Lead People Partner, Commercial

The Role

Crux's commercial organization is growing rapidly and at an inflection point. In the past year, we've scaled from a small but mighty team to a multi-product commercial engine spanning Investments, Debt Capital Markets, Transferable Tax Credits, Investor Coverage, and Industry Coverage — and we're not done. As the org matures and takes on the complexity of a multi-product capital markets firm, we need a dedicated, experienced people partner who can operate at the intersection of strategic HR, talent management, compliance, and executive coaching.

The Role

Crux's commercial organization is growing rapidly and at an inflection point. In the past year, we've scaled from a small but mighty team to a multi-product commercial engine spanning Investments, Debt Capital Markets, Transferable Tax Credits, Investor Coverage, and Industry Coverage — and we're not done. As the org matures and takes on the complexity of a multi-product capital markets firm, we need a dedicated, experienced people partner who can operate at the intersection of strategic HR, talent management, compliance, and executive coaching.

This is a brand-new role, built specifically to serve the commercial org and its leaders. You will be an embedded strategic partner to our Chief Capital Officer, Co-Founders and Commercial management team, translating business needs into people programs that develop, retain, and elevate our commercial talent. You ll bring the rigor of a financial services HR professional, the agility of someone who has operated in a high-growth tech environment, and the empathy of a trusted advisor.

What You ll Do

• Be a true strategic talent partner to commercial leadership. Work closely with commercial team managers to understand business goals, team dynamics, and organizational gaps — and translate those insights into proactive HR strategy.
• Drive performance management with sophistication. Lead the design and delivery of performance reviews, calibration, leveling, and feedback frameworks for the commercial org. Help managers have the right conversations at the right time — not just during review cycles. Champion a culture where continuous feedback and high standards are the norm.
• Navigate complex topics with good judgment. Handle sensitive situations — with discretion, fairness, and a clear understanding of legal and regulatory obligations.
• Build and maintain HR policies and programs with compliance in mind. Crux operates as a capital markets and advisory firm with growing regulatory complexity. You ll be attentive to employment law, broker-dealer compliance considerations, and the intersection of HR and finance regulatory requirements. You won t need to be a compliance officer, but you ll partner with our legal and compliance team to ensure our people s practices are appropriate.
• Support manager development and team health. As the commercial team adds layers of management, help develop the management muscle across the org. Run enablement sessions that can also be leveraged across functions/teams, provide coaching to people managers, and serve as a sounding board for team leads working through people challenges.
• Bring a coaching mindset to everything you do. You ll work with high-performing and talented experts who respond to direct, insightful guidance. Whether you hold a formal coaching certification, or have substantial experience in executive or leadership coaching, you bring the frameworks to help people unlock their best work.

What We re Looking For

• Background in financial services HR, ideally including banking or capital markets. You understand what it means to support professionals in high-stakes, transaction-intensive environments — the culture, the pace, the sensitivity around comp and titles, and the compliance landscape. Experience at a bank, investment manager, or similar institution is strongly preferred.
• Experience in a high-growth or dynamic/changing work environment. You ve also operated in a scrappier, faster environment where the rules are still being written. You re comfortable building things from scratch, iterating quickly, and operating without a large HR team around you.
• Strong HR generalist…