People Partner

What You’ll Do

• Partner directly with EPD managers and leaders as a trusted, hands-on advisor on org health, team dynamics, and performance.
• Approach AI as a core productivity partner and proactively use AI to automate scheduling and streamline communications, research, and other daily workflows.
• Diagnose organizational health by looking for patterns across teams using survey data, 1:1s, and other signals and translate insights into concrete, prioritized action plans for leaders.
• Design and run people programs end-to-end (e.g., manager enablement, onboarding, engagement-survey action planning), driving stakeholder alignment and follow-through.
• Coach managers and executive leaders through growth, reorgs, and performance conversations, giving direct and pragmatic feedback.
• Support engagement survey programs, helping leaders interpret results and align on the highest-priority actions.
• Build and scale manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, community) that create leverage for leaders across the company.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years experience as an HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders, with demonstrated credibility with a Head of Engineering or Product.
• AI-forward mindset: excited by AI tools, and consistently looking for ways to use them to increase velocity, output, and strategic value.
• Proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch, including stakeholder management and measuring real impact.
• Strong critical-thinking skills able to distinguish symptoms from root causes, pattern-match and prioritize the highest-leverage actions across teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable coaching leaders on messaging, timing, and change management.
• A strong ownership orientation: holds self accountable for outcomes, seeks and applies feedback, and adjusts approach quickly.
• Comfortable navigating difficult partnerships and giving direct feedback, rather than optimizing for harmony.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience supporting teams through hyper scale 3x+ growth, scaling, or reorgs.
• Experience designing or running manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, performance management).
• Experience with engagement survey programs including design, interpretation, and action-planning.
• Prior experience operating in both early-stage and more scaled organizations.

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans.
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy.
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders.
• Continuous learning benefits & related support.