Human Resource Business Partner

The posting, as Monks wrote it

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This role is HYBRID and will require scheduled days at our office: 8559 Higuera St, Culver City, CA 90232

About the Role

HR Business Partner

We’re looking for a Strategic HR Business Partner to join our People team and partner with our North American business at a pivotal time of growth and evolution. The advertising and media landscape is changing quickly. Our clients are changing. Our capabilities are changing. And the way talented people want to work is changing, too.

That creates an exciting opportunity for HR to be more than a support function.

This isn’t an HR role that sits on the sidelines. You’ll be in the room with agency leaders , helping shape decisions about talent, teams, culture, performance, organizational design, and the future of our business.

You’ll work across a fast-moving advertising and media environment where creativity, collaboration, client demands, and commercial priorities intersect every day. You’ll need to be comfortable moving between big-picture strategy and the realities of helping leaders solve people challenges today.

We’re looking for someone who brings strong HR expertise, commercial curiosity, sound judgment, and the confidence to challenge leaders when it matters.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Do

Be a strategic partner to the business

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and become a go-to advisor on people and organizational matters.
• Understand our business, clients, talent, and commercial priorities — and translate that understanding into smart people strategies.
• Bring an objective, thoughtful HR perspective to business decisions.
• Anticipate talent and organizational challenges rather than waiting for them to become problems.
• Use people data and business insights to identify trends, opportunities, and risks.

Help leaders build high-performing teams

• Coach leaders on performance, feedback, development, team dynamics, and leadership effectiveness.
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, and other strategic talent initiatives.
• Partner with leaders on organizational design, team structures, roles, and capabilities as the business evolves.
• Help identify and develop high-potential and critical talent.
• Raise the bar on leadership accountability and people management.

Shape our employee experience and culture

• Help create an environment where talented people can do their best work and build meaningful careers.
• Partner with leaders on engagement,

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Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc, where our culture centers on how we show up for the work and for one another. That begins with the commitment to strive for mastery—taking deep pride in our craft and creating work that sets the bar. In everyday execution, we drive momentum by choosing bold action rather than waiting for certainty. Above all, our teams are stronger together, bringing diverse perspectives into a unified team that communicates with clarity, trust, and mutual respect.

This commitment to craft and innovation translates directly into widespread industry acclaim: Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services and a leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Digital Marketing Agencies. It ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization (2025), Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2026 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in the Human-Machine Interaction Team category. Additionally, Monks.Flow earned AI-based Marketing Solution of the Year at the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards and a 2026 Global Generative AI Award in the Agentic Marketing Innovation category. Finally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.