What are the responsibilities and job description for the People Partner position at Symmetry?
Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
About The Role
As Symmetry’s People Partner, you will develop and implement people strategies and programs to drive business outcomes, employee growth, and high engagement. Symmetry is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where change and growth are a constant. You will be challenged to develop, refine, and improve processes and practices, skilled at motivating and mentoring others, and adept at building strong relationships with leaders and employees from across the business. Recognized as an HR thought leader, you will simultaneously be integral to setting strategic business and people priorities with a hands-on approach to executing.
About The Team
Gusto’s People team is growing and scaling with the company! As our business scales and becomes more complex, we need to ensure that our strategies for engagement with our employees are positive, values-driven, compliant, and driving business outcomes. This People Partner role is 100% dedicated to the Symmetry team, while integrated into the broader Gusto People Team for resources, support, and partnership with other People team members.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
Symmetry has a physical office space in Scottsdale. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
When approved to work from a location other than the office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Working at Symmetry
Being happy at a job goes beyond just doing the work. Where you choose to spend 40 hours a week should be a place that challenges you professionally and aligns with your personal goals and well-being. We truly love what we do, and our customers love what we produce. Our family-owned and -operated business is collaborative, fun, and friendly. We offer the opportunity to work with all kinds of positions across the company, from the CEO to support to sales and everything in between.
Recently, Symmetry became part of Gusto. More than 400,000 businesses use Gusto’s people platform to hire, pay, insure, and support their team–from modern payroll and benefits to distributed work services and international contractor support to expert HR. Together, Symmetry and Gusto are pushing the entire industry forward by helping growing businesses access tools and services that for so long have only been available to larger corporations.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home with us.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Our company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our company is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
We take security and protection of your personal information very seriously. Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer.
About Our Products
Our products make sure millions of paychecks are right, no matter where people live or work in the U.S. We simplify the payroll process with accurate and dependable payroll withholding tax solutions. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, like Walmart and Southwest Airlines, and leading payroll service providers, including ADP and Paychex. With a 95% customer retention rate, our products always have to be top-of-the-line, and so do our employees.
Symmetry is also the company behind the popular website PaycheckCity.com, which helps millions of Americans better understand their paychecks every month.
Symmetry is the payroll infrastructure for software & payroll platforms powering the paychecks of over 64 million workers each year. Our fully integrated suite of payroll tax APIs and software tools allows companies to solve tax compliance issues and build applications across the entirety of the payroll process.
About The Role
As Symmetry’s People Partner, you will develop and implement people strategies and programs to drive business outcomes, employee growth, and high engagement. Symmetry is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where change and growth are a constant. You will be challenged to develop, refine, and improve processes and practices, skilled at motivating and mentoring others, and adept at building strong relationships with leaders and employees from across the business. Recognized as an HR thought leader, you will simultaneously be integral to setting strategic business and people priorities with a hands-on approach to executing.
About The Team
Gusto’s People team is growing and scaling with the company! As our business scales and becomes more complex, we need to ensure that our strategies for engagement with our employees are positive, values-driven, compliant, and driving business outcomes. This People Partner role is 100% dedicated to the Symmetry team, while integrated into the broader Gusto People Team for resources, support, and partnership with other People team members.
Here’s What You’ll Do Day-to-day
- Lead Symmetry to achieve its People objectives, including attracting, hiring and onboarding great talent, developing and retaining Symmies, and achieving our goals around the full stack employee lifecycle.
- Influence business and talent initiatives that support our short and long-term business goals, including driving practices that enable high performance and operational excellence.
- Initiate and maintain effective communications with leadership and employees; provide coaching and guidance on matters related to performance management, offer feedback on style and behaviors to improve employee productivity and engagement.
- Engage in strategic workforce planning by assessing organizational capabilities; identify competency and talent gaps, ensure development of people resources; and build succession plans.
- Build strong partnerships across the People team roles and functions (Invite, Talent Development, Compensation and Benefits) as well as operate as part of a larger People Partner team to create a consistent employee experience.
- Identify and translate current and future business needs into a comprehensive People/Talent Plan.
- Provide organizational development support through interventions such as organization design, development solutions, leadership coaching, and proactive change management.
- 7 years of HR experience as a People Partner (HR Business Partner) and/or HR Generalist across various industries and scales, or progressively senior roles in the People function with a proven ability to craft, deliver, and execute strategic plans.
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen with the ability to design and align People initiatives to business objectives, translating strategy into actionable plans.
- Proven experience working with C-level executives and ability to build strong relationships and trust across the organization, powered by exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of clearly and concisely conveying information to employees at all levels.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities, demonstrating urgency and adaptability to changing business needs.
- Significant experience with workforce analytics, using data and reporting to drive strategic decisions.
- Excellent change management skills with a proven track record of developing and leading organizational change initiatives that deliver measurable business results.
- Demonstrated agility and ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced, and dynamic environments.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle issues ethically and with integrity.
Symmetry has a physical office space in Scottsdale. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role).
When approved to work from a location other than the office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.
Working at Symmetry
Being happy at a job goes beyond just doing the work. Where you choose to spend 40 hours a week should be a place that challenges you professionally and aligns with your personal goals and well-being. We truly love what we do, and our customers love what we produce. Our family-owned and -operated business is collaborative, fun, and friendly. We offer the opportunity to work with all kinds of positions across the company, from the CEO to support to sales and everything in between.
Recently, Symmetry became part of Gusto. More than 400,000 businesses use Gusto’s people platform to hire, pay, insure, and support their team–from modern payroll and benefits to distributed work services and international contractor support to expert HR. Together, Symmetry and Gusto are pushing the entire industry forward by helping growing businesses access tools and services that for so long have only been available to larger corporations.
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home with us.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Our company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Our company is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. We want to see our candidates perform to the best of their ability. If you require a medical or religious accommodation at any time throughout your candidate journey, please fill out this form and a member of our team will get in touch with you.
We take security and protection of your personal information very seriously. Please review our Fraudulent Activity Disclaimer.
About Our Products
Our products make sure millions of paychecks are right, no matter where people live or work in the U.S. We simplify the payroll process with accurate and dependable payroll withholding tax solutions. Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, like Walmart and Southwest Airlines, and leading payroll service providers, including ADP and Paychex. With a 95% customer retention rate, our products always have to be top-of-the-line, and so do our employees.
Symmetry is also the company behind the popular website PaycheckCity.com, which helps millions of Americans better understand their paychecks every month.
Salary : $147,000 - $183,000
