Full-Time

People Business Partner Director

Restaurant365

Restaurant365

1,001-5,000 employees

Restaurant management software for accounting

Compensation Overview

$160k - $195k/yr

+ Equity Option Grant

Akron, OH, USA + 2 more

More locations: Austin, TX, USA | Irvine, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
People & HR
Required Skills
Workday HRIS
Human Resources Information System (HRIS)
Risk Management
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • 12–15+ years progressive Human Resources/People experience, with significant time as a strategic HR/People Business Partner supporting senior leaders in matrixed, high-growth organizations; experience in SaaS and/or pre-IPO environments strongly preferred.
  • 5+ years of people leadership experience, including directly managing and developing HR/People Business Partner teams and/or HR centers of expertise.
  • Proven success building and scaling HRBP/PBP processes, operating models, and best practices that improve effectiveness, consistency, and business impact.
  • Strong experience partnering with executives on workforce planning, organization design, leadership effectiveness, talent strategy, performance management, and organizational change.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate as both a strategic leader and hands-on business partner, with a willingness to step in directly where needed.
  • Strong employee relations capability and sound judgment in managing sensitive and complex people matters.
  • Experience partnering on compensation matters, including market alignment, promotions, and variable or sales incentive plans.
  • Strong analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to shape recommendations and decisions.
  • Demonstrated experience using AI, automation, and digital tools to improve HR workflows, efficiency, and quality of work.
  • Strong understanding of employment law, HR practices, and risk management principles.
  • Excellent communication, coaching, and executive presence with the ability to influence leaders at all levels.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • SPHR, SHRM-SCP, or similar certification preferred.
  • Proficiency with Workday, HRIS tools, Microsoft Office, people analytics/reporting tools, and AI-enabled productivity platforms.
  • Ability to travel up to ~10–15% based on business needs (e.g., key leadership meetings, onsite support for major changes, Mexico office visits).
Responsibilities
  • Lead, coach, and develop the People Business Partner team, setting clear expectations, priorities, and service standards.
  • Build, refine, and operationalize the PBP model, including core processes, playbooks, tools, templates, and best practices that improve consistency, quality, and scale.
  • Establish team operating rhythms for workforce planning, talent reviews, organizational changes, performance cycles, and executive partnership.
  • Guide PBPs on complex business, talent, and employee matters while elevating overall capability, judgment, and partnership across the team.
  • Partner across the People Team to ensure strong alignment among PBPs, People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Learning & Experience, and Legal.
  • Serve as the strategic People advisor to assigned executives and senior leaders, translating business priorities into practical people strategies and actions.
  • Roll up sleeves to directly support executive leaders and client groups as needed, particularly during business-critical moments, leadership transitions, restructures, or gaps in coverage.
  • Use strong business acumen, data, and judgment to advise on organizational effectiveness, talent needs, team design, leadership capability, and employee experience.
  • Build trusted relationships with leaders and provide direct, thoughtful coaching on performance, leadership, team health, and change.
  • Lead workforce planning efforts with leaders and FP&A to align headcount, capabilities, and organizational structure with company strategy and budgets.
  • Partner on organization design, role clarity, leveling, job architecture, and position management to support growth, efficiency, and scale.
  • Drive talent management processes including performance reviews, talent assessment, succession planning, leadership development, and career growth.
  • Partner with leaders to identify organizational risks, capability gaps, retention concerns, and development priorities, and turn those insights into action.
  • Support global and evolving business needs, including organizational changes tied to new functions, international growth, or Mexico operations, as applicable.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex and sensitive employee relations matters, balancing business needs, employee experience, and risk.
  • Guide leaders and PBPs on investigations, performance matters, corrective action, leaves, accommodations, policy interpretation, and sensitive employment decisions.
  • Ensure People practices and decisions align with company policy and applicable employment laws and are applied thoughtfully and consistently.
  • Lead the people side of change initiatives, restructures, leadership transitions, and process improvements with clear communication and sound change management.
  • Leverage Workday, people analytics, AI, and automation tools to improve insight, speed, and consistency in HR business partnering work.
  • Identify repeatable workflows that can be simplified, standardized, or automated across the PBP model, including reporting, documentation, communications, and knowledge management.
  • Define and monitor key people metrics to inform decisions and measure impact across talent, organization, and workforce outcomes.
  • Sets and ensures responsible use of AI and automation in HR workflows with guardrails and appropriate attention to privacy, data quality, bias mitigation, and good judgment in alignment with R365 AI guidelines.
Desired Qualifications
  • HR Knowledge and Expertise – Deep, current understanding of HR/People practices and employment law, and when to bring in specialists.
  • Strategic Business Acumen – Connects People strategy to business priorities, SaaS metrics, and financial outcomes.
  • Customer Focus & Stakeholder Partnership – Anticipates leader and employee needs; delivers practical solutions and high-quality partnership.
  • Analytical & Critical Thinking – Uses data, insight, and systems perspective to diagnose problems and design sustainable solutions.
  • Builds Relationships, Trust & Credibility – Seen as a trusted advisor who can give honest, direct feedback that leaders act on.
  • Social Agility & Influence – Navigates complex, matrixed environments and drives alignment across diverse stakeholders.
  • Collaborative & Inclusive – Champions inclusion, psychological safety, and diverse perspectives in decision-making.
  • Change Leadership & Organizational Design – Leads through ambiguity and complexity; designs structures and processes that enable growth.
  • Effective Communicator & Coach – Communicates with clarity and empathy; coaches leaders and PBPs to higher performance.
  • Digital Fluency, AI & Automation – Comfortably adopts, experiments with, and scales digital, AI, and automation tools in HR workflows while ensuring responsible, ethical, and inclusive use.
  • Proactive & Results-Driven – Takes initiative, drives accountability, and delivers measurable outcomes for the business and employees.

Restaurant365 provides a subscription-based cloud software platform for restaurant management. It unites core operations like accounting, inventory, labor, and scheduling into one system for restaurants ranging from a single location to large franchises. The platform automatically pulls detailed sales and labor data from the POS system to generate daily accrual journal entries for the general ledger, helping save time and improve accuracy. It also offers real-time performance tracking and administrative streamlining across the employee lifecycle (hiring to payroll), allowing managers to focus on guest experiences. Franchisees can benchmark against other locations and the company to gauge performance and identify what works. The company has a large partner ecosystem with over 400 vendors and technology partners to extend functionality. Its goal is to help restaurants run more efficiently, make data-driven decisions, and scale their operations across locations.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Venture Capital)

Total Funding

$437.5M

Headquarters

Irvine, California

Founded

2011

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • $175M ICONIQ-led funding in May 2024 fuels product innovation and acquisitions.
  • ExpandShare acquisition adds AI training tools boosting guest satisfaction metrics.
  • New CPO Steve Demchuk drives enterprise multi-location benchmarking features.

What critics are saying

  • Toast's integrated back-office suite steals customers via seamless POS bundling now.
  • HotSchedules free tier undercuts $469/month pricing in SMB segment immediately.
  • EU AI Act fines up to 6% revenue hit R365 AI scheduling by November 2026.

What makes Restaurant365 unique

  • Restaurant365 unifies accounting, inventory, labor, payroll in single AI-powered cloud platform.
  • R365 AI delivers natural-language dashboards and 15% labor forecast accuracy gains.
  • Deep Toast POS integration pulls sales data for automated daily GL entries.

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Unlimited Paid Time Off

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1%

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Techable(テッカブル)
Jul 12th, 2024
Restaurant365 raises $175M for DX platform

Restaurant365, a California-based all-in-one management platform for the restaurant industry, announced a $175 million funding round in May. This follows their $135 million raise last year, solidifying their unicorn status with a valuation over $1 billion. At the NRA Show, R365 introduced new features like "Employee Training" and "Task Management." The funding was led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from KKR and L Catterton. R365's growth is attributed to its integration with Toast's platform.

PR Newswire
May 15th, 2024
Restaurant365 Secures $175M Led by ICONIQ

Restaurant365 announced a $175 million funding round led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from KKR and L Catterton. The funds will support sales growth, product innovation, and acquisitions. This follows 12 consecutive quarters of exceeding sales targets. The investment will expand enterprise features, grow the workforce and payroll product suite, and strengthen the balance sheet for future acquisitions. This round follows the acquisition of ExpandShare, an AI-powered learning management system.

Networld Media Group
Apr 9th, 2024
Restaurant365 acquires ExpandShare

Restaurant365, an all-in-one restaurant enterprise management platform, has finalized the acquisition of ExpandShare, a learning-management system built for restaurants to deliver and track training content quickly and easily across platforms. "Guest satisfaction is paramount to restaurant success, and the main…

Bharat Express
May 19th, 2023
Cloud-based Restaurant365 achieves unicorn status after $135 million funding round - THE BHARAT EXPRESS NEWS

(Reuters) - US cloud-based restaurant manager Restaurant365 has become a 'unicorn' following a $135 million funding round, the company said on Friday.

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