Senior HR Business Partner

LifeStance Health is a leading mental health practice group aiming to support individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. The Senior HR Business Partner will act as a strategic advisor, supporting clinical operations and workforce strategy, while enhancing team effectiveness and patient care outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary HR partner to VP-level or senior leaders within assigned scope
• Function as a trusted advisor, balancing business objectives, workforce needs, organizational health, and employee experience considerations
• Influences and guides leaders through organizational change, operational growth, and workforce transformation initiatives
• Partner cross functionally to drive integrated workforce solutions
• Provide thought partnership on organization structure, team dynamics, role clarity, talent planning to strengthen team effectiveness and operational performance
• Coach leaders through complex people leadership situations including high-impact feedback, change navigation, and development planning
• Reinforce leadership expectations and supports leaders in building strong, accountable, high performing team environments
• Lead higher-complexity employee relations matters, including conduct concerns, policy application, and performance management escalations
• Conduct fact-finding, determine recommended actions, ensure documentation practices aligned to company standards
• Identify recurring regional or functional workforce themes across regions or functions and implement preventative actions to reduce avoidable ER issues
• Escalate legal or high-risk matters in alignment with established protocols
• Drive strategic workforce planning efforts aligned to organizational growth, patient access needs, clinician capacity, and evolving priorities
• Partner with leaders to assess organizational structure, role clarity, and workforce development to improve effectiveness and scalability
• Identify workforce capability gaps and succession risks, recommend talent strategies to strengthen bench strength and organizational continuity
• Utilize workforce analytics and business insights to identify organizational risks, talent gaps, succession needs, and workforce optimization opportunities
• Support organization transformation initiatives included restructures, integrations efforts, leadership transition and operating model evolution
• Guide leaders in identifying and implementing targeted actions that improve team stability and performance
• Align workforce actions with HRBP leadership and enterprise standards to align insights and ensure consistency in approach across the organization
• Provide value driven HR strategy partnership by translating vision and strategies into actionable, value-added impact and implementation
• Support operational growth, workforce transformation, organizational effectiveness, and integration of acquisitions, ensuring strategic alignment and engagement
• Translate enterprise HR strategies into scalable regional playbooks across markets
• Provide informal leadership, case consultation, and capability guidance to HRBP I and Associate HRBP roles
• Provide coaching, case consultation, and development support to team members to build capability and consistency across the HRBP team
• Reinforce shared standards for documentation, communication, escalation, and leader guidance to ensure aligned HR practices across locations
• Represent the HRBP perspective in cross-functional initiatives (e.g., leader enablement, policy rollout, practice/process refinement)
• Surface regional or business-group insights that inform enterprise workforce decisions, resource prioritization, and program evolution

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in HR, employee relations, leadership coaching, or business partnering roles
• Experience in resource planning, workforce analytics and development and process improvement
• Demonstrated experience independently managing complex ER matters and providing leader coaching
• Strong ability to diagnose team and leader needs and translate them into practical actions
• Ability to influence and build trust with senior leaders
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, multi-site clinical or matrixed environments
• Working knowledge of federal and state employment laws and employment practices with the ability to apply this knowledge to guide leaders and mitigate organizational and compliance risk
• Experience in workforce planning, organization design, workforce analytics, workforce development, and process improvement
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States
• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture
• Experience supporting healthcare or clinical operations strongly preferred
• Experience leading or coaching HR team members; comfort developing talent
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• Familiarity with Workday and other HR systems
• Experience in change leadership, workforce planning, or talent development initiatives