<p>Job Summary:</p> <p>Xponential Fitness is the largest global franchisor of boutique health and wellness brands, including Club Pilates, Pure Barre, CycleBar, StretchLab, YogaSix, BFT, Rumble Boxing, and Lindora. The HR Business Partner will act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing expert HR guidance and driving people initiatives that support Xponential Fitness's enterprise-wide transformation. As the company undergoes significant organizational change including a new CEO, new leadership, restructuring, and system overhauls. This role is critical in ensuring alignment between business objectives and HR strategies.</p> <p>The HR Business Partner will be instrumental in developing leadership capabilities, managing workforce planning, driving cultural transformation, and fostering employee engagement in a fast-paced, evolving environment. This position requires deep HR expertise, the ability to navigate ambiguity, and experience working with senior leaders in high-growth, franchise-based, or multi-unit business models. This role will be supporting approximately 400 employees, enterprise-wide.</p> <p>Key Responsibilities:</p> <p>Leadership Development:</p> <ul> <li>Partner with senior leaders to assess leadership capabilities and implement targeted development programs. </li><li>Coach executives and managers to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team performance. </li><li>Facilitate leadership training sessions, executive coaching, and succession planning efforts. </li></ul> <p>Employee Relations:</p> <ul> <li>Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing guidance on complex employee relations issues, conflict resolution, and compliance matters. </li><li>Develop and implement best practices to foster a fair, transparent, and inclusive workplace. </li><li>Oversee investigations and ensure alignment with company values and employment laws. </li></ul> <p>Workforce Planning & Talent Planning:</p> <ul> <li>Lead workforce planning strategies to align talent needs with business growth and transformation. </li><li>Implement succession planning frameworks to ensure a strong leadership pipeline. </li><li>Help design a Talent Acquisition strategy to attract and retain high-caliber talent. </li><li>Develop headcount forecasting models to proactively plan for future talent needs, ensuring alignment with business growth and financial objectives. </li></ul> <p>People Analytics & Insights:</p> <ul> <li>Turn data into decisions. Act as a key interpreter of workforce data leveraging dashboards, reports, and predictive analytics to uncover actionable insights across critical dimensions such as turnover, internal mobility, productivity, DEI, engagement, and performance. </li><li>Diagnose organizational health by using qualitative and quantitative data to surface root causes of issues like attrition, burnout, skill gaps, or team inefficiencies enabling proactive, data-informed interventions. </li><li>Collaborate with business and HR leadership to define and track people-related KPIs that align with strategic business outcomes. Build and socialize dashboards that make data accessible, relevant, and actionable for key stakeholders. </li></ul> <p>Performance Management:</p> <ul> <li>Design and execute performance management processes that drive accountability, career growth, and high performance. </li><li>Partner with leaders to identify and address performance gaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives. </li><li>Leverage data and analytics to measure and improve performance outcomes. </li></ul> <p>Employee Engagement:</p> <ul> <li>Develop and implement engagement strategies to foster a positive and high-performing work environment. </li><li>Analyze engagement survey data and create action plans to enhance workplace satisfaction and productivity. </li><li>Drive initiatives that reinforce company culture, values, and employee experience. </li></ul> <p>Change Management:</p> <ul> <li>Lead HR-driven change initiatives, ensuring seamless execution of restructuring, new titles, new levels, and compensation structures. </li><li>Provide change management coaching to leaders and employees, promoting resilience and adaptability. </li><li>Develop communication and training programs to facilitate smooth transitions during organizational changes. </li></ul> <p>Total Rewards Partnership:</p> <ul> <li>Partner closely with the Total Rewards team to ensure alignment on compensation, benefits, and payroll initiatives. </li><li>Be well-versed in total rewards practices to provide guidance to business leaders and ensure competitive and equitable compensation structures. </li><li>Support the communication and implementation of new or revised total rewards programs. </li></ul> <p>Culture Champion:</p> <ul> <li>Serve as a champion for Xponential Fitness's evolving culture, embedding core values into all HR programs. </li><li>Partner with leadership to drive culture transformation initiatives that support the company's strategic direction. </li></ul> <p>What Success Looks Like:</p> <ul> <li>Senior leaders view HR as a valued, strategic business partner in decision-making and organizational growth. </li><li>Effective leadership development programs result in a strong internal leadership pipeline and reduced talent gaps. </li><li>Employee relations are proactively managed, fostering a workplace culture of trust, accountability, and inclusion. </li><li>Workforce planning and talent strategies align with business objectives, ensuring the right talent in the right roles at the right time. </li><li>Headcount forecasting and talent planning enable proactive decision-making and workforce scalability. </li><li>Performance management processes are embedded across the organization, driving high performance and career development. </li><li>High employee engagement and retention rates, with tangible improvements in employee experience and workplace satisfaction. </li><li>Successful execution of change management initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions during restructuring and organizational changes. </li><li>Xponential Fitness's culture evolves to align with business strategy while maintaining its core values. </li></ul> <p>Reporting Structure:</p> <ul> <li>Reports to the VP of People & Culture. </li><li>Provides mentorship and support to junior HR team members. </li></ul> <p>Work Environment & Location:</p> <ul> <li>Hybrid role based in Irvine, CA. (in office M-Th, Fridays WFH) </li></ul> <p>Benefits:</p> <ul> <li>Medical, Dental and Vision health benefits. </li><li>Ability to enroll in our Employee Stock Purchase Program </li><li>Monthly Cell Phone allowance </li><li>Traditional and Roth 401k plans. Employer match is 4% and starts matching at the beginning of year 2. Your 401k would be fully vested at the start of year 3. </li><li>Complimentary corporate memberships to XPLUS and XPASS & Calm Premium </li><li>Discounts on retail brand merchandise & other partnership perks! </li><li>Onsite fitness gym access, including full-service showers. </li><li>On Campus Amenities: Reborn Coffee Shop, Hangar 24, Mini Putting Green, Basketball Court, Bird Sanctuary, Car Washing Services (M/W), Dry Cleaning Services </li></ul> <p>Xponential Fitness LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.</p> <p>Qualifications</p> <p>Qualifications & Experience:</p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field. </li><li>8+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 5 years in a strategic HRBP role. </li><li>Experience in fitness, wellness, franchising, or multi-unit business models strongly preferred. </li><li>Proven expertise in workforce planning, leadership development, change management, and cultural transformation. </li><li>Strong knowledge of employment laws, HR best practices, and organizational development. </li></ul> <p>Skills & Competencies:</p> <ul> <li>Strategic mindset with a deep understanding of business operations and HR's impact. </li><li>Strong leadership, coaching and influencing skills at all levels of the organization. </li><li>Ability to thrive in an environment of ambiguity and rapid change. </li><li>Enthusiastic team player with a strong commitment to create a positive and engaging work environment. </li><li>Exceptional project management, problem-solving, communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills. </li><li>Passion for process improvement and working effectively and efficiently. </li><li>High proficiency in HR technology, analytics, and workforce planning tools. </li></ul>