HR Business Partner - Technology

Location: San Bruno, California, United States

Base salary: $185k–$210k per year, excluding benefits and potential equity.

Company

hirify.global is a waste prevention technology company building smart systems and infrastructure that turn food scraps into valuable resources for homes, businesses, and municipalities.

What you will do

• Partner with engineering and product leaders on team design, hiring plans, performance, and employee relations.
• Coach first-time and experienced managers on expectations, feedback, and team development.
• Run engineering performance, promotion, and talent review cycles, including calibration across hardware and software.
• Work with Recruiting on engineering hiring plans, role levels, and new-hire ramp-up.
• Partner with Legal and outside counsel on engineering work authorization, visa renewals, and sponsorship.
• Use attrition, ramp-time, and engagement data to identify issues and help shape team changes, manager development, performance, and compensation practices.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as an HR business partner or HR generalist, ideally supporting engineering, hardware, or product teams in a growing company.
• Credibility with technical leaders and comfort having direct conversations with them.
• Hands-on experience coaching managers and running performance and talent review cycles.
• Sound judgment on employee relations, including when to involve Legal or a specialist.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to move between high-level strategy and detailed execution.
• Ability to use data to communicate a clear story in small meetings and company-wide settings.
• Working knowledge of US employment law and work authorization, including visa sponsorship and renewals.
• Interest in hirify.global’s mission to prevent waste.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting teams in more than one country.

Culture & Benefits

• Reports to the Head of People and works closely with Recruiting and People Operations.
• Provides day-to-day People partnership for engineering managers and contributes to company-wide People projects.
• Expected to solve an early engineering leadership problem, build critical-role hiring and succession plans, and lead the next engineering performance and talent review cycle during the first 3–6 months.
• Compensation includes a potential equity grant in addition to benefits and base salary.