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# Senior HR Business Partner at PLACE Corporate Careers

- **Company:** PLACE Corporate Careers
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://place.com/corporate-careers/4730998005?gh_jid=4730998005

## Job description

Your Opportunity:

At PLACE, we're building a category-defining company at the intersection of real estate, technology, business services, and the consumer. As a profitable, hypergrowth startup, on the path to an IPO, our standards are high, our team is scrappy, and our commitment is to execute the best work of our lives.

This is YOUR CHANCE to shape the backbone of a company that's scaling rapidly and innovating boldly. As our Senior HR Business Partner for RE Team Employees, you'll partner with the VP of Human Resources, RE Team Owners, and RE Operations Team leaders to navigate a uniquely complex employee relations landscape — supporting W2 employees embedded within our independent operator partnerships — while also owning a functional area within our enterprise People Operations Center of Excellence, such as Engagement or Performance Management & Rewards. If you thrive in complexity, entrepreneurial problem-solving, and believe in scaling through tech and AI, this is your PLACE.

Who Develops You: VP of Human Resources

What You're Great At:

You're a seasoned HR professional with 7+ years of progressive experience and a strong concentration in employee relations — ideally with a background supporting franchise, agency, independent-contractor, or other distributed workforce models. You have deep skill managing complex, sensitive employee relations issues with professionalism, objectivity, and sound legal judgment, and a strong grasp of employment law and co-employment risk that lets you protect both the employee and PLACE as employer of record. You know how to influence without authority — coaching and guiding non-employee business owners on people practices even without direct organizational control over them. You're comfortable leading structured onboarding and orientation sessions, and you have a track record of coaching leaders and owners through conflict toward stronger engagement. You've built or governed a CoE-style program before — whether engagement, performance management, onboarding, or compliance — and you bring sharp analytical instincts, turning data into clear action plans. You communicate with excellence across audiences, building trust with both employees and independent operators alike, and you're comfortable exercising sound judgment and discretion in ambiguous situations. A PHR, SPHR, or equivalent certification is a strong plus, and familiarity with HRIS, engagement survey platforms, and reporting systems (ADP experience a bonus) rounds out your toolkit.

What You'll Do:

- Serve as the primary HR point of contact for W2 employees embedded in assigned RE Teams, providing guidance on policies, benefits, and workplace concerns
- Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues arising on RE Teams, conducting thorough, objective investigations even when day-to-day supervision comes from a non-PLACE Team Owner
- Design and roll out people-management tools and processes — performance frameworks, compensation models, and similar resources — to help RE Team Owners and RE Operations leaders lead effectively
- Coach and advise RE Team Owners on people practices, PLACE policy, and applicable employment law, clearly distinguishing which decisions must be made or approved by PLACE as the legal employer
- Partner closely with Legal on employee relations matters touching the operator-partnership structure, co-employment risk, and escalations requiring legal review
- Establish and maintain clear escalation protocols so RE Team Owners and employees know when and how to bring HR issues forward
- Coordinate with the Partner Success Onboarding team to support smooth transitions of new team employees onto Powered by PLACE Teams
- Conduct Operator Orientation for new RE Team Owners, introducing PLACE's people policies, employer-of-record responsibilities, and the escalation and support model
- Support onboarding, offboarding, leave administration, and employee changes for the RE Team W2 population alongside the broader People Operations team
- Coach leaders — including RE Team Owners, where appropriate — on impactful, legally sound performance and disciplinary conversations
- Partner with the VP of HR on policy interpretation and updates specific to the operator-partnership model
- Track and analyze employee relations trends across RE Teams to identify systemic issues and proactively address risk
- Own a Center of Excellence functional area (e.g., Engagement or Performance Management & Rewards) — building manager toolkits, driving enterprise-wide programs, and reporting on effectiveness to HR leadership

Salary: $100,000-$120,000/year based on experience

Why PLACE:

We believe people do their best work when they're trusted, supported, and surrounded by others who are equally driven. That's why this role includes a "work from the PLACE you work best" approach — and this particular role is fully remote, with availability during core PST business hours and travel to RE Team locations as needed to support employee relations matters. Although this is primarily a remote role, preference is given to candidates in the Austin, Texas area. Our competitive benefits include PTO as needed, comprehensive insurance coverage, a 401(k) match, stock option grants, and a stock purchase plan. Every team member is an owner, building the "PLACE" they are proud to call "my company."

## About PLACE Corporate Careers

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: PLACE is an end-to-end real estate technology and business services platform that powers top-producing real estate teams across North America.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Bellingham, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Real Estate Technology (PropTech)
- Target customers: Top-tier real estate agents and teams (B2B), and consumers buying, selling, and maintaining homes (B2C)
- Mission statement: "Delivering the dream of homeownership everywhere" by putting the most informed, most empowered real estate professional at the center of the experience.

## Products & Services
- **PLACE Platform (Agent-Facing)**: A proprietary technology and business services suite that offloads up to 75% of agents' operational tasks (accounting, HR, legal, marketing, talent acquisition, coaching). It is brokerage-agnostic, meaning it works with any brokerage.
- **Consumer Services Suite**: A one-stop shop for consumers that streamlines buying, selling, maintaining, and investing in properties. Includes in-house mortgage brokers, title and escrow services, an insurance portal, and a home improvement network referral system.
- **Brivity**: A CRM and marketing automation platform acquired by PLACE to support agent workflows.
- **Remine**: A real estate data and analytics platform acquired by PLACE in April 2025.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Annual Revenue**: USD $85,000,000 (latest available)
- **Total Funding**: USD $100,000,000 (Series A, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, November 2021)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs Asset Management (lead investor)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Employee headcount of approximately 350 people (+24% year-over-year)
    - Presence in 100+ locations across the United States and Canada
    - Acquisitions of Livian (Sept 2024) and Remine (April 2025) for $1.5M
    - Expanding into mortgage, title, insurance, and home improvement services

## Competitive Advantages
- **Brokerage Agnostic**: Unlike many PropTech companies that tie agents to a single brokerage, PLACE works with leading teams regardless of their brokerage affiliation, solving a major pain point for top talent.
- **Operational Offloading**: The platform handles back-office tasks (HR, accounting, legal, marketing) that are notoriously difficult for independent agents, allowing them to focus on client relationships.
- **All-in-One Ecosystem**: PLACE is building a vertically integrated consumer experience (mortgage, title, insurance, home improvement) that creates a "one-stop shop" and deepens the agent-to-consumer relationship.
- **Founder Expertise**: Founders Ben Kinney and Chris Suarez have built some of the most successful real estate organizations in the industry, giving the company deep domain credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Vertical Integration**: Expanding the consumer services model to include mortgage, title, escrow, insurance, and home improvement referral networks to capture more of the real estate transaction lifecycle.
- **Platform Expansion**: Deepening integrations across all stakeholders (agents, loan officers, title partners, inspectors, service providers) to create a unified homeownership experience.
- **Data & AI**: Recent hiring for a Senior Product Manager, AI & Data, and the acquisition of Remine (data analytics) signals a push toward data-driven tools for agents and consumers.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Active recruiting for both corporate HQ roles and on behalf of partner teams across the US.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: PLACE emphasizes a "Win Make Give" philosophy, a strong focus on teamwork, and a mission-driven approach to changing the real estate industry. The company has a high employer rating of 4.8/5.0 on LinkedIn (100 reviews), with particularly strong scores for Culture (4.9) and Work-Life Balance (4.8).
- **Benefits & Perks**:
    - Flexible paid time off and 9 paid holidays
    - Company-subsidized health, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance
    - 401(k) program
    - Wealth-building and goal-setting curriculum
    - Real estate license sponsorship (opens doors to investing, savings, and referral income)
    - Partnership with 60+ nonprofits and a company 501(c)(3), "A Giving PLACE"
- **Work Policy**: The company is headquartered in Bellingham, WA, but has roles across the US and Canada. Specific roles may be remote, hybrid, or in-office; job postings should be checked for details.
- **Engineering/Product Culture**: The company is actively hiring for product management (AI & Data, Point of Sale), technical delivery, and engineering roles, suggesting a growing tech team working on modernizing real estate infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [place.com - About PLACE](https://place.com/about-place/)
2. [place.com - Corporate Careers](https://place.com/corporate-careers/)
3. [LinkedIn - PLACE Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/placeinc)
4. [Indeed - PLACE Careers & Employment](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Place-cde9ce21)

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