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What We're Looking For

You're a strategic People Partner who improves how organizations make people decisions as they scale. In this role, you'll support our organization as a partner to senior leaders, bringing clarity, consistency, and strong judgment to org design, talent decisions, and complex people challenges.

This role is not purely advisory. You will own high-impact situations end-to-end while helping leaders build the capability and systems needed to scale effectively.

As a Senior People Partner at Lightning AI, you'll join a small, high-impact team. This role combines strategic partnership with direct ownership across employee relations, performance, and scalable people operations in a distributed environment.

You will be joining the People Team and report to our Head of People. This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office with in-office requirements of 2 days per week. The salary range for this role is $180,000-$200,000. 

What You'll Do

• Partner with leaders to drive clear, consistent decisions on org design, team structure, leveling, promotions, and compensation
• Own complex employee relations and performance situations end-to-end, coaching leaders through performance management, role transitions, and exits
• Build manager capability by improving how leaders give feedback, handle performance, and make talent decisions
• Partner with Talent to strengthen hiring quality through better role design, leveling, and evaluation practices
• Identify friction or risk in people processes and implement pragmatic, scalable improvements in collaboration with cross-functional partners (Legal, Total Rewards, Finance)

What You'll Need

• 8+ years of experience in People Partnering or HRBP roles
• Demonstrated success influencing senior technical leaders on org design, performance, and talent decisions
• Strong employee relations judgment with proven ability to own and resolve complex, high-impact situations
• Experience driving compensation, promotions, and leveling decisions in technical environments
• Experience supporting globally distributed teams and navigating multi-country complexity
• Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while building practical structure and clarity
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across senior and highly technical audiences
• Exposure to international employment models or global expansion work

Nice To Have

• Deep familiarity with career frameworks and compensation models
• Experience building or evolving people systems in scaling organizations
• Experience supporting globally distributed engineering organizations
• SPHR or comparable certification
• Demonstrated success designing or improving compliance-focused programs that measurably reduce organizational risk