# Senior Staff PX Business Partner - Software, Products & Services

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Salary:** $170k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Human Resources, Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, Change Management, Leadership Coaching, Mergers And Acquisitions, Talent Assessment, People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, Job Architecture, Leveling Frameworks, Compensation Principles, Succession Planning, Organizational Diagnostics
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Serves as a strategic people partner to senior Engineering and Product leaders, driving organizational design, workforce and talent strategy, leadership effectiveness, analytics, and M&A integration. Requires 12+ years of HR Business Partner experience supporting highly technical organizations and a bachelor's degree.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Strategic Engineering Partnership
- Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders to translate business and technical priorities into people and organizational strategies.
- Advise on talent and workforce investments, including build, buy, and partner decisions.

### Leadership Advisory & Organizational Effectiveness
- Coach senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and complex people decisions.
- Shape organizational design, roles, and operating models.
- Develop leadership and senior technical talent, succession, and organizational capability.

### Workforce & Talent Strategy
- Identify capability, capacity, succession, and retention risks through workforce and talent planning.
- Shape workforce composition, location strategy, and talent approaches.

### Data & Organizational Insights
- Use people and business data to assess organizational health, talent trends, leadership effectiveness, and workforce risks.
- Translate insights into recommendations that influence leadership decisions.

### Change, Transformation & M&A
- Lead people strategy for transformations, restructures, mergers and acquisitions, and organizational integrations.
- Support due diligence, talent assessment, organizational design, integration planning, retention, leadership alignment, and cultural integration.
- Advise leaders through change while maintaining business continuity and employee engagement.

### Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner with People Experience, Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, Product, and other functions.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that strengthen scalable people practices.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- 12+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience, including support for Engineering, Product, AI/ML, Platform, or other highly technical organizations.
- Experience partnering with VP- and Director-level leaders on people strategies.
- Deep experience in organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, change management, and leadership coaching within scaling technology organizations.
- Experience supporting people-related M&A activities, including due diligence, integration planning, talent assessment, retention, organizational alignment, and cultural integration.
- Experience advising senior leaders through rapid growth, transformation, restructuring, or integration.
- Experience operating within a global People organization and leveraging Centers of Excellence and Shared Services.
- Understanding of technical talent markets, job architecture, leveling frameworks, and compensation principles.
- Ability to use workforce analytics and people data to diagnose challenges and influence decisions.
- Exceptional consulting, coaching, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience supporting high-growth or rapidly scaling technology organizations.
- Experience partnering with Software, Product, AI/ML, Platform, or Services organizations.
- Pre-close diligence and post-close M&A integration experience.
- Experience supporting global or geographically distributed teams in matrixed organizations.
- Expertise in organizational effectiveness, operating model design, team effectiveness, and organizational diagnostics.
- Experience using people analytics, workforce insights, and business metrics for talent and organizational decisions.
- Familiarity with AI and its implications for workforce strategy, skills, and organizational design.
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $170,000–$250,000.

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