Human Resources Business Partner

HR Business Partner – Corporate

• Location: Ashburn, VA (Hybrid)
• Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt
• Travel: Up to 20% across the US and Canada
• Salary Range: $90,000–$99,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications

Bring your leadership, compliance expertise, and heart for people to a high-impact HR role at the center of a growing hospitality brand.

We’re looking for a hands-on, strategic HR Business Partner to support our Support Center and management-level employees across the employee life cycle. Internally titled People Leader, Corporate, this position plays a key role in driving HR initiatives with consistency, care, and a people-first mindset. If you thrive in fast-paced, high-accountability environments and can drive scalable, compliant people processes with empathy and excellence—this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with leaders to manage pre-boarding, onboarding, and offboarding
• Facilitate new hire orientation and employee recognition programming
• Maintain digital headcount tracking and org charts in real time
• Lead or support employee leave, relocation, and accommodation coordination
• Act as point of contact for employee relations activities and policy clarification
• Maintain and enhance People Team content and internal communications
• Educate teams on people processes, HR systems, and compliance expectations
• Monitor anonymous reporting systems and help bring issues to resolution
• Build and reinforce a culture of ethics, inclusion, and high performance

What You Bring

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Employment Law, or related field
• Minimum 5 years of HR experience in a similar position
• Expertise in US federal, state, and local employment laws
• High attention to detail and experience with corporate employment processes
• Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Teams, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills across all levels
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
• Strong project management and organizational abilities

Preferred:

• Experience in hospitality, food & beverage, or airport-related industry
• Proven success supporting both digital and physical HR environments
• Experience coordinating onboarding/offboarding for corporate roles

Desirable:

• Canadian employment law knowledge
• HR certification (PHR, SHRM-CP, or similar)
• Experience maintaining internal intranet/HR knowledge bases
• Background supporting hybrid or remote-first workplaces
• Bilingual or multilingual communication skills

You’ll Excel If You…

• Love structure, but can adapt to change
• Have a service mindset and a compliance brain
• Are excited by the opportunity to help shape policy and scale best practices
• Understand the value of ethical leadership in a people-first company

This is more than an HR role—it’s a chance to build the people systems that power a mission-driven, hospitality-focused company. Reporting to the VP, People – Corporate, you’ll be at the center of it all.

Ready to lead with purpose? Apply now and help us build something great.

SSP America is an equal opportunity employer. All decisions concerning the employment relationship will be made without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, age, disability, genetic information, or and other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. SSP America will provide reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws.