HR Business Partner

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About Gembah
Gembah is a rapidly growing venture funded company on a mission to democratize product innovation, and enable a whole new breed of creators and entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into reality.  We are democratizing and demystifying the product creation process by helping entrepreneurs, e-commerce sellers and small-to-midsize businesses research, design, and manufacture new consumer products.  

Gembah’s platform and marketplace connects creators with a global network of designers, engineers, and supply chain specialists and oversees production at factories in China, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and South America. Leveraging best practices workflows built into our platform, we help orchestrate the collaboration between all these resources to help our customers create new products better, faster, and cheaper than ever before.

Founded on the belief that humans are natural creators, the company’s goal is to empower creators anywhere and make product development accessible to anyone. 

Job Description

We know that the only way to realize our vision is to build one of the best places to work to attract and retain the most talented professionals in the industry. We’re already off to a good start with a team of 50+ here in the US and smaller teams in several other countries, and an exciting evolving global culture. We’re ambitious and hardworking, but we also embrace the fun and value a healthy work life balance. We are looking for a top notch human resources professional to help us manage our growth and take a leadership role in building a category leading company where the best people in the world want to work and build their careers. 

We are looking for a self-starter that will naturally and quickly build relationships with managers and employees to assess needs, and help develop processes and solutions for recruiting and onboarding, career and organizational development, coaching and learning, employee relations, and other HR processes as required to meet the business goals.

This position will report directly to the CEO of the company. 

Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition/Employment:

  • Manage full life cycle recruitment for all positions including sourcing high quality candidates and building talent pools for critical roles
  • Manage onboarding process for new hires

Employee Relations and Culture:

  • Manage employee relations at various levels of the organization and resolve employee relation issues in a professional and timely manner
  • Partner with employees and management to communicate and maintain various Human Resources policies, procedures and initiatives
  • Identify improvement opportunities, tailor solutions and facilitate initiatives to foster engagement

Performance Management:

  • Manage annual performance review process for departments and oversee merit process for employees within those departments
  • Continuously gather and analyze compensation data and make recommendations to managers regarding market compensation

Training and Development:

  • Collaborate with managers to assess, develop and deliver employee training presentations related to interviewing skills, performance reviews, management training, and other areas as necessary
  • Identify areas of growth, new initiatives and champion a learning culture

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Business or related discipline
  • 5+ years of corporate recruiting/HRBP experience, preferably in a tech related industry
  • Strong employee relations and performance management experience
  • Experience with large scale, fast paced teams
  • Knowledge and experience with Applicant Tracking Systems
  • High integrity, Excellent judgment and discretion
  • Strong organizational and project management skills
  • Ability to work effectively in a highly confidential, fast-paced environment and solve complex problems
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do – from recruiting, to operations to fostering safe and respectful workplaces that encourage collaboration. Our culture is based on principles of respect, inclusion, and fair treatment and we welcome anyone into our family without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Compensation

  • Annual Salary + Bonus
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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • Product
    • JavaLanguages
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
    • IllustratorDesign
    • InVisionDesign
    • SketchDesign
    • SolidWorksDesign
    • TrelloManagement

Location

Gembah is located in an office community of creatives in the eclectic East Side of Downtown Austin, next to restaurants, bars, Brew&Brew & Whole Foods

An Insider's view of Gembah

How does your team reward individual success?

Everyone at Gembah is quick to celebrate individual successes, from all levels of the company. Formal recognition is given at company all-hands, shout-outs are always present during meetings large and small, and there is a lot of appreciation expressed on a daily basis within and across teams. You definitely feel the love here!

Phinam

Sr Software Engineer

What does your typical day look like?

Each day is completely different. Some days are spent working internally to improve the team’s operations and other days are spent talking to clients all day about project updates. Some days are just spent solving problems and creating solutions - never a dull week!

Arwa

Design Project Manager

What are some things you learned at the company?

I've learned more in the last seven months than I have at any job I've worked. Every single person at this company has had to prove themselves to be a very quick learner in order to keep up with the pace of things in this crazy and complex industry. The collaboration with other teams, process building, and constant feedback drive a lot of learning!

Ben

Account Executive

What is your vision for the company?

Human beings are creators by nature. It’s what separates us from all the other species on the planet. Gembah's mission is to bring that power back to creators and innovators anywhere, and truly democratize product innovation. Everyday our awesome customers are bringing us new exciting product ideas that we help them bring to life!

CEO and Co-founder

CEO and Co-founder

What are some social events your company does?

Gembah is an extremely social company; there’s not a single person I wouldn’t want to be friends with outside of work. We go to happy hours, dinners, cooking classes, axe throwing, etc. If it’s fun, chances are we’ll go at some point. This company really does feel like a family

Ryan

Account Manager

What are Gembah Perks + Benefits

Gembah Benefits Overview

We provide a flexible and truly global diverse work environment. Our US team works directly with our teams in China, Mexico, India and Vietnam. We recognize holidays from all our offices and celebrate our diverse cultures. We celebrate diversity and work actively to build a diverse and inclusive company and society.
We're very passionate about our mission to democratize product innovation, and enable people of all walks of life, anywhere in the world, to bring their product ideas into reality, and achieve financial independence by building their own product business.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We select nonprofits every quarter and then organize our employees to help with different events or tasks as needed.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Flexible work schedule
We allow our employees to work remotely and the hours that fit them the best as long as it does nto negstively impact their team or the company overall.
Remote work program
More than half of our team work outside of Austin, and in Austin have a flexible office policy. Everyone is welcome to work in to the office whenever they want, but nobody is required to.
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Diversity manifesto
Mean gender pay gap below 10%
Diversity employee resource groups
We are part of Recode The Quo, a local organization that is focused on helping technology startups build an internal playbook for diversity and inclusion.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
We actively seek out diverse candidates and strive to hire diverse whenever possible. Out of our close to 100 people, 48% are non-white, and 31% are female.
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Our benefits options include HSA and FSA options.
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
All employees participate in our stock option incentive plan. At Gembah we see everyone as an integral part of our success so everyone should share in the financial success of the company.
Performance bonus
Gembah offers performance based compensation for employees that meet and exceed their metrics
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We have a no policy PTO policy. We trust our employees to manage their time off so that it doesn't negatively impact their team and the company overall. The same is true for our parental leave policy.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
We offer paid sick days for up to two weeks per year for all employees.
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Gembah hosts at least 1 company outing per year
Free snacks and drinks
Unlimited Snacks and Coffee
Company-sponsored happy hours
We organize happy hours several times per quarter at some cool spot that allow us to socialize and where everyone feels welcome, whether they drink alcohol or not.
Onsite office parking
Pet friendly
We allow our employees to bring their pets to work as long as they can manage them and ensure it's not a negative impact on other employees.
Home-office stipend for remote employees
We pay for employees to set up their at home office and pay for reasonable expenses associated with that.
Professional Development Benefits
Promote from within

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