# HR Business Partner

**Company:** [Thinking Machines Lab](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/thinking-machines-lab)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $190k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Leadership Coaching, Performance Management, Compensation Design, Career Frameworks, Employment Law, Talent Management, Organizational Design, Succession Planning, Feedback Systems, Conflict Resolution
**Posted:** 2026-05-04

> Coaches managers on leadership, performance, and team dynamics while designing scalable people systems including compensation, career frameworks, and feedback processes for a high-growth AI research lab.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do

- Coach managers by observing how they lead, identifying strengths and blind spots, and working on continuous improvement.
- Advise leadership on organizational decisions: team structure, succession planning, and strategic people choices that shape how we work.
- Design compensation structures that let us compete for the best machine learning talent in the world while staying aligned on values and principles.
- Create career/leveling frameworks that work for a research lab where career advancement often doesn’t mean managing people, contributions such as mentorship and taste are harder to measure, and where senior researchers expect to grow and learn even after a decade in the role.
- Build feedback and evaluation processes that help people improve, not just get measured.

## Skills and Qualifications

**Minimum qualifications:**
- 5+ years experience working as a people leader or HR business partner in a high-growth technical environment.
- Fluency with employment law and best practices in North America.
- Proven track record of developing HR practices and supporting a diverse set of talent.

**Preferred qualifications:**
- 10+ years experience as a people leader or HR business partner.
- Experience in setting up novel systems that scale in a fast-growing company.
- Coaching experience that showcases a skill set in providing confidential support, motivating improvement, and conflict resolution.
- Track record of supporting a high trust and low ego environment for high caliber talent with strong retention and growth.

## Compensation

Expected annual salary range: $190,000 - $300,000 USD.

## Benefits

Generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.

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