Senior Manager, Business Partner - Product & Engineering
Bloomreach is the world’s #1 Commerce Experience Cloud, empowering brands to deliver customer journeys so personalized, they feel like magic. It offers a suite of products that drive true personalization and digital commerce growth, including:
Discovery, offering AI-driven search and merchandising
Content, offering a headless CMS
Engagement, offering a leading CDP and marketing automation solutions
Together, these solutions combine the power of unified customer and product data with the speed and scale of AI optimization, enabling revenue-driving digital commerce experiences that convert on any channel and every journey. Bloomreach serves over 850 global brands including Albertsons, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer. Bloomreach recently raised $175 million in a Series F funding round, bringing its total valuation to $2.2 billion. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management with participation from Bain Capital Ventures and Sixth Street Growth. For more information, visit Bloomreach.com.
Become a Senior Manager, Business Partner or Principal Business Partner at Bloomreach! The work you do will impact our Product and Engineering departments. You will be partnering closely with senior technical leaders - our Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer, VPs and Senior Directors on topics of talent strategy and execution, organization, improving ways of working and productivity. You will be a core part of the global People Business partnering team. We offer a competitive salary along with RSUs and other benefits. Working in the US or EMEA on a full-time basis, you´ll become a core part of the People Team (known elsewhere as HR team).
What challenge awaits you?
Bloomreach is on an extraordinary growth trajectory. We are building 2 highly successful products and a connected data platform, on which they operate. Your job will be to help our senior leaders in Product and Engineering to drive this transformation and help them build a world class R&D organization. Our culture is our secret ingredient and our people, our most important asset. Your role will also be to help create an environment where highly capable people thrive, want to solve tough problems and with their growth mindset help to build an industry challenger. Our people's mission is to be the single most impactful experience of our professional lives. Come and join us to make this mission possible!
Your job will be to:
- Be ambassador of our values and culture
- Be a strategic thought partner to senior leaders in Product end Engineering, for 2 strong product pillars and a platform. Teams are based in Silicon Valley, Amsterdam, Bratislava and Bangalore.
- Become a trusted partner in driving effective decision making and change management - using data to solve the right problems and implement with high-velocity; Support leaders with practical solutions to solve their problems
- Advise leaders on critical people-related topics such as organization design, multi-site and virtual-first productivity, performance management, career development, leadership empowerment, rewards and recognition, and employee engagement (including effective deployment of various People related policies)
- Build strong relationships with people from within the functions you support, in addition use quarterly barometer data to know the pulse of the organization
- Collaborate with the rest of People leadership team to create an environment at Bloomreach (via people programs, processes and policies) where highly capable people thrive and have a meaningful impact
- Lead and act as a mentor for other business partners
Your success story will be:
- In 30 days, you will understand our context, meet all the key stakeholders and get to know the company
- In 60 days, you will craft People priorities for Product and Engineering with collaboration with your key stakeholders and start executing on the plan
- In 90 days, you will have materially helped your stakeholders to advance their People related priorities
You have the following experience and qualities:Professional experience
- Relevant business experience working with senior leadership (CxO to CxO-2) at a strategic level, in R&D for at least 3 years in a SaaS company distributed across continent
- Experience working US, India and at least one European site - understanding typical people-practices of tech companies in each of the geographies
- Ability to travel on quarterly basis to, US (Silicon Valley) India (Bangalore) and Europe - depending on location of the candidate
- University degree
Personal qualities
- Proactive in identifying and solving people related issues
- Business acumen in order to have opinions on everything we do, and push our organization to get better from a people standpoint
- Empathetic listener and effective communicator
- Data driven problem solver with good project management skills and ability to prioritize in order to create maximum impact
- Approachable with strong customer-orientation
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority
- Comfortable with ambiguity, challenging the status quo and taking part in complex strategy discussions in a dynamic work environment.
Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences.
The pay range actually offered will take into account a variety of potential factors considered in compensation, including but not limited to skills, qualifications, geographic location, accomplishments, experience, credentials, internal equity and business needs, and may vary from the range listed above.
Base Salary Range
$120,000—$150,000 USD
A great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one.
We have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication.
We believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.
We work remote-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.
We organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.
- We encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.
The Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.6/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5
Personal Development:
We have a People Development Program -- participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.
- Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*
Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.
Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*
Well-being:
The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*
Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*
We organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.
We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.
- Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*
Compensation:
Restricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*
Everyone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*
We offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000 paid out immediately after the new hire starts.
We reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*
(*Subject to employment type. Interns are exempt from marked benefits, usually for the first 6 months.)
Excited? Join us and transform the future of commerce experiences!
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