Director, Talent Engagement

Position Description

Origis is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to serve as our Director, Talent Engagement. In this high-impact role, you'll be a trusted advisor, employee advocate, and strategic thought partner to our Managing Director of Talent & Culture and leaders across the organization.

This is an autonomous, individual-contributor role with a true player-coach feel: you'll help shape people strategy while also supporting day-to-day needs. You bring firsthand experience supporting field-based teams-and you know how to advocate for their needs from an office setting, with thoughtful, intentional time in the field as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on people strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, and talent priorities.
• Translate business goals into practical people plans that strengthen engagement, retention, and team effectiveness.
• Own employee relations for assigned groups, including performance concerns, workplace conflict, disciplinary action, and involuntary separations.
• Lead fair, thorough investigations; maintain clear documentation; identify trends; and partner with legal counsel as needed.
• Coach and equip managers to build strong, consistent people leadership practices.
• Support the full talent lifecycle, including onboarding, performance management, succession planning, development planning, and offboarding.
• Partner closely with field operations leaders to support a distributed technician workforce, balancing engagement, scheduling realities, safety culture, and compliance.
• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices; contribute to improving programs, processes, and tools.
• Stay current on employment law and advise on compliance, accommodations, leave, and compensation-related processes as needed.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant HR Business Partner experience.
• Experience supporting field technician or field services workforces, with an understanding of how to engage and support a distributed population.
• Deep employee relations expertise, including investigations and complex ER case management.
• Proven ability to advise senior leaders with credibility, candor, discretion, and strong business acumen.
• Working knowledge of employment law, particularly in Texas and California.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills across all levels of the organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the renewable energy sector (solar, wind, battery storage, or related) is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting a workforce in a scaling company (100-500 employees).
• PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP certification.
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms and comfort with people analytics.

Key Attributes for Success

You'll do your best work here if you are:

• A builder, not just a maintainer-you see gaps and create solutions.
• Comfortable in transformation-bringing a turnaround mindset, steady judgment, and forward momentum through change.
• You're as credible with executives as you are in a parking lot conversation with a field tech.

Location Austin, TX

Travel Up to 10% travel

Job Level Director