About Mixpanel
Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.
Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.
About the People and Culture Team
The Mixpanel People and Culture team is the heart and soul of Mixpanel. We lead with care and empathy and deliver a high-touch employee experience to make Mixpanel a best-in-class, inclusive, and supportive place to work and an equitable environment for all employees to grow and advance.
One key to Mixpanel’s success is emphasizing our people and enabling individuals and teams of all backgrounds to reach their full potential. The People function is critical in driving that effort by executing Mixpanel’s people initiatives, acting as strategic advisors to the executive team and senior leadership, and providing superior internal support while driving HR operational excellence.
About the Role
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office. Mixpanel’s People Team focuses on attracting, developing, and retaining premier talent. As a Senior People Partner, you will work closely with senior business leaders and be instrumental in providing strategic and tactical HR consultation to optimize people, processes, programs, and culture to drive business results. Emphasizing our people and enabling individuals and teams of all backgrounds to reach their full potential is a critical component of Mixpanel’s success.
This role will report to the VP of People, and work as an embedded piece of the global Engineering, Product, Design and G&A organizations, partnering with the leadership team and People functions to provide a best-in-class employee lifecycle for all Mixpanelers!
The ideal candidate is an experienced consultant with a broad understanding of all areas of HR. You will have experience influencing leaders in a fast-paced environment and the interpersonal savvy required to drive human resource strategies and programs in a global workforce.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary People Business Partner for Mixpanel’s EPD and G&A teams
- Build strong relationships with department leaders and influence strategic people decisions that support team effectiveness and organizational growth
- Lead workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and organizational design initiatives within the EPD and G&A teams
- Partner with leadership to drive performance management, employee engagement, and feedback cycles within their teams
- Coach leaders through complex employee relations and change management matters with thoughtfulness and compliance in mind
- Work on all aspects of change management, from strategy and design to implementation and communications
- Analyze people data to identify trends and offer actionable recommendations aligned with business objectives
- Collaborate closely with peers in Total Rewards, Recruiting, L&D, and DEIB to ensure a cohesive employee experience
- Support career pathing, leveling frameworks, and role clarity across technical and non-technical teams
- Investigate and resolve employee relations matters in a way that balances company, internal, and external stakeholder considerations
- Drive high-impact programs that support culture, belonging, and employee development
- Champion and embed Mixpanel’s values across all touchpoints of the employee lifecycle
We're Looking For Someone Who Has
- BA or equivalent work experience with an average of 4+ years in a People Partner role, preferably supporting EPD.
- Deep functional experience in two or more areas preferred, e.g., talent management/acquisition, compensation, employee relations, employee experience, organizational development, immigration, training, etc.
- Strong organizational skills, strong proofreading skills with attention to detail, and a self-starter; proficiency with G-Suite.
- Strong analytical and project management skills, proven ability to design transparent processes, and a detail-oriented yet flexible approach to problem-solving.
- Strong commercial acumen and deep empathy for individuals allowing you to resolve tricky people situations in a balanced and thoughtful way.
- Demonstrated success in consulting, negotiating, and coaching leaders.
- You are a skilled and effective communicator and collaborator with excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
- You are adaptable, agile, and resilient, and you embrace change, move quickly, and are highly resilient when things are ambiguous.
Bonus Points For
- Significant experience partnering with and/or working on Engineering, Product and Design teams
- Experience partnering with G&A teams
- Software as a Service experience
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Compensation
The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here.
Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
- Mental Wellness Benefit
- Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Volunteer Time Off
- Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break
*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*
Culture Values
- Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
- Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
- One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
- Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
- Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
- Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.
Why choose Mixpanel?
We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.
Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.
Mixpanel San Francisco, California, USA Office
Pier 1, Bay 2, The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA, United States, 94111
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