Sr. Director, HR Business Partner — R&D
Klaviyo · Boston, MA · 2 wk ago
Human ResourcesFull-time
About the role
This is not a typical HR partnership role. It's a mandate to build.
Responsibilities
- Partner at the top.
- You'll be the primary HRBP for our R&D organization - directly supporting VP+ leaders including the CPO, CTO, and CIO. That means candid advice, not polished answers. You'll help them think through the hardest people questions: how to structure growing teams, where talent risk is hiding, and when a leadership problem is actually an org design problem (or vice versa).
- Shape how R&D runs as AI changes everything.
- You'll partner with leaders and teams to navigate what that actually means: redesigning roles, rethinking team structures, and building the skills that let people work alongside AI rather than behind it.
- Drive talent strategy, not just talent process.
- You'll translate business priorities into people strategies - org design, succession planning, hiring strategy, and leadership development - that hold up as the company scales. You know the difference between a process that creates clarity and one that just creates paperwork.
- Lead with data.
- You'll use advanced people analytics and data signaling tools to spot trends before they become problems, make the case for investment, and measure whether the things we're doing are actually working.
- Lead and develop an HRBP team.
- You'll build and coach a team of HRBPs supporting R&D - setting a high bar, modeling what great HRBP work looks like, and creating the conditions for them to do their best work.
- Connect the dots across the People function.
- You'll work closely with the Head of HRBP and Talent Development to shape how the broader HRBP team operates - building efficient / automated processes, leading cross-functional projects (performance calibration, org design, career architecture), and maintaining strong partnerships with close partners such as TA, People Ops, Total Rewards, and Employment Legal.
Requirements
15-20+ years of HRBP or related HR experience, with meaningful time supporting R&D, Engineering, or Product organizations in high-growth tech. 5+ years leading and developing HR teams - you know what great coaching looks like, and you practice it. A proven track record partnering with senior leaders, including the C-suite, on high-stakes decisions with wide and long-ranging impact. Experience guiding organizations through real change - not just process improvement, but structural and strategic transformation. Deep expertise on org design, performance management, and leadership development - and the data literacy to back them up. The judgment to know when to push back and when to get out of the way.
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