People Partner

Normal Computing Corporation • Palo Alto, CA

1d • $144,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Normal Computing is seeking a founding People Partner to help the company achieve its business goals by building effective teams and developing talent as the company grows. The role partners with leaders and employees across research, engineering, hardware, and business teams to strengthen performance, development, and collaboration.

The People Partner will establish the People Partner function at Normal, balancing efforts to improve performance and development with early identification of people challenges and risks. The role provides clear recommendations to inform priorities and uses insights from work with leaders and employees to shape broader People programs, while owning specific initiatives.

Requirements

• Experience advising leaders as a People Partner, HRBP, or in a comparable role within a tech or hardware company.
• Experience across early-stage startups and larger companies.
• Experience building practical People tools or delivering program components.
• Experience coaching managers through feedback, performance, and development.
• Sound judgment in employee relations, including fact-finding, confidentiality, and knowing when to involve People leadership or counsel.
• Experience using employee feedback and people data to recommend a change and assess whether it helped.
• Clear, candid communication, with examples of building trust and influencing leaders through difficult decisions or disagreement.
• Experience supporting employees and managers across multiple countries, with the ability to know when to draw on local expertise.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Rippling, Ashby, Lattice, Deel, Notion, or Slack.
• Experience supporting research or hardware teams, with an understanding of how their work shapes team structure, performance, and development.
• An HR or project management certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or PMP.
• Experience supporting reductions in force, setting up international entity arrangements, and PEO setups.

Responsibilities

• Understand business priorities, anticipate people needs, and advise leaders on talent, organizational change, and team capabilities as the company grows.
• Coach managers on setting clear expectations, giving useful feedback, delegating effectively, and handling difficult conversations; deliver coaching, team training, and resources for leadership development.
• Support managers through performance reviews, help them assess performance and create follow-through development plans, and recommend improvements to the company's approach.
• Use employee conversations, pulse survey results, exit themes, and people data to identify concerns and retention risks early.
• Facilitate discussions about role clarity and working relationships, agree on actions with leaders, and assess whether those actions help.
• Advise managers on performance concerns, employee issues, and conflict, handling sensitive situations fairly and carefully.
• Advise leaders on communicating and managing team changes, and involve People leadership and counsel in complex or high-risk matters.
• Build practical People tools or deliver components of People programs.
• Use employee feedback and people data to recommend changes and assess their impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed