HR Business Partner - Engineering & Product

What you'll do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Senior Directors and below on team design, talent strategy, and business outcomes
• Translate R&D priorities into aligned HR strategies, initiatives, and action plans
• Own day-to-day advisory relationship with client groups
• Drive team effectiveness initiatives using data and insights
• Partner on org design initiatives including analysis, stakeholder prep, and implementation
• Coach managers on performance management, team dynamics, and management effectiveness
• Drive core talent processes including performance management cycles, talent assessments, engagement surveys, and development planning
• Navigate and resolve complex employee relations matters and investigations
• Contribute to workforce planning by maintaining headcount data and analyzing trends
• Lead execution of team transformation and change initiatives
• Ensure effective deployment of HR Centers of Excellence programs
• Foster strong employee relationships and contribute to a transparent, respectful, high-performance culture
• Manage employee lifecycle processes including leaves of absence, relocations, terminations, and exits
• Manage compliance activities including background check escalations, immigration processes, data audits, and labor law adherence

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including 4+ years as an HR Business Partner
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, or other technical teams
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and consultative skills
• Strong HR expertise across employee relations, talent management, workforce planning, compensation, and talent acquisition
• Experience with HR systems and people analytics tools (e.g., Workday, Culture Amp)
• Proficiency in Google Workspace and working knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets
• Curiosity and practical use of AI tools to improve HR processes and decision-making
• Strong understanding of HR best practices and multi-state U.S. labor laws (including California and New York)
• Experience supporting Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, and/or Canada is a plus
• Working knowledge of immigration processes (e.g., non-immigrant visas)

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