Principal People Partner

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Category: People Team
Job ID: R_106883
Job Type: Regular

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money with peace of mind.
We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If you’re excited to redefine how work gets done through AI, automation, and operational excellence, we’d love to meet you.

We are hiring a Principal People Partner, based in Seattle, to report to our Director, People Partners and support a portfolio of Remitly's most technical and fastest-moving organizations.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who combines strong judgment with a builder's mindset. As Remitly enters its next phase of growth, you will help design the next version of our organization, a more AI-enabled, global, and multi-product company. You'll partner closely with business leaders to understand what they are trying to accomplish, identify the organizational and talent challenges that matter most, and build practical solutions and mechanisms that help teams move faster and operate more effectively.

You'll bring strong business acumen, curiosity, and a bias for action. You'll challenge assumptions, simplify where we can, and help translate business strategy into organizational outcomes. You'll be comfortable stepping into ambiguous problems, working across boundaries and borders, and accelerating business goals.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who brings deep People expertise and a willingness to rethink ways of working.

What You'll Do

Understand the Business and Shape the Organization

Develop a deep understanding of the businesses and teams you support—their strategy, customers, goals, operating model, and challenges.

Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and bring clear recommendations to organizational and talent decisions, particularly where the trade-offs are complex.

Help leaders design organizations for where the business is going, not simply where it is today. Ask the questions that matter: Is ownership clear? Are teams structured around the right outcomes? What is slowing us down? What capabilities will we need next?

Build Effective, Accountable Teams

Partner with leaders to build small, empowered teams with clear ownership and accountability.

Look for opportunities to simplify structures, strengthen decision-making, and bring functions closer together when it improves speed and outcomes.

Help leaders think intentionally about where teams and capabilities should sit, recognizing the benefits of proximity, time-zone alignment, and staying close to customers and the business.

Help Evolve How Work Gets Done

Technology and AI are changing what individuals and teams can accomplish. Help leaders navigate that evolution thoughtfully by identifying where technology can simplify work, automate repetitive tasks, improve access to information, and create capacity for higher-value work.

Bring that same curiosity to your own work. Experiment with new tools, learn quickly, and translate emerging capabilities into practical improvements for teams and managers.

The goal isn't technology for its own sake. It's better ways of working and better business outcomes.

Strengthen Manager Ownership

We believe managers should have clear ownership of their teams, including performance, feedback, talent decisions, development, and team health.

Help managers build the judgment, tools, and confidence to carry that responsibility well. Provide direct coaching and expertise when situations are complex, while simplifying processes and increasing manager and employee self-service where it makes sense.

Our goal is to build stronger managers and healthier organizations, not dependence on People Partners.

Solve Complex People and Organizational Problems

Bring sound judgment to organizational change, workforce decisions, performance, employee relations, succession, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics.

Partner across People, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Legal, Finance, and other teams to bring the right expertise to the problem. Provide leadership on complex employee relations matters, including investigations, performance management, and employment considerations across the geographies you support.

Look beyond the immediate issue to identify patterns and root causes. Where we can solve something structurally rather than repeatedly, help us do that.

Build for Scale and Strengthen the Craft

Treat People practices and services with a product mindset: understand the need, simplify the experience, build useful mechanisms, and continue improving them.

Build tools and approaches that benefit more than the teams you directly support. Share what works, mentor other People team members and help raise the bar on how the team uses data, technology, and judgment.

What You Bring

Experience

10+ years of progressive HR experience, with significant experience as a senior People Partner in a high-growth technology, fintech, or similarly complex global environment
Experience serving as a senior People Partner to technical organizations such as engineering, product, or data, and influencing senior leaders without relying on positional authority
Experience supporting multiple senior leaders and prioritizing effectively across a broad, fast-moving, and ambiguous portfolio
Deep expertise in employee relations, including complex investigations, performance management, organizational change, and multi-jurisdiction employment matters
Strong organizational design, workforce planning, and change management experience
Experience across the talent lifecycle, including performance, succession, leadership development, and engagement
Experience supporting both 0→1 or incubation teams and scaled organizations, with an understanding that different stages of a business require different operating models
Evidence of building and improving mechanisms, tools, or services—and using technology and AI where it can meaningfully improve how work gets done

Skills & Mindset

Strong business acumen. You understand how the business works, what drives its success, and connect organizational and talent decisions to business outcomes.
High judgment. You navigate complex situations where there isn't an obvious answer, balancing business context, people considerations, risk, and long-term organizational health.
A builder and simplifier. You look for root causes, question unnecessary complexity, and build practical solutions that can scale.
Data-driven and systematic. You use data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, make better decisions, and understand whether something is working.
Technology-forward and AI-curious. You actively experiment with new tools and look for thoughtful ways technology can simplify work, improve decisions, and increase the leverage of teams.
Direct and constructive. You challenge assumptions and give honest feedback at every level, including to senior leaders, while maintaining trust and strong relationships.
Comfortable with change. You create clarity and make progress even when priorities, organizations, or answers are evolving.
highly collaborative. You care more about solving the problem than owning it and work easily across functional boundaries.
Connected to our mission. You understand that better organizations ultimately enable us to build better products and experiences for our customers.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $148,000 – $175,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role. #LI-Hybrid

Our Benefits

Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we’ve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money with peace of mind.
We’re looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If you’re excited to redefine how work gets done through AI, automation, and operational excellence, we’d love to meet you.

We are hiring a Principal People Partner, based in Seattle, to report to our Director, People Partners and support a portfolio of Remitly's most technical and fastest-moving organizations.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who combines strong judgment with a builder's mindset. As Remitly enters its next phase of growth, you will help design the next version of our organization, a more AI-enabled, global, and multi-product company. You'll partner closely with business leaders to understand what they are trying to accomplish, identify the organizational and talent challenges that matter most, and build practical solutions and mechanisms that help teams move faster and operate more effectively.

You'll bring strong business acumen, curiosity, and a bias for action. You'll challenge assumptions, simplify where we can, and help translate business strategy into organizational outcomes. You'll be comfortable stepping into ambiguous problems, working across boundaries and borders, and accelerating business goals.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who brings deep People expertise and a willingness to rethink ways of working.

What You'll Do

Understand the Business and Shape the Organization

Develop a deep understanding of the businesses and teams you support—their strategy, customers, goals, operating model, and challenges.

Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and bring clear recommendations to organizational and talent decisions, particularly where the trade-offs are complex.

Help leaders design organizations for where the business is going, not simply where it is today. Ask the questions that matter: Is ownership clear? Are teams structured around the right outcomes? What is slowing us down? What capabilities will we need next?

Build Effective, Accountable Teams

Partner with leaders to build small, empowered teams with clear ownership and accountability.

Look for opportunities to simplify structures, strengthen decision-making, and bring functions closer together when it improves speed and outcomes.

Help leaders think intentionally about where teams and capabilities should sit, recognizing the benefits of proximity, time-zone alignment, and staying close to customers and the business.

Help Evolve How Work Gets Done

Technology and AI are changing what individuals and teams can accomplish. Help leaders navigate that evolution thoughtfully by identifying where technology can simplify work, automate repetitive tasks, improve access to information, and create capacity for higher-value work.

Bring that same curiosity to your own work. Experiment with new tools, learn quickly, and translate emerging capabilities into practical improvements for teams and managers.

The goal isn't technology for its own sake. It's better ways of working and better business outcomes.

Strengthen Manager Ownership

We believe managers should have clear ownership of their teams, including performance, feedback, talent decisions, development, and team health.

Help managers build the judgment, tools, and confidence to carry that responsibility well. Provide direct coaching and expertise when situations are complex, while simplifying processes and increasing manager and employee self-service where it makes sense.

Our goal is to build stronger managers and healthier organizations, not dependence on People Partners.

Solve Complex People and Organizational Problems

Bring sound judgment to organizational change, workforce decisions, performance, employee relations, succession, leadership effectiveness, and team dynamics.

Partner across People, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Legal, Finance, and other teams to bring the right expertise to the problem. Provide leadership on complex employee relations matters, including investigations, performance management, and employment considerations across the geographies you support.

Look beyond the immediate issue to identify patterns and root causes. Where we can solve something structurally rather than repeatedly, help us do that.

Build for Scale and Strengthen the Craft

Treat People practices and services with a product mindset: understand the need, simplify the experience, build useful mechanisms, and continue improving them.

Build tools and approaches that benefit more than the teams you directly support. Share what works, mentor other People team members and help raise the bar on how the team uses data, technology, and judgment.

What You Bring

Experience

10+ years of progressive HR experience, with significant experience as a senior People Partner in a high-growth technology, fintech, or similarly complex global environment
Experience serving as a senior People Partner to technical organizations such as engineering, product, or data, and influencing senior leaders without relying on positional authority
Experience supporting multiple senior leaders and prioritizing effectively across a broad, fast-moving, and ambiguous portfolio
Deep expertise in employee relations, including complex investigations, performance management, organizational change, and multi-jurisdiction employment matters
Strong organizational design, workforce planning, and change management experience
Experience across the talent lifecycle, including performance, succession, leadership development, and engagement
Experience supporting both 0→1 or incubation teams and scaled organizations, with an understanding that different stages of a business require different operating models
Evidence of building and improving mechanisms, tools, or services—and using technology and AI where it can meaningfully improve how work gets done

Skills & Mindset

Strong business acumen. You understand how the business works, what drives its success, and connect organizational and talent decisions to business outcomes.
High judgment. You navigate complex situations where there isn't an obvious answer, balancing business context, people considerations, risk, and long-term organizational health.
A builder and simplifier. You look for root causes, question unnecessary complexity, and build practical solutions that can scale.
Data-driven and systematic. You use data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, make better decisions, and understand whether something is working.
Technology-forward and AI-curious. You actively experiment with new tools and look for thoughtful ways technology can simplify work, improve decisions, and increase the leverage of teams.
Direct and constructive. You challenge assumptions and give honest feedback at every level, including to senior leaders, while maintaining trust and strong relationships.
Comfortable with change. You create clarity and make progress even when priorities, organizations, or answers are evolving.
highly collaborative. You care more about solving the problem than owning it and work easily across functional boundaries.
Connected to our mission. You understand that better organizations ultimately enable us to build better products and experiences for our customers.

Compensation Details

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $148,000 – $175,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role. #LI-Hybrid

Our Benefits

Flexible paid time off
Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Continuing education benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

What our Remitlians say

Evelyne Kuo

Program Manager - Technical

On the Security & Privacy team, I reimagine what’s possible by going beyond traditional compliance to create a culture where security is part of everyone’s day-to-day — through programs like our champion network, engaging training sessions, and company-wide awareness events that make security approachable and empowering.”

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Amara Agbo

Software Development Engineer II

To me, reimagining what’s possible means constantly learning new technologies and applying cutting-edge solutions to build localized systems that scale across currencies, countries, and regulations. The challenges we solve at Remitly don’t just strengthen our platform — they expand financial access for millions of people worldwide. That’s what makes the work both exciting and impactful.”

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Rosa Castellon Herrera

Senior Team Manager - QA

Stand for excellence means to me always raising the bar, pushing through discomfort, to deliver our best to our teams and customers every time. We come together as a team to share ideas to develop a rubric that helps us deliver impactful results.”

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Stephanie Cameron

Senior Product Manager

On the product team at Remitly, I’m trusted to make decisions that drive real impact—not just for my team, but for the business and our customers. I’m encouraged to take ownership of problems even when they’re outside my immediate scope, to speak up, and to bring the right people together to solve them. Lately, that’s meant working on real-time FX and funding tools that support our treasury team in lowering transaction costs—so we can pass those savings on to our customers. That trust and cross-team collaboration make it easy to stay focused on what really matters in the long run.”

What our Remitlians say

Nadav Yekutiel

Senior Manager - Analytics

At Remitly, diving deep has meant pushing past easy answers to truly understand what our customers need. I’ve seen our analytics teams uncover insights that weren’t obvious at first glance — like identifying hidden friction points in the customer journey that, once solved, improved both experience and trust. This commitment to going beyond the surface makes our recommendations stronger, and it’s a big part of how we deliver meaningful impact across the business.”