Senior Technical People Partner
About The Position
You’re a strategic People Partner who improves how engineering organizations make people decisions as they scale. In this role, you’ll support our Engineering organization as a primary partner to senior technical leaders, bringing clarity, consistency, and strong judgment to org design, talent decisions, and complex people challenges. This role is not purely advisory. You will own high-impact situations end-to-end while helping leaders build the capability and systems needed to scale effectively. As a Technical People Partner at Lightning AI, you’ll join a small, high-impact team. This role combines strategic partnership with direct ownership across employee relations, performance, and scalable people operations in a distributed environment. You will be joining the People Team and report to our Head of People. This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $180,000-$200,000.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in People Partnering or HRBP roles, with significant experience supporting engineering or technical teams
- Demonstrated success influencing senior technical leaders on org design, performance, and talent decisions
- Strong employee relations judgment with proven ability to own and resolve complex, high-impact situations
- Experience driving compensation, promotions, and leveling decisions in technical environments
- Experience supporting globally distributed teams and navigating multi-country complexity
- Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while building practical structure and clarity
- Excellent communication and influencing skills across senior and highly technical audiences
Nice To Haves
- Deep familiarity with engineering career frameworks and technical compensation models
- Experience building or evolving people systems in scaling organizations
- Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations
- SPHR or comparable certification
- Demonstrated success designing or improving compliance-focused programs that measurably reduce organizational risk
Responsibilities
- Partner with Engineering leaders to drive clear, consistent decisions on org design, team structure, leveling, promotions, and compensation
- Own complex employee relations and performance situations end-to-end, coaching leaders through performance management, role transitions, and exits
- Build manager capability by improving how leaders give feedback, handle performance, and make talent decisions
- Partner with Recruiting and Engineering to strengthen hiring quality through better role design, leveling, and evaluation practices
- Identify friction or risk in people processes and implement pragmatic, scalable improvements in collaboration with cross-functional partners (Legal, Total Rewards, Finance)
Benefits
- We offer competitive base salaries and equity with a 25% one year cliff and monthly vesting thereafter.
- For our international employees, we work with our EOR to pay you in your local currency and provide equitable benefits across the globe.
- In the US, we offer:
- Medical, dental and vision
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible paid time off including winter closure
- Paid family leave benefits
- $500 one time home office stipend
- $1,000 annual learning & development stipend
- 100% Citibike membership (NYC only)
- $45/month gym membership
- Additional various medical and mental health services
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
