HR Business Partner- Engineering

Job description

Description

About Tesla

Tesla’s goal is to accelerate the world’s transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs, as well as EV powertrain components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler. Model S is the world’s first premium sedan to be engineered from the ground up as an electric vehicle. Model S was named Motor Trend’s prestigious 2013 Car of the Year, achieved the best safety score of any car ever tested by the NHTSA, and Consumer Reports is calling it the best car it has ever tested.

Tesla Motors is committed to hiring and developing top talent from across the world for any given discipline. Our world-class teams operate with a non-conventional automotive product development philosophy of high inter-disciplinary collaboration, flat organizational structure, and technical contribution at all levels. You will be expected to challenge and to be challenged, to create, and to innovate. These jobs are not for everyone, you must have a genuine passion for producing the best vehicles in the world. Without passion, you will find what we're trying to do too difficult.

The Role

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transport. We want to replace gas-guzzling vehicles with the most high tech, fast, sexy and simply kick ass electric vehicles that produce zero emissions. Our Model S has “insane” and “ludicrous” modes and is the quickest production car in history. Consumer Reports said it is the “Best car EVER tested”, was Motor Trend’s 2013 Car of the Year and the Model S 70D was named the “Car of the 21st Century” by Car and Driver. But we are just getting started and these awards are not why we do what we do. We also recently launched Tesla Energy, a suite of batteries for homes, businesses, and utilities fostering a clean energy ecosystem and helping wean the world off fossil fuels. Tesla is not just an automotive company; it’s an energy innovation company.

We have locations all over the world and are based in sunny California only a short drive from the best wine on earth, the finest beaches in the world, Tahoe, Yosemite, San Francisco and more!

Our HR team . . . well . . . they are changing the world every day. This is sort of a requirement to working here – if you are not passionate about making things better for our organization, employees and humanity, you will hate it here. If you don’t exude passion, creativity, commitment, and fun, you will not make it. Cool places and disrupting the status quo are not for everyone!

Our team is diverse, to say the least. We have rock stars (Really! One of our team members opened for the Violent Femmes), a war hero that has been on Oprah, a published author, a former college lacrosse coach, world travelers, Super Moms, Super Dads, and more. We like unique people with remarkable talents. Boring people need not apply.

We work hard and play hard and operate as one team. Check your ego at the door. We don’t allow them on the property. We care about people, growth, excellence and results. We tend to lose sleep over them as this is not easy. Bottom line, we are in search of real people that believe in and deliver the impossible every day.

Responsibilities:

·  Make the impossible possible
·  Don’t be a jerk – we have a “no a**hole rule”
·  Speak “business”, not “HR”. We don’t much like “HR” lingo and some of it is just silly . . . PIP this!
·  Be a leader throughout Tesla – speak up, exert influence to create positive change and manage your boss, when needed We are all human, except those who are robots
·  Be a trusted business partner and coach to our leaders. Have some popcorn with them on Wednesday afternoons every now and then
·  Understand our business and how what you do helps it accelerate at rocket speeds. Please remember to wear a seatbelt when you do this
·  Be hands-on AND use your head. Serious brainpower required to work in this environment
·  When you think you are done, make it better
·  Run from anyone that believes that traditional HR is a good thing
·  Prove your value every day. Work that doesn’t add value is not valuable
·  Be you! Being someone else all day is just plain exhausting
·  Love change, it happens here at the speed of light . . . maybe faster, but we have been unable to measure it because it is going too damn fast
·  Be proactive, we move too fast to be reactive. Plus, people that are always reacting have a funny look on their face.
·  Love to be challenged . . . no, REALLY CHALLENGED!
·  Recognize others and they will recognize you. Most of us like chocolate
·  Know, learn and keep up-to-date on the HR stuff
·  Learn something new every day. Not doing so is just dumb

Requirements:

·  Be able to run a profitable lemonade stand
·  Have a killer personality, not the personality of a killer
·  Communicate so everyone can understand you what the heck you are trying to say
·  BA/BS degree (that is a “Bachelor of Science”) or equivalent practical experience. A PhD is probably overkill, as we prefer work experience to staying in school forever
·  Some amount of HR, anti-HR or relevant experience
·  A burning desire to work for the coolest company on the planet and change the world

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Tesla Motors is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, present or past history of mental disability, genetic information or any other classification protected by state or federal law.