About Float

Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses, empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform, Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow, so they can focus on what matters most: growth.

As one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and top-rated startups in 2024 and 2023, Float is customer-obsessed, passionate and entrepreneurial, with a team that includes leaders from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, TouchBistro, and Ada.

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision-making decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.

Our product

Float is Canada's complete business finance platform, combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend, save, and grow. Trusted by 4,000 Canadian companies, Float provides high-limit corporate cards, automated expense management, next-day bill payments, high-yield accounts and fast, friendly support—all built in Canada, for Canada. Float is backed by world-class venture and fintech investors, including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures, partners behind our $70 million Series B raise.

Our team is a collection of ambitious, collaborative and mission-driven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And we’re looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.

About the Senior People Partner role

As Float’s Senior People Partner the expectations will be high. You are an integral member of the Float team and your expertise & confidence will be relied upon to provide advice and counsel managers and employees on a broad range of People programs and practices. Reporting into Chief People Officer, this is an exciting opportunity to work on high-impact bespoke People initiatives and projects in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, non-traditional environment.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Supporting our People Leaders - Act as an advisor, coach & partner to our Float People Leaders on all People related matters. Align People strategies with business objectives to support the company’s growth and success. Provide insights and recommendations on organizational design, workforce planning, and talent management.
• Employee Relations - Foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, where everyone can bring their unique perspectives and talents and are empowered to do their best work. Address and resolve complex employee relations issues with sensitivity and fairness. Serve as a trusted resource for employees at all levels, providing guidance on HR policies and procedures.
• Talent Development - Design and implement development programs and initiatives. Support managers in identifying and developing high-potential employees. Facilitate performance management processes, including goal setting, feedback, and performance reviews.
• Change Management - Lead People initiatives and change management efforts to support organizational transformation. Communicate changes effectively across the organization to ensure smooth transitions.
• Total Rewards - Partner with the Chief People Officer to design and implement and maintain competitive total rewards programs. Provide guidance on compensation strategies and practices to ensure equity and alignment with business goals.
• HR Analytics and Reporting - Utilize data and analytics to inform decision-making and measure the effectiveness of People programs. Prepare and present reports on key HR metrics.
• Special Projects & more - as required.

You’ll be great in this role if:

• You’ve got the experience. You’re a high performing People professional with 7-10+ years of end-to-end HR/People experience in a high growth startup environment. You’ve been a part of building amazing People programs and scaling a company and want to build again. You have employee relations experience and experience supporting coaching and counseling, employees at all levels of an organization.
• You’re a trusted partner. People feel comfortable coming to you. You are a true partner to the business and are relied upon to answer employee questions. You provide amazing employee experiences by forming genuine and value-add partnerships throughout the company. You also have the highest level of discretion and integrity. Most importantly, considering Radical Candor is part of Float’s values, you can give and receive direct feedback.
• You’re driven and action oriented. You have an extremely strong work ethic and approach each situation with energy and enthusiasm. You strive to excel in every aspect of your work. You approach every challenge, committed and determined to achieve or exceed expectations and act with a sense of urgency.
• You’ve built high performance teams. You design, uphold, and foster high performance teams and cultures. You have a high bar and high expectations and lead by example when it comes to performance management and talent calibration.
• You’re a strong communicator. You draw people in with your compelling verbal and written communication. You are an intent listener, incredibly insightful and can articulate those hard to pinpoint details that others miss. You are also comfortable sharing your ideas, suggestions and feedback openly and are a huge fan of radical candour.
• You’re a critical thinker. You are able to take in a lot of information and have excellent judgment. You can connect the dots and help people understand the impact of various decisions. You aren’t a box checker and go beyond the standard questions to get a greater understanding.
• You have superior attention to detail. You pride yourself on thoroughness and accuracy. You are a stickler for detail, especially when it comes to anything legal or data related.
• You’re an owner. You love a challenge, and take great satisfaction in tackling them head on. You are highly accountable and deliver on your commitments. You are also comfortable making independent decisions and following your instincts to be able to move quickly.
• You love optimization. Inefficiency and waste frustrates you and you leverage your tech savviness to streamline whatever you can.

This role won’t be a fit if:

• You don’t love coming into an office IRL (3 days each week)
• You haven’t helped scale a company before
• You don’t have a strong work ethic
• You aren’t able to deal with ambiguity
• You don’t have a high sense of urgency and drive
• You are not a self-starter or resourceful
• You get easily frustrated
• You don’t thrive in a high performance culture
• You aren’t ridiculously organized and efficient
• You aren’t a problem solver
• You aren’t extremely detail oriented

Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.

and Perks of working at Float:

• Competitive compensation & total rewards

• Flexible time off‍ when you need to recharge
• Catered lunches on Tuesdays & Wednesdays
• A personal Float card with a quarterly stipend to spend on what matters most to you as well as a Home Office stipend
• Lots of autonomy to make an impact
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team
• A dog-friendly office
• Being able to say you helped make Float a career-defining period of our employee’s lives - one that is challenging, rewarding, impactful, fulfilling and meaningful!