Sr. HR Business Partner
Today• San Diego, CA
AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.
The Sr. HR Business Partner will drive the AppFolio people strategy in alignment with business objectives. In this role, you will enable leaders’ success to retain the exceptional and diverse team that powers a culture of performance excellence, while continuously and proactively identifying areas to optimize, innovate, and simplify.
Your impact
- Empower leaders through strategic HR Business Partner support by integrating business outcomes with best-in-class leadership and organizational practices in partnership with People Team Centers of Excellence. Be the partner the AppFolio business leaders can’t live without!
- Evolve the organizational structure that enables AppFolio’s scalable growth path. Own end-to-end organizational development from diagnosis to planning & executing change.
- Drive organizational change management for departments, ensuring a clear articulation of our company strategy.
- Enable sr. leaders to build and execute action plans that increase employee engagement.
- Activate a culture of high performance by implementing strategic and consistent people and organization planning routines with leaders to scale AppFolio.
- Equip AppFolio leaders to drive high-quality talent, succession, performance, and compensation routines and discussions.
Qualifications
- Business Acumen: Understands business priorities, can foresee the potential impact to the organization from a people perspective, analyzes and uses data to make recommendations or decisions.
- Organizational Development: Understands organizational needs and best practices. Has the ability to diagnose organizational issues, facilitate discussion with leadership, and provide recommendations to achieve maximum organizational performance and efficiencies.
- Facilitation: Advanced facilitation skills, with high EQ and the ability to diffuse even the most tense situations in order to get to a positive outcome.
- Talent & Performance Management: Able to provide sound guidance on performance and team effectiveness to enable managers and employees to achieve business goals. Can provide program management of high-growth talent, development roadmaps, succession planning, comp strategies, and performance improvement.
- Influence: Consult with and influence senior management on key organizational and management priorities. Understands how and when to drive change. Interacts seamlessly at the Director level and above, provides sound suggestions, takes action, builds trust and credibility.
- Collaboration + Partnership: A collaborative partner who thrives in a culture of feedback. Strengthens connections across teams. You proactively consider the impact of your decisions on the business & HR team, and ensure all key partners and customer voices are represented.
- Project Management: Project management and organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to navigate in a fast-paced & performance-oriented environment.
Must have
- BA/BS in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Design, or relevant field.
- 7+ years broad HR experience, with 4+ years as an HR Business partner in a high-growth organization, preferably high-tech.
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Proven experience leveraging and integrating the work of HR COEs such as Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Talent Management, People Operations, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to provide comprehensive HR solutions.
Proven experience supporting and influencing multiple senior executives (Director level and above), ensuring adoption of key HR initiatives and best practices.
Demonstrated curiosity, business acumen, and understanding of the company’s revenue streams & financial drivers.
Experience managing multiple projects and assignments, prioritizing, meeting tight deadlines, while displaying initiative and innovation.
Thrives working in a fast-paced environment, encouraging structure with flexibility to pivot when the business requires change.
Experience driving change management in an organic, authentic, and flexible way.
Demonstrated ability to work in and manage ambiguity – dealing with issues that do not always have a process or a system in place.
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Compensation & Benefits
The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $94,400 - $118,000 [base pay]. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.
Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
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Client-provided location(s): San Diego, CA
Job ID: oYRaxfwg
Employment Type: OTHER
Posted: 2025-08-18T18:33:17
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion