HR Business Partner - Geneva
Geneva
Mission Control – People /
Employee / Full-Time /
On-site
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You’ll Have
We are seeking a world-class experienced proactive Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) to join our HRBPs squad. The HRBP will play a crucial role in designing and implementing the employee experience and journey through HR initiatives that support the overall business objectives, supporting the growth journey and engagement of our SonarSourcers.
On a daily basis, you will
- Provide day-to-day support to leaders, which will include answering questions about policy application in specific employee cases, driving talent and people development plans, and ensuring that day-to-day performance management guidance is provided to leaders.
- Partner with business leaders to understand organizational goals and challenges, providing strategic HR guidance and insights.
- Change management: help employees adapt to new ways of working and manage the organization's change process
- Conducts weekly meetings with respective business units.
- Consult with line management, providing HR guidance when appropriate.
- Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the HR group to develop solutions, programs, and policies.
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to the day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Partner with the legal department as needed/required, under the guidance of the CHRO.
- Provide day-to-day management guidance to line managers (e.g., coaching, counseling, disciplinary actions).
- Work closely with managers and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
- Provide guidance and input on business unit restructure, workforce planning, and succession planning.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
The skills you will demonstrate
- Act as a culture ambassador by embodying and promoting a positive attitude and fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment. Positivity is key in interactions and engagements with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
- You will have experience working closely with leaders in a startup or scale-up environments (additional experience in a larger organization would be a bonus)
- You have solid knowledge of employee relations processes and relevant employment legislation (additional experience or knowledge of other countries would be advantageous)
- Experience managing and closing complex employee relations cases independently
- You are highly curious and collaborative, proactively seek out a range of opinions and perspectives, with the ability to build relationships and work effectively across teams and departments
- You have personal gravitas, you articulate your thought processes with conviction, back up your ideas with data & evidence, and don’t shy away from debating the best course of action for the business
- You are able to deal with ambiguity, tight timelines, and multiple competing priorities in a “start-up” type of environment
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and concisely.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- You must consistently be in the office during designated working hours to facilitate collaboration and ensure efficient communication with team members.
- Limited travel required; attendance at business-required events may be necessary, but travel is generally minimal and infrequent.
Benefits of Working with Sonar:
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 27 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
- We contribute 60% of the total cost for your pension; 13.5% to 15.5% of your base salary for savings; 2% for risk.
- Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
- Commuting:Sustainable mobility options, including carpooling and the refund of 60% of the annual transportation subscription.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
