What are the responsibilities and job description for the People Business Partner position at Fanatics?
Job Description
About the Role:
Are you ready to play a key role in shaping the workplace experience at one of the most dynamic sports betting and gaming companies around? We’re looking for a People Business Partner to join our People Business Partner (PBP) team.
In this role, you’ll be based out of our Denver office at least 3 days a week, reporting to a Sr. Director supporting multiple, global client groups with a focus on our non-exempt workforce. You’ll drive positive employee relations and ensure a fun, competitive, and inclusive environment where everyone feels like a winner. You’ll partner with people managers across the business to provide strategic guidance, resolve employee issues, and design programs that make a real impact.
This is a role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and has a passion for making the employee experience radically easy, exciting, and seamless. We want someone who demonstrates strong initiative and is comfortable working with minimal guidance; this individual knows how to tackle tough challenges head-on, always with empathy and a focus on getting the details right. If you have the drive to make things happen and want to be part of a team that sets new standards, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off and other benefits like Wellhub, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About The Team
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates nineteen retail locations including retail sportsbooks outside of Progressive Field and Nationwide Arena and the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Commanders Field. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver and Dublin, Ireland.
About the Role:
Are you ready to play a key role in shaping the workplace experience at one of the most dynamic sports betting and gaming companies around? We’re looking for a People Business Partner to join our People Business Partner (PBP) team.
In this role, you’ll be based out of our Denver office at least 3 days a week, reporting to a Sr. Director supporting multiple, global client groups with a focus on our non-exempt workforce. You’ll drive positive employee relations and ensure a fun, competitive, and inclusive environment where everyone feels like a winner. You’ll partner with people managers across the business to provide strategic guidance, resolve employee issues, and design programs that make a real impact.
This is a role for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-pressure environments and has a passion for making the employee experience radically easy, exciting, and seamless. We want someone who demonstrates strong initiative and is comfortable working with minimal guidance; this individual knows how to tackle tough challenges head-on, always with empathy and a focus on getting the details right. If you have the drive to make things happen and want to be part of a team that sets new standards, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Employee Support: Provide one-on-one coaching, conflict resolution, and guidance to employees at all levels, ensuring they have an experience that’s simple, effective, and even a little fun. Whether it’s handling a challenging situation or just giving a team member the tools to succeed, you’ll be there to support them with empathetic performance management and precision.
- Crisis Management & ER Support: Be the go-to person for handling sensitive and urgent employee relations issues. You’ll work quickly and decisively to de-escalate conflicts, resolve issues, and partner with senior leaders and legal counsel to make sure things stay on track.
- Investigations & Compliance: Lead sensitive investigations into harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and other workplace concerns. With your sharp eye for detail and commitment to fairness, you’ll work closely with leadership, legal, and HR teams to ensure timely resolutions and strict compliance with company policies and regulations.
- Program Design & Improvement: Dig into the data, analyze employee feedback, and make recommendations to create new and/or refine our people programs, policies, and practices. You'll focus on fostering a high-performance culture where employees are empowered and engaged. Constantly improving and innovating is key.
- Be a Trusted Advisor: Build strong, trust-based relationships with business leaders, including a large focus on coaching and guiding leaders who are new to people management. Collaborate with People Business Partners and other teams to address employee concerns, and proactively identify opportunities to improve business outcomes.
- Make Us Better: Find solutions to improve employee relations, engagement, and performance, working across the People team and the broader business as needed. You’ll implement scalable practices that drive positive change and help us keep pace with the fast-moving nature of our industry.
- Required Experience: Minimum 4 years in an HR partnership or employee relations role, ideally in fast-paced environments like distribution/call centers, retail, or tech. Proven expertise in conflict resolution, investigations, workplace accommodations and creating solutions to tough people challenges.
- Additional Experience: Minimum of 2 years leading investigations and employee relations initiatives, with the ability to influence and build strong relationships at various levels of the organization, ideally in a distributed workforce.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Skills: Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and the ability to think critically and solve problems on the fly. You’ll be a trusted advisor to business leaders, so influencing decisions and managing multiple priorities is essential.
- Characteristics: Team-oriented, collaborative, proactive, empathetic and intuitive.
- Legal & Compliance Knowledge: A strong grasp of employment law and the ability to apply company policies and best practices to complex workplace situations.
- Travel: Open to regular travel to events and other Fanatics offices for various offsite and team meetings.
In addition to the base, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off and other benefits like Wellhub, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
About Us
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About The Team
Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics Holdings Inc., a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to nearly 93% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. in the following states: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates nineteen retail locations including retail sportsbooks outside of Progressive Field and Nationwide Arena and the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Commanders Field. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver and Dublin, Ireland.
Salary : $77,000 - $111,000
