Senior People Business Partner

About the role

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do. We’re working with well-known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory—we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023.

You’ll join the People team as a dedicated business partner across the business. This role is designed for someone who enjoys getting close to the teams they support, partnering with leaders on decisions that shape their organizations, and the people practices that determine how their teams perform. You’ll bring deep familiarity with the rhythms of a GTM org—quota cycles, ramp, pipeline pressure, and the performance conversations that come with them. You’ll apply that same commercial instinct across the other functions you support. Critically, you’ll understand the world your GTM team is selling into: you’ve built your career in deep tech, engineering-led companies where the product is genuinely complex, a builder mentality runs through everything, and the people culture is something the company has worked hard to protect as it scales.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact people initiatives—including calibrations, compensation reviews, employee surveys, and management development.
• Support partnership and people strategy and decisions, including organization design, workforce planning, succession/transition planning, skills assessment, and compensation.
• Coach and develop people leaders to build high-performing, high-trust teams. You'll partner on implementing metrics GTM managers use when performance issues arise, culture starts to drift, or when they need a thought partner to navigate complexity.
• Build foundations to ensure high trust, empathy, and psychological safety within our teams.
• Build relationships deep enough to spot problems before they become crises. Use people data to surface insights, identify trends, and influence leaders to act.
• Own the experiences that matter most—performance improvement, employee relations, and off-boarding—with the judgment and care those moments require. Protect both the employee and the business.

Requirements

• You've partnered with senior leaders, aligned people programs to business strategy, and can point to outcomes—not just activities—you've driven. Experience supporting technical or GTM teams is a plus.
• You’ve supported an international GTM team.
• Curiosity and a strong desire to delve deep into various areas to identify the root causes of people concerns. You are proficient in analyzing people data and developing solutions and insights.
• You've led organizations through change—not just communicated it. You know how to build alignment, manage resistance, and keep teams moving forward.
• You are able to identify opportunities and programs that help develop and retain top talent. You believe in developing leaders for life.
• A knack for leading and managing change initiatives and are skilled in effectively communicating changes to the team. Experience leading change efforts in the past is a plus.
• An inclusive partner embedding DEI principles into your partnership practices to deliver equitable programs, practices, and policies to support all Honeycomb teams.
• Strong people advocate with a collaborative, co-led approach to business partnerships rooted in trust, empathy, vulnerability, and compassion.
• Nice to have: You’ve seen the motion before and have supported scaling teams by setting foundational practices. You are fluent in transparent compensation practices and can confidently teach others.

Benefits

• A stake in our success—generous equity with an employee-friendly stock program.
• Transparent pay based on levels relative to experience—it’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are.
• Unlimited PTO to recharge.
• A distributed-first mindset and culture.
• Home office, co-working, and internet stipend.
• Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents.
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood.
• Annual development allowance.

Pay

Base Salary based on level of experience: $125,500 - $170,000 USD

Please note: Honeycomb cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. In compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.