Senior People Partner
Toyota Research InstituteLos Altos, California
Full Time
Posted February 12, 2026
$148k - $222k
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Job Description
The Senior People Partner at Toyota Research Institute supports the organization's mission by partnering with leadership and managers to foster strong leadership, healthy teams, and organizational effectiveness in a research-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders and managers to enable strong leadership and organizational effectiveness
- Support the development and implementation of people programs that promote innovation, inclusion, and impact
- Provide strategic and hands-on HR support to a research-oriented, mission-driven organization
Requirements
- Experience serving as a strategic and hands-on People leader, partnering closely with senior leaders, people managers, and the broader People team to enable strong leadership, healthy teams, and organizational effectiveness.
- Ability to support a mission-driven, research-oriented organization.
- Experience working in a research-oriented environment or with mission-driven organizations (implied by supporting a research-oriented organization).
- Demonstrated ability to partner across an organization to ensure that people programs enable innovation, inclusion, and impact.
- Experience working in a collaborative, curious, and values-driven environment.
- Knowledge of and experience with developing and implementing people programs that support organizational goals.
- Ability to support and enable organizational leadership and healthy teams.
- Experience working with senior leaders and people managers to promote organizational effectiveness.
- Understanding of employment laws and regulations relevant to the role, including compliance with laws such as the Massachusetts law regarding lie detector tests and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- Ability to support diversity and inclusion initiatives, fostering an inclusive environment.
- Experience working with or knowledge of benefits administration, including medical, dental, vision insurance, and paid time off benefits (implied by supporting the organization’s benefits offerings).
- Educational background or experience relevant to HR, organizational development, or related fields (implied, as the role is senior and strategic).
Benefits & Perks
Salary range between 148,000 and 222,000 per year for California-based roles
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Paid time off including holiday pay and sick time
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