Global People Business Partner

The electrical grid is the largest and most complicated machine ever built. Yes Energy’s industry-leading electric power trading analytics software provides real-time visibility into the massive amount of data generated by the North American electrical grid every day. Our unique and innovative view of the data informs real-time trading decisions and mid-to-long-term investment decisions that keep utility prices low, support the energy transition, and keep the grid up and running. It’s both challenging work and work with a purpose.

The People Business Partner (PBP) aligns business strategy with people programs to drive organizational effectiveness and business performance. Serving as a strategic People Partner to designated executive leaders, this role presents a unique opportunity to build and expand global HR experience by supporting employees across our US East Coast footprint and international hubs in London and Bucharest. Combining strong foundational business acumen with a drive to learn cross-cultural HR, the PBP delivers high-touch leadership coaching, manager enablement, site culture building, and hands-on support through global workforce initiatives across a multi-time-zone environment. 

• Salary range: $90,000 - $115,000 (Targeted base pay; final offer varies based on geographic location, experience, and skills)
• Location: Richmond, VA 
• Work Model: Hybrid (2 days in-office to anchor local site culture; 3 days remote)
• Full-time
• Reporting to: Vice President, People Experience

• →Executive Advisory & Business Partnership: Serve as the strategic People Partner to designated business leaders, translating departmental roadmaps into scalable workforce and talent development strategies.  
• →Multi-Hub Culture & Engagement: Drive local site culture, engagement events, and community-building initiatives in Richmond, Boston, London, and Bucharest, leveraging employee feedback metrics to continuously enhance retention.  
• →Global HR Development & Advisory: Actively build expertise in European employment practices (UK and Romania); advise on local compliance, employee relations, and global people initiatives as international footprint structures evolve.  
• →Manager Enablement & Coaching: Coach managers on organizational effectiveness, conflict resolution, team health, and talent development.  
• →Talent Development & Lifecycle Programs: Partner with leaders to drive career pathing and staff growth, while facilitating annual performance review cycles, promotion calibrated reviews, and succession modeling (recruiting is managed by a dedicated Talent Acquisition team).  
• →Employee Relations & Diagnostics: Conduct objective workplace investigations and resolve complex ER issues with high discretion, diplomacy, and cultural awareness.  
• →Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Talent Acquisition on seamless candidate-to-employee onboarding transitions and with Total Rewards on localized compensation/benefits alignment.  
• →Travel: Travel approximately 15% of the time, with periodic trips to our HQ office in Boulder, CO, as well as office sites in Boston, London, and Bucharest. 

• Experience: 6+ years of progressive HRBP/People Partner experience supporting fast-paced, high-growth technology environments.  Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or other related fields, or equivalent work experience required.
• Proven Business Partnering: Demonstrated track record of building trusted relationships with senior leaders, driving talent management, and managing complex domestic employee relations. 
• Global Curiosity & Aptitude: Strong enthusiasm and eagerness to learn international HR practices, European labor laws (UK and CEE regions like Romania), and cross-cultural business dynamics.
• Systems & Technical Literacy: Fluency with standard modern collaboration tools (Google Workspace, Slack) and fast adaptability to modern HR platforms (e.g., UKG).

• Core HR & Continuous Learning: Deep understanding of core HR functions (policies, employee relations, total rewards) paired with a growth mindset to quickly master international compliance and labor standards. 
• Time Zone Agility: Ability to flex working hours during morning periods to overlap effectively with UK (GMT) and Romania (EET) working hours.  
• Community Builder: Strong interpersonal charisma to connect, engage, and unify hybrid and distributed office cultures.  
• Diplomacy & Sound Judgment: High emotional intelligence to handle sensitive employee relations matters with empathy, speed, and fairness. 

Yes Energy delivers real-time market data and electric power trading decision solutions.  Over 1,000 market participants use Yes Energy solutions daily.  The business is a leader in all aspects of information content collection and management, developing and delivering data and market analytics solutions. Since its inception in 2008, Yes Energy has become a trusted and respected supplier of innovative and reliable solutions focused on the needs of power market analysts, traders, and trade managers.  Yes Energy has a team of 170 amazing professionals in Boulder, CO (HQ); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Glendora, CA; Richmond, VA; London, United Kingdom; Auckland, New Zealand; and Bucharest, Romania.

Yes Energy has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Colorado, and we have the culture to prove it. At Yes Energy, we care about saying “Yes” to customers. We like to listen, learn, and develop our solutions in line with their needs. We think about customers as business partners, and when we help them be more successful … we are more successful, too.

Around the office, our culture is driven by some pretty fundamental values that we’re proud of:

• We love innovation and solving tough challenges;
• We are “high standards people” who combine passion and pride with hard work and rewards of all kinds-- in an ethic that is consistent across the company;
• We’re team-focused with a flat hierarchy-- we work in small teams on well-defined projects that directly impact the success of the business;
• We play to the strengths and experience of each person while each of us also works along a continuum of roles adjacent to our focus area.  This presents the challenge of maintaining a broad set of skills as well as an opportunity to learn and contribute in many ways; 
• We are constantly growing. Professional development happens every day and every year.