About Opendoor
At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.

About Opendoor
At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.

About The Role
At Opendoor we're tilting the world in favor of homeowners. We ship every week, test in the open, and judge our work by one thing: whether homeowners end up better off. We're hiring a Director-level People Business Partner to operate as a business leader on the company's most critical teams — using AI and data to drive execution, insight, and speed. This role exists to raise the bar, increase talent density, and make the org stronger every week — so leaders execute faster and better. This is not a traditional HR role. This is a high-judgment, high-trust operator role.

What You'll Do




This role has five core product areas. Each has customers, outcomes, and measurable results.

Org Effectiveness

Diagnose structural gaps before they become hiring or performance problems

Model team design options with tradeoffs across headcount, span, layers, and role clarity

Own workforce planning as a live model, not a once-a-year exercise

Surface org health signals proactively using data

Talent & Performance

Drive calibration with rigor — differentiate performance with clarity and conviction, hold the bar

Own talent development for high-potential leaders and drive decisive action on performance gaps

Run performance conversations as a coach to the manager, not a mediator

Lead with attrition rates, performance distributions, hiring velocity, and org spans — not anecdotes

Leader Effectiveness

Be the thinking partner executives actually call — not the one they CC on HR issues

Push back on leaders when their instinct is wrong — frame it as tradeoffs, not policy

Provide direct, honest feedback and help leaders drive accountability through change

People Product GTM

Own adoption of People initiatives within your client group

Build a GTM plan for every People product launch: target user, narrative, rollout sequence,



success metrics

Track adoption metrics post-launch and redesign where needed

Build People Systems for Humans and Agents

Design People workflows and systems with both humans and agents as users — and ship them that way

Build and ship AI-powered workflows across performance management, workforce planning, talent insights, and decision support

Use AI to accelerate every workflow — draft comms, synthesize data, model org options, prep for meetings

Identify opportunities to automate anything that doesn't require judgment

What You'll Need

10+ years of operating experience, ideally including time in People, strategy, product, or consulting roles at high-growth technology companies

Proven strategic partner to senior leaders in quick-moving, ambiguous environments

Strong operator mindset — you understand how companies are built, scaled, and corrected

High judgment and comfort navigating complex talent and performance decisions

Analytical rigor — you default to data to drive decisions

Fluent in AI and automation — and uses both daily to do the work, not just to talk about it

Direct, low-ego, high-candor communication style

Bias toward action, speed, and simplicity

Location
Toronto, ON We're looking for candidates who are enthusiastic about an in-office culture — people who want to build alongside their teammates, not from a distance. This role is based at our Toronto office (468 King St W), 4 days a week. Relocation assistance is available for candidates moving to Toronto.

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📌 Director, People Business Partner (Ontario)
🏢 Opendoor
📍 Ontario