Staff HR Business Partner, Fellow Program (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA, hybrid with 3 days per week in the office

Salary: $190,000–$240,000 USD annually

Company

Snorkel AI is an AI data lab building datasets, benchmarks, evaluations, and custom solutions for frontier and agentic AI systems.

What you will do

• Own the people strategy and operating model for the Fellow Program as it scales across rolling cohorts and geographies.
• Design the Fellow people architecture, including performance philosophy, talent segmentation, growth pathways, manager models, and redeployment processes.
• Build lifecycle programs covering onboarding, early-tenure support, progression, transitions, and exits.
• Design performance management frameworks, milestone reviews, evaluation criteria, feedback practices, and manager tools.
• Use performance data, quality signals, project outcomes, and manager feedback to guide talent and workforce decisions.
• Coach program leaders and managers while partnering with Recruiting, People Operations, Total Rewards, Legal, Finance, and employment partners.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR Business Partner or People Partner experience.
• Experience leading people strategy for a complex business unit, workforce segment, or major organizational initiative.
• Deep experience designing performance management processes and coaching leaders through difficult performance decisions.
• Experience with workforce planning, organizational design, team growth, manager effectiveness, and employee relations.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, lead cross-functional decisions, and operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Strong business acumen, project management, communication, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a global, distributed, or employer-of-record workforce.
• Experience with hourly, operational, services, contractor-to-employee, or other high-volume workforce models.
• Experience building talent programs for technical or AI-adjacent employee populations.
• Familiarity with using performance, quality, productivity, or project data for workforce decisions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a rapidly scaling company with market-proven solutions and strong funding.
• Opportunity to shape strategic priorities and influence major company initiatives.
• Support for career growth, leadership development, and learning across functions.
• Collaborative environment focused on growth, learning, and shared success.