People Partner

Join Render's People team as a People Partner, where you'll be a strategic partner to our Engineering, Product, and Design leaders. This role combines hands-on HR business partnership with program-design skills to help managers navigate growth, build high-performing teams, and scale people practices. You'll work directly with EPD managers and leaders, diagnose organizational health, design and run people programs, coach managers and executive leaders, support engagement survey programs, and build and scale manager enablement programs. This position is based in our SF office with a hybrid schedule.

• Partner directly with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders as a trusted advisor on organizational health, team dynamics, and performance.
• Design and run people programs end-to-end, driving stakeholder alignment and follow-through to ensure programs change behavior.
• Coach managers and executive leaders through growth, reorganizations, and performance conversations, providing direct and pragmatic feedback.
• 8+ years experience as an HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders, with demonstrated credibility with a Head of Engineering or Product
• 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, and dissatisfied with the status quo or settling for conventional approaches
• Proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch, including stakeholder management and measuring real impact (not just activity)
• If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you—your unique experience might be just what we need
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable coaching leaders on messaging, timing, and change management
• Strong critical-thinking skills able to distinguish symptoms from root causes, pattern-match and prioritize the highest-leverage actions across teams
• AI-forward mindset: excited by AI tools, and consistently looking for ways to use them to increase velocity, output, and strategic value
• 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