People Business Partner (W/M)
Believe
Company Description
Before TuneCore, artists needed to be signed to a record label to sell their music online. In 2006, we democratized the industry by partnering directly with digital stores and streaming platforms to enable any musician to sell their songs worldwide while owning 100% of their music. Today, TuneCore is the leading music digital distribution service for independent artists worldwide and headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, TuneCore is owned by Paris-based, global digital music company Believe. The company is one of the fastest growing companies in the music industry and is actively investing in the continued growth of the business.
We have made it our mission to best serve artists and labels at each stage of their development in the digital world. We are a company who cares deeply about our people and our creator community, advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion across all of our platforms and throughout our business. Innovation inspires and pushes us to work hard for our artists, while collaboration drives the way we work; as well as how we approach our company’s social responsibility.
Join TuneCore as we embark on the next phase of innovation in the music industry. Lead the team that will bridge artists’ unmet and evolving needs by building the tools and services that they can’t live without and make their lives better.
Job Description
Strategic Partnership & Business Alignment
- Build strong, trusted relationships with business and function leaders to deliver value-added HR support aligned with organisational goals.
- Act as a strategic advisor on workforce planning, organisational development, and people-related risks.
M&A Integration & Change Management
- Lead and support HR components of M&A integration, including cultural due diligence, organisational restructuring, talent assessment, harmonisation of HR policies, and employee transition plans.
- Drive comprehensive change management strategies—including impact assessments, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement—to ensure successful adoption of new processes, systems, and structures.
- Partner with leaders to align post-merger work practices and embed a unified culture.
Talent Management & Development
- Drive the end-to-end talent management cycle, including talent acquisition, development, performance calibration, and succession planning.
- Work closely with managers to identify critical skills, close capability gaps, and support leadership development initiatives.
HR Operations & Projects
- Support and execute HR projects such as compensation benchmarking, HRIS implementation, policy reviews, and organisation-wide people programmes.
- Ensure HR policies, processes, and practices are consistently implemented and aligned to local regulations and global guidelines.
Employee Relations & Performance Management
- Provide day-to-day guidance to people managers on coaching, counselling, performance improvement, and disciplinary actions.
- Resolve employee relations issues with fairness, confidentiality, and sound judgment.
- Promote positive employee experience and drive engagement and retention activities.
Culture, Engagement & Organisational Excellence
- Work with leaders to promote a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
- Partner with employees and managers to identify opportunities to enhance engagement and improve organisational effectiveness.
- Support initiatives that reinforce company values, leadership behaviours, and cross-team collaboration.
Key Competencies:
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate business needs into people strategies.
- Deep expertise in M&A integration and organisational change management.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, work under pressure, and navigate complex, fast-changing environments.
- Proactive problem solver with strong analytical and decision-making capabilities.
- High degree of integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism.
Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum 7 to 10 years of HRBP or equivalent experience in complex, matrixed, or high-growth environments (technology, services, media, entertainment)
- Demonstrated experience leading HR components of M&A integration, including organisation design, cultural integration, and change management.
- Demonstrate excellent leadership qualities and a good people manager
- Strong ability to engage and manage interpersonal relationships across all levels
- Resourceful with high energy level, result-orientated, self-starter, team player and able to thrive in a fluid and dynamic environment
- Possess excellent influencing and interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and able to develop and forge positive professional relationships with all levels of the organisation
- Possess strong analytical skills and able to solve complex issues quickly and creatively
- Good team player, a self-starter; ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Additional Information
Our Values :
TuneCore is a team of creators, for creators. Our mission is to support our artists and labels at every stage of their careers. Our driving forces are fairness, expertise, respect and transparency. As global citizens, we believe that if we build more diverse, equitable and inclusive teams across our company, we will collectively create and offer more innovative solutions and better serve our artists, labels, partners, and employees.
We strive to build a company that reflects the communities we serve and embraces the diversity of the world we live in, where each person’s unique perspective is valued, and where everyone has the same opportunities and is supported in their personal and professional growth. From our hiring practices to the culture we create and nurture, we are committed to listening, learning and evolving. Our goal is to make TuneCore an inspirational place that feels comfortable and familiar no matter how you look, where you call home, who you love, what you believe, or what’s on your playlist.
CSR Strategy: Shaping Music for Good :
Our core values are put into action through Shaping Music for Good, Believe and TuneCore’s global corporate social responsibility strategy, integrated at all levels of the company and at the heart of our business model.
We strive to shape the music industry for good by building trusting relationships with artists and partners, investing in the growth and talent development of our local markets, and empowering our community to positively impact society. We work to achieve progress on our core priorities: gender equity, diversity, equity & inclusion, environmental sustainability, and wellness for our employees, artists, and industry partners.
Shapers Program :
Employees have the opportunity to join the Shapers Program, a resource group made up of teammates who want to dedicate their time and skills to Shaping Music For Good initiatives. Shapers develop action plans, educate teammates, support the implementation of programs, and inspire action within the organization on causes and issues that align with TuneCore and Believe’s SMFG priorities.
For the fourth annual study, BE THE CHANGE: Gender Equity in Music, MIDiA Research surveyed more than 4,100 members of the music industry—with a predominant focus on creators—in an effort to better understand their struggles and provide tangible strategies to help them overcome their challenges. Our intent for this study is to inspire meaningful change in the industry.
Recognition and Awards :
Fast Company's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Music list (2023 & 2024)
Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC (2022, & 2023, 2024)
Billboard Women in Music List: Andreea Gleeson, CEO (2023 & 2024)
Billboard Indie Power Players List: Andreea Gleeson, CEO (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Billboard's International Power Players List, Andreea Gleeson, CEO (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)