Principal People Partner

Principal People Partner

Pie's mission is to empower small businesses to thrive by making commercial insurance affordable and as easy as pie. We leverage technology to transform how small businesses buy and experience commercial insurance.

Like our small business customers, we are a diverse team of builders, dreamers, and entrepreneurs who are driven by core values and operating principles that guide every decision we make.

At Pie, our "employees" are team members, and we call ourselves Pie-oneers. The Principal People Partner ensures the successful contribution of our Pie-oneers by driving people and organizational strategies that enable and empower our leaders to lead their teams to achieve their highest-impact goals and drive success across the business.

As Pie's People team evolves, we are seeking two highly strategic yet execution-focused Principal People Partners to serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, driving people and organizational strategies that enable our leaders and teams to achieve their highest-impact goals and drive business success. These highly collaborative roles partner with executive leadership to design and implement talent strategies, foster high-performing teams, and build a culture of performance, agility, and integrative thinking.

The Principal People Partner role reports directly to the Chief People Officer and works cross-functionally across the PTE team and senior managers (primarily Director+), including the CEO and Pie's Senior Leadership Team (SLT). As a senior level individual contributor, the Principal People Partner brings considerable leadership influence and is responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives, leading change management, and providing expert consultation on all aspects of the team member lifecycle.

How You'll Do It

Strategic Business Partnership

• Lead senior management in translating business strategy into a talent strategy that embeds and reinforces our culture and drives success across our business
• Align people strategies with business objectives, partnering with leaders to understand their goals and provide guidance on organizational design and development, all aspects of talent management, workforce planning and management, performance development, total rewards, and experience and benchmarking across the team member lifecycle.
• Serve as a strategic consultant to leaders, analyzing trends and metrics to identify gaps and patterns and develop solutions, programs, and policies that drive the best business outcomes.

Change Management

Service, Compliance and Risk Mitigation

Talent Development & Performance Enablement

Team Member Experience & Engagement

Systems, Tools, and Experience Management

The Right Stuff

Expected Competencies

Ownership : Leads with a one-team, extreme ownership mindset, We Are The They

Critical Thinking : Leverages first principles, integrative thinking, and Pie's Collaboration and Decision-Making Framework (CDMF) for designing the data-driven, maximum win / win solutions, considering all stakeholder needs, impacts, and interdependencies. Can pull self up to see forest from the trees.

Growth Mindset : Models growth mindset and accurate self assessment while remaining genuinely open to feedback. Demonstrates humility by learning from diverse sources, creating a culture where admitting gaps and mistakes is productive and safe. Develops resilience strategies for self and work and others within their sphere of influence. Demonstrates grit by persevering through obstacles. Demonstrates flexibility by proactively changing approaches when strategies and tactics aren't working and adapts readily to changing circumstances.

Collaboration & Influence : Creates needs-based solutions across team boundaries that serve organizational / functional interests first, consistently putting broader org / function needs ahead of team or personal interests. Builds high candor, high trust, high context relationships across all boundaries within the organization, maximizing operational effectiveness, even with competing priorities and resource constraints. Addresses systemic causes of conflict while effectively resolving disagreements. Lead with first team commitment to the function balanced with service to the organization.

Strategy : Develops 6-month to multi-year strategies integrated with functional and organizational objectives. Creates clear strategic narratives that connect their work to functional priorities. Deeply understands operations within their functional domain and understands operations within their business domain. Recognizes how market and industry shifts impact medium term strategy, both functionally and within the business.

Communication : Writes and speaks with accuracy, clarity, and influence with audiences within and outside of functional area at all levels, including the CEO, and across different formats and channels. Creates clear and highly compelling narratives that influence strategy. Communicates directly and respectfully and actively minimizing triangulation and gossip. Makes thoughtful requests solving for intersection of stakeholder needs, avoiding demands and building alignment across competing priorities. Functions as a stabilizing influence during high-stakes situations. Maintains composure and clarity in the most challenging organizational challenges and stress.

Execution : Manages multiple initiatives delivering high impact results, acting as force multiplier through effective delegation, empowerment, and building infrastructure to support scale. Drives operational frameworks to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Identifies opportunities for improving performance and consistently overcomes significant obstacles. Takes ownership of complex challenges beyond immediate scope, demonstrating broader functional and organizational thinking.

The use of AI in Application Review : To support a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process, we use AI-powered tools to assist in the initial screening of applications. These tools help us identify qualifications and prior work experiences that align with the requirements of the role. All AI-reviewed applications are still subject to human oversight and decision-making at multiple stages of the process. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to Pie utilizing these AI technologies to assist in our evaluation process.

Base Compensation Range

$145,000 - $180,000 USD