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PEOPLE

Director, People Business Partner

Toronto, Canada
·Salaried, full-time
·Posted 3 days ago
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About the role

Opendoor is rebuilding a broken system. Buying or selling a home should feel fast, transparent, and in the homeowner's control. We ship quickly, test in the open, and judge our work by one thing: whether homeowners end up better off.

We are hiring a Director-level People Business Partner to operate as a business leader embedded with the company's most critical teams, using AI and data to drive execution, insight, and speed. This role exists to raise the bar, increase talent density, and remove organizational friction so leaders can execute faster and better.

This is not a traditional HR role. This is a high-judgment, high-trust operator role.

What you'll do

This role has four core product areas. Each has customers, outcomes, and measurable results.

Org Effectiveness

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Diagnose structural gaps before they become hiring or performance problems
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Model team design options with tradeoffs across headcount, span, layers, and role clarity
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Own workforce planning as a live model, not a once-a-year exercise
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Surface org health signals proactively using data

Talent & Performance

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Drive calibration with rigor — differentiate performance with clarity and conviction, hold the bar
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Own talent development for high-potential leaders and drive decisive action on performance gaps
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Run performance conversations as a coach to the manager, not a mediator
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Lead with attrition rates, performance distributions, hiring velocity, and org spans — not anecdotes

Leader Effectiveness

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Be the thinking partner executives actually call — not the one they CC on HR issues
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Push back on leaders when their instinct is wrong — frame it as tradeoffs, not policy
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Provide direct, honest feedback and help leaders drive accountability through change

People Product GTM

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Own adoption of People initiatives within your client group
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Build a GTM plan for every People product launch: target user, narrative, rollout sequence, success metrics
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Track adoption metrics post-launch and redesign where needed

Build AI-First People Systems

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Embrace and advance AI-powered workflows across performance management, workforce planning, talent insights, and decision support
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Use AI to accelerate every workflow — draft comms, synthesize data, model org options, prep for meetings
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Identify opportunities to automate anything that doesn't require judgment

What You'll Need

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10+ years in People/HR roles, with significant experience in high-growth technology companies
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Proven strategic partner to senior leaders in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
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Strong operator mindset — you understand how companies are built, scaled, and corrected
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High judgment and comfort navigating complex talent and performance decisions
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Analytical rigor — you default to data to drive decisions
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Practical fluency in AI and automation as applied to People and organizational effectiveness
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Direct, low-ego, high-candor communication style
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Bias toward action, speed, and simplicity

Location

This is an in-person role in the Toronto, ON office. Candidates must be based within a commutable distance of the office (468 King St W, Toronto, ON) and able to be physically present in the office 4 days a week.

About Opendoor

At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.

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