers with timely insights and streamlined people processes. Your efforts will evolve the manager service catalog through shared services and automation, ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience. This will include maximizing manager performance and optimizing decision-making by providing relevant data, and creating a systematic knowledge hub for continuous learning and collaboration.
• People Team Program Delivery & Liaison. Support the successful delivery and impact of key People Team programs and initiatives, including performance review processes, employee engagement surveys, and regional or business unit specific programs (such as talent reviews, retention strategies and career development initiatives). Serve as a liaison between the business and People Team COEs. Articulate business needs back to the central teams to ensure centralized programs and policies are built-in support of the business.
• Crisis Management, Incident Response & Escalations. Provide guidance, consultation, and end-to-end support for sensitive, complex, or high-risk situations.

Qualifications:

• 5+ yrs of HR experience that shows proven success working with people managers, including managing complex cases across the employee lifecycle. In-depth knowledge of Human Resources practices and legal requirements in multiple geographies
• A passion for leveraging technology and AI to solve problems, with a product-oriented mindset and a deep curiosity for experimentation. You're experienced in collaboratively designing, automating, and optimizing scalable people processes to drive consistency and efficiency.
• Able to balance planning and adaptability to drive effective change within a fast-paced organization during a period of hyper-growth
• Competency in understanding, interpreting, and communicating procedures, policies, information, ideas, and instructions through strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong judgment in decision-making and problem-solving through ambiguous situations. Ability to analyze and interpret data to identify insights that drive action

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks. 

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