Principal People Business Partner

The role

At SoFi, our People Business Partners are strategic and trusted advisors to senior leaders, responsible for aligning people strategies with business objectives. In this role, you’ll lead and implement the people strategy for our Independent Risk Management & Compliance team, working directly with SoFi’s Chief Risk Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Your work will empower the business to make smart, data-driven decisions while fostering a high performing culture. This role balances strategic influence with hands-on execution, operating as a thought partner to executives and a coach to leaders.

What you’ll do:

• Be a Strategic Partner: Serve as a trusted advisor to Risk and Compliance leaders, shaping and executing people strategies that align with business goals to enable high performing and engaged teams.


• Design and Deliver Impactful People Solutions: Diagnose root cause organizational and talent challenges, develop scalable and innovative solutions, and lead execution to drive sustainable business outcomes.


• Coach and Advise Senior Leaders: Provide executive-level coaching to leaders on leadership effectiveness, performance, team dynamics, and change management.


• Lead Change and Transformation Initiatives: Address highly ambiguous organizational challenges and drive large-scale initiatives to shape the future of the organization, ensuring clear communication and leader readiness.


• Leverages Data for Results: Use people analytics and business data to inform decision-making, anticipate future organizational needs, identify trends and risks, and proactively improve organizational health and performance. 


• Ensure Compliance and Support: Balance employee and business needs by providing expert guidance on employment practices, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of legal requirements and ensuring a fair, compliant, and supportive workplace.


• Execute with excellence: You make it easy for the business to work with the people team, simplifying programs, weaving the people strategy throughout multiple touchpoints to drive intended business outcomes through people programs with tailored business knowledge.


• Enable and Develop High-Performing HR Talent: Partner with and mentor People Business Partners, supporting their professional growth, capability development, and effectiveness as strategic advisors.


• Collaborate across the People Team: Work closely with People Team Centers of Excellence and HR Business Partners to design and deliver integrated people programs that drive measurable impact for the business.

What you’ll need:

• Strategic and Hands-On Expertise: Proven ability to balance big-picture thinking with hands-on execution, including progressive HR experience in dynamic environments.


• Influential Advisor: Trusted sounding board for executives, shaping leadership decisions through strong influence and executive presence, while also developing senior leaders.


• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Strong capability to leverage people analytics and business data to identify trends, assess risk, inform decisions, and drive meaningful organizational change.


• HR Knowledge and Expertise: Strong understanding of key HR domains such as compensation, performance management, employee engagement, employee relations, talent management, and inclusive culture.


• Influence and Relationship Building: Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, adapt messaging to diverse audiences, and influence outcomes across the organization.


• Clarity in Ambiguity: Effectively navigates complexity to drive aligned, focused action. Adaptable and resilient, quickly adjusting priorities and recommendations based on new information.

Nice to have:

• Experience in a banking or tech company 


• Workday experience