# Senior People Partner, Tech

**Company:** [Lightning AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightning-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $160k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Employee Relations, Org Design, Performance Management, Compensation, Career Frameworks, Leveling Frameworks, Talent Management, Human Resources Business Partnering, International Employment, Compliance, People Systems, Manager Coaching
**Posted:** 2026-08-18

> Partners with senior technical leaders on organizational design, performance, compensation, leveling, and employee relations. The role requires 8+ years of People Partnering or HRBP experience, strong judgment in complex situations, and experience supporting globally distributed technical teams.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Partner directly with technical leaders on org design, team structure, leveling, promotions, and compensation decisions.
- Own complex employee relations and performance situations end-to-end, including performance management, role transitions, and exits.
- Improve manager capability across the technical organization through stronger feedback, performance conversations, and talent decisions.
- Partner with Talent to improve hiring quality through role design, leveling frameworks, and evaluation practices for technical roles.
- Identify friction and risk in people processes and build pragmatic, scalable solutions with Legal, Total Rewards, and Finance.

## Requirements

- 8+ years of experience in People Partnering or HRBP roles, with substantial experience supporting engineering or technical organizations.
- Track record of influencing senior technical leaders on org design, performance, and talent decisions.
- Strong employee relations judgment and experience owning complex, high-stakes situations.
- Experience driving compensation, promotion, and leveling decisions in technical environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed technical teams and navigating multi-country complexity.
- Comfortable working through ambiguity while creating practical structure and clarity.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills with senior, highly technical audiences.
- Exposure to international employment models or global expansion work.

## Nice to Have

- Deep familiarity with engineering career frameworks and compensation models.
- Experience building or evolving people systems in a scaling, AI-native, or deep-tech company.
- Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations.
- SPHR or comparable certification.
- Experience designing or improving compliance-focused programs that reduce organizational risk.

## Compensation and Benefits

- Annual base salary: **$160,000–$180,000 USD**.
- Discretionary bonus and meaningful equity component.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents.
- RSUs.
- 401(k) matching in the U.S. and pension contributions in the U.K.
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and floating holidays.
- Two-week company-wide winter break.
- Paid parental and family leave.
- Annual learning and development allowance.
- Wellness and work-from-home stipends.
- Four weeks of paid sabbatical leave after four years of service.
- Flexible schedules and a hybrid work model for office-based teams.
- Complimentary meals at office hubs.

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