# People Partner

**Company:** [Render](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/render)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** hrbp, people partner, manager enablement, engagement surveys, organizational health, Performance Management, AI Tools, Change Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Serve as strategic People Partner and advisor to Engineering, Product, and Design leaders at Render. Design and run people programs, coach managers on growth and performance, diagnose org health, and proactively leverage AI to increase productivity and impact.

## Job Description

## 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.

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