Senior Manager, People Business Partner & Experiences

About Us

Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.

At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.

As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat.

About the role

As a Senior Manager, People Business Partner & Experiences, you’ll partner with employees and leaders across the company to help create and shape compelling employee experiences that not only help attract talent, but also retain and preserve our people.

You’ll do this by partnering with leaders across the company to gain buy-in and support while routinely connecting with employees across the company to welcome different perspectives, feedback, and suggestions. In this role, you will play an important role in end-to-end employee experiences in areas such as: DE&I and Culture, Strategy Development, Organizational Design and Talent Management.

You’ll also manage a small team across our 4WTC office in NYC and Parsippany, NJ to execute on the People Experience strategy as well as the daily maintenance and upkeep of our offices. The ultimate goal for this person is to drive towards a workplace culture that builds a sense of empowerment, feeling of appreciation, and ability to do meaningful and interesting work at Wonder. Responsibilities include:

HR RESPONSIBILITIES

• PARTNERSHIP: collaborate with department leaders and their teams to ensure organizational health and effectiveness and provide talent development and management guidance
• HR PROCESSES: lead HR processes and policies including talent reviews, succession planning, compensation and people-related business continuity strategies during performance review processes
• EMPLOYEE RELATIONS: serve as an advocate to employees and their leaders through employee relations issues and investigations

PEOPLE EXPERIENCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• EMPLOYEE DRIVEN EVENTS - build onsite programs, events, and team building exercises
• EMPLOYEE PROGRAMS – maintain and continue building out employee center programs that drive engagement such as employee recognition programs, milestone rewards, and values and behaviors
• EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS – manage our employee facing communications, intranet and digital screens to help amplify the voices and experiences of our people, while keeping them informed
• CHAMPION DIBS – carry out our diversity and inclusion efforts by bringing people together through activations, and creating visibility and awareness around important efforts that help foster inclusivity and belongingness
• WORKPLACE MANAGEMENT – oversee and manage our main office spaces in NYC and New Jersey, inclusive of security, reception and office management, ensuring for a great physical place for our employees to work out of

Location: The role is based out of our NYC office, with weekly visits to Parsippany, NJ.

The experience you have

• HR experience as a business partner to a growing company, consisting of employee relations and human capital strategies and initiatives
• People management experience supported by at least 2 years of directly managing others
• Ability to work cross functionally and with leaders to gain buy-in around changes and introduction of new initiatives
• Strong ability to build relationships, and consensus with people throughout the company
• Employee communications experience drafting written and visual content tailored to specific user groups

The way you work

• You craft positive approaches with the pursuit of excellence for our people and customers in mind 
• You solve problems and make decisions informed by data, insights, and good judgement 
• You gain trust through open dialogue, embracing change, and actively seeking feedback  

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.  

Base Salary: $157,500