People Partner

About the role

We are looking for a People Partner to join Render’s People team as a strategic partner to our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) leaders. You’ll combine hands-on HR business partnership with program-design skills to help managers navigate growth, build high-performing teams, and scale people practices as Render grows.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with EPD managers and leaders as a trusted, hands-on advisor on org health, team dynamics, and performance
• Approach AI as a core productivity partner and proactively use AI to automate scheduling and streamline communications, research, and other daily workflows rather than defaulting to manual processes out of habit or hesitation
• Diagnose organizational health by looking for patterns across teams using survey data, 1:1s, and other signals and translate insights into concrete, prioritized action plans for leaders
• Design and run people programs end-to-end (e.g., manager enablement, onboarding, engagement-survey action planning), driving stakeholder alignment and follow-through to ensure programs actually change behavior
• Coach managers and executive leaders through growth, reorgs, and performance conversations, giving direct and pragmatic feedback including pushing back when needed
• Support engagement survey programs, helping leaders interpret results and align on the highest-priority actions
• Build and scale manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, community) that create leverage for leaders across the company

Requirements

8+ years experience as an HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders, with demonstrated credibility with a Head of Engineering or Product

AI-forward mindset: excited by AI tools, and consistently looking for ways to use them to increase velocity, output, and strategic value

Proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch, including stakeholder management and measuring real impact (not just activity)

Strong critical-thinking skills able to distinguish symptoms from root causes, pattern-match and prioritize the highest-leverage actions across teams

Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable coaching leaders on messaging, timing, and change management

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

Qualifications

• Nice-to-haves include 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

Skills

• Experience working in a fast-paced, growing organization
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights
• Strong project management and organizational skills
• Ability to coach and mentor others

Benefits

• 4 weeks of paid vacation
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child
• Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401K plans
• 100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage for you and a dependent
• FSAs and HSAs are available as well
• Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health and therapy, hobbies, etc.
• Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• Commuter benefits for Renders in the Bay Area, and home office stipends for remote Renders
• Continuous learning benefits & related support