People Business Partner - Product & Engineering

CoreWeave•Sunnyvale, CA

7d•$98,000 - $143,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a People Business Partner for Product and Engineering, you’ll enable leaders to make data-driven people decisions that support execution and growth. You’ll own and drive core people processes, balancing executional rigor with speed. You’ll identify patterns early, surface insights quickly, and help leaders course-correct before people challenges impact delivery. The focus of this role is reducing friction, increasing clarity, and amplifying leadership impact as the organization scales. This role sits at the center of Product and Engineering, supporting leaders through a period of rapid growth and change. You operate as a pragmatic people partner—building scalable practices, taking ownership, and removing obstacles that slow teams down. The role blends sound judgment and business acumen with a bias for action, shaping initiatives that improve organizational health and employee experience. Success in this role means turning people priorities into practical, low-friction solutions that help Product and Engineering teams operate effectively and scale with confidence.

Requirements

Be Curious at Your Core: You bring a genuine curiosity about our space and the evolving world of AI. You actively seek to understand the business, the functions you support, and the people in them, leveraging curiosity to uncover opportunities, spot trends, and design impactful People programs.
Act Like an Owner: You take full accountability for outcomes, thinking strategically while also rolling up your sleeves to build from the ground up. You proactively identify challenges, make data-informed decisions, and deliver results that move the business forward.
Empower Employees: You believe in enabling others to succeed, whether it’s through coaching leaders, designing initiatives that foster growth, or creating environments where employees feel engaged, supported and capable of doing their best work.
Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences: You measure success by how effective the leaders and teams you partner with become. You bring clarity, pragmatism, and partnership to every interaction.
Achieve More Together: You thrive in collaboration, building strong relationships across Product & Engineering, People Ops, Talent, and other cross-functional teams. You recognize that the best outcomes come from shared goals, transparent communication, and working in sync to create lasting impact.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership: Serve as a thought partner to Product and Engineering leaders, helping translate business goals into people decisions that improve execution, support growth, and strengthen organizational effectiveness.
Execute with Impact: Balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, stepping into the details when needed to ensure people programs land and deliver measurable impact.
Pattern Recognition & Insights : Leverage data, observations, and experience to identify recurring patterns—surfacing signals proactively and synthesizing them into clear actions for leaders.
Enable Change at Speed: Manage organizational change in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, ensuring seamless transitions, transparency and business continuity.
Talent Management: Partner with leaders to drive workforce planning activities, enabling consistent and defensible people decisions.
People Risk & Workplace Advisory: Consult on complex people matters, balancing risk, speed, and business practicality.
Cross-functional Delivery: Collaborate effectively with People Team COEs and other stakeholders to deliver scalable, business-aligned people solutions that work in practice, not just on paper.