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…