People & Talent Partner

Simply Business is a digital insurance brokerage that specializes in one thing: protecting the businesses our customers are working hard to build. We’re doing this by simplifying the insurance-buying process for all small businesses, blending together a combination of technology, data, and insurance knowledge. Our proprietary technology platform allows small business owners to easily search and compare quotes from over 20 top-rated insurance providers, customize their coverage, and purchase and access their policies – all online.

Founded in the UK in 2005, Simply Business is an insurtech pioneer with nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses. Simply Business is passionate about building an outstanding product for our customers – one that empowers their entrepreneurial spirits.

More importantly, we’re doing it all while taking care of our people. We’ve consistently been named a best place to work, including most recently ranking in Built In’s 2025 Best Companies to Work for in the US (Top 100), and Best Places to Work in Boston.

We want team members who have the drive to challenge boundaries. If you’re smart and passionate about delivering brilliant customer experiences, we’d love to hear from you.

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Strategic People Partnering

• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, deeply understanding commercial objectives to provide expert guidance on organizational design, talent management, and change management.

• Strategy Translation & Innovation: Partner with Centers of Excellence (Reward, Impact, People Ops) to design and implement innovative, bespoke people programs that solve specific business challenges and align with our global mission.

• Champion Culture & Change: Act as a steward of Simply Business culture, leading change management and culture-shaping initiatives to ensure we remain an agile, inclusive, and scalable workplace.

    Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness

• Talent capabilities to drive SB’s long term (2030) success: Responsible for driving the identification and  talent management of the long term strategic talent capabilities that will enable SB to reach its 2030 goals. This includes talent capability identification, succession planning, ‘build vs. buy vs. borrow vs. bot’ talent management strategies, and ultimately ensure we have the right capabilities at the right time. 

• Organization Effectiveness: Build strategy and deliver frameworks, principles and coaching for People Partners and Leaders to increase organizational effectiveness - such as organization design principles, ways of working, cross-functional teams, organizational health, etc.  

• Data & Tech Enabled: Leverage current and predictive data to spot potential challenges before they arise while leveraging technology and AI to increase the effectiveness of relevant talent programming. 

What are we looking for? 

• Proven track record in a HRBP/People Partner with exposure to Talent Management programming OR proven track record in a Talent Management role with exposure to HRBP/People Partner responsibilities such as org design, compensation, ER, etc. - ideally within a high-growth and global FinTech environment.

• Ability to demonstrate strong commercial acumen and a global mindset across multiple business areas 

• Experience distilling complex information into actionable and simple frameworks and/or principles that deliver impactful results  

• Strong communication skills - just as comfortable in a high-level strategy session with executives as you are with a deep-dive coaching session with a mid-level manager 

• Thrive in complex and nuanced quantitative and qualitative data sets and can identify actionable insights, learnings or trends from that data 

• Track record of juggling multiple priorities with competing timelines and deliverables 

• Action oriented and move with pace and urgency 

Here are some of the great benefits and perks that come from being a Simply Business employee:

• Group plan for medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

• Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance coverage.

• Participation in the Company’s bonus program-Participation in 401(k) plan with a 5% employer match.

• Commuter benefits to help cut down on parking and public transit costs.

• 25 days of vacation time plus 10 sick days and 10 company holidays.

• A genuine investment in your learning and development-Regular team outings and volunteer opportunities. 

• An awesome office space.

• A hybrid working model, giving our employees great choice and flexibility to work in a way that’s best for their particular job, their teams, and their lives.

Simply Business is an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to welcoming and helping employees grow within an inclusive & diverse culture.