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• Overview

  Social Innovation Lab is hiring a HR Business Partner in Madison, WI.

• Role description

  Join a business team that values curiosity and rigor as Social Innovation Lab's newest HR Business Partner in Madison, WI. The mid-level HR Business Partner role rewards range — Interviewing, Competency Mapping, 3 years — with $63,000 - $90,000 and a seat that grows beyond it.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption of new tools and systems across the organization
  • Rebuild a target that the WI team stopped believing in
  • Draft the business case that gets an empathy-led initiative funded past committee
  • Shape the 3-year strategy without turning it into a slide museum
  • Own the math behind every HR Business Partner promise made to a customer
  • Define success metrics for business programs and report on outcomes
  • Establish reporting cadences that give stakeholders timely visibility
  • Evaluate new initiatives through rigorous business cases and ROI analysis

  What You'll Bring

  • Calm under the high-energy chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
  • A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English
  • Sharp organizational skills and an ability to juggle multiple workstreams
  • Demonstrated calm when a Madison, WI client changes scope mid-stream
  • Comfort steering business conversations toward a decision

  Social Innovation Lab doesn't sell business so much as guarantee it, a craft-focused distinction the Madison, WI team takes personally. We'd rather hear hard truths in the hallway than polite fictions in the all-hands.

  Picture $63,000 - $90,000 as the floor, not the ceiling, with growth coaching and a benefits package that actually flexes around your life.

  Currently hiring in Madison, WI, with a fresh listing as of today.

  Think you have what it takes? apply now and start the conversation.

• Required skills

  • Competency Mapping
  • Benefits Administration
  • Compensation Benchmarking
  • SHRM-CP
  • FMLA Administration
  • Interviewing
  • Persuasion
  • Initiative

• Benefits & perks

  • Pet-friendly office
  • Phone Allowance
  • Lifestyle spending account
  • Dependent care FSA
  • Hybrid Work
  • Travel Allowance
  • Recreation Area
  • Tax preparation assistance
  • Coworking space allowance
  • Fertility benefits and IVF coverage
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Service anniversary awards
  • Phased retirement options

• Apply before 2026-08-08

  Submit your application for this Remote business position.