Senior People Business Partner

Posted 21 Hours Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
126K-148K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Information Technology • Software • Analytics
We help engineering teams deeply understand their own production systems through observability.
The Role
As a Senior People Business Partner, you'll partner with GTM leadership to shape organization strategy, enhance people practices, and drive performance initiatives while managing complex employee relations and utilizing people data for effective decision-making.
Summary Generated by Built In
What We’re Building
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 and more 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! 
 
If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases. 
 
Who We Are
We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.
 
How We Work
We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:

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 the decisions that shape their organizations, and the people practices that determine how their teams perform.

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced People Business Partner who’s comfortable living close to the revenue floor while also holding a broader remit. 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 - the kind of places where the product is genuinely complex, a builder mentality runs through everything the company does, and the people culture is something the company has worked hard to protect as it scales.

What you’ll do in the role:

  • Serve as the primary People partner to the GTM leadership team - Sales, CS, Marketing and RevOps - attending staff meetings and acting as a true thinking partner on org strategy, talent, and performance
  • Support additional business functions as part of a broader PBP remit in partnership with your direct manager, bringing consistent people practices and partnership quality across all client groups
  • Partner with leaders and managers on the day-to-day work of running healthy organizations - hiring, onboarding, performance differentiation, and manager development
  • Coach managers through performance conversations, organizational change, and the everyday hard parts of running a team well
  • Lead complex employee relations matters end-to-end with the documentation rigor and judgment those calls require
  • Run the people cycles across your client groups - performance reviews, talent calibrations, compensation planning, engagement action planning, and promotions
  • Use people data to diagnose what’s actually happening across your orgs and bring clear recommendations to the leadership teams you support

What you’ll bring to the role:

  • 8+ years of progressive HR/People experience, with at least 4 years in a true Business Partner capacity
  • Significant experience partnering with GTM, Sales, or revenue-focused organizations inside a SaaS or recurring-revenue business - you understand how GTM teams are built, how they’re measured, and what makes them perform
  • A background that includes at least one deep tech, engineering-first company - think developer tooling, observability, infrastructure, or adjacent spaces where the product is highly technical, a builder mentality runs through everything the company does, and technical craft and product quality set the standard for how the whole company operates. You know what it feels like to do People work in that environment, and you know how to build people practices that resonate there without compromising what makes those cultures special
  • Comfort holding a broad remit - you can context-switch between a revenue org conversation and a corporate function conversation without losing depth in either
  • Track record running complex employee relations matters, including multi-witness investigations, performance interventions on senior individuals, and multi-state separations
  • Strong people analytics instincts - comfort pulling and interpreting attrition, attainment, ramp, engagement, and organizational data, and translating it into recommendations leaders can act on
  • Multi-state US employment law fluency at a senior PBP level
  • Experience working in a remote-first or distributed company, with a track record of owning the end-to-end People Business Partner strategy for a function or business unit — not just executing programs, but shaping how people practices are designed, prioritized, and measured across the org
Base Salary based on level of experience
$125,500$148,000 USD

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

  • A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program
  • It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience
  • Time to recharge with unlimited PTO
  • A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)
  • 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 
  • And much more...
 
Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.
 
 
Phishing and Recruitment Scam Warning:
We take your security seriously. Please be aware that recruitment scams are increasingly common and scammers may create email addresses or websites to impersonate Honeycomb employees. To help protect you:
  • All communications will come from an @honeycomb.io email address
    • We occasionally work with external recruiting agencies. These partners will use legitimate business email addresses—never personal accounts like Gmail or Yahoo.
  • Our recruiting process will never ask you to provide financial or sensitive personal information, including but not limited to:
    • Social security or tax identification numbers
    • Credit card numbers
    • Bank account information

Diversity & Accommodations:
We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.
 
We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.
 
As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.
 
 
Privacy Notice:
If you apply for a job at Honeycomb and your application is unsuccessful (or you withdraw from the process or decline our offer), Honeycomb will retain your information after your application for a period of time in accordance with local laws. We retain this information for various reasons, including in case we face a legal challenge in respect of a recruitment decision, to consider you for other current or future jobs at Honeycomb, and to help us better understand, analyze and improve our recruitment processes.
 
For more information regarding our privacy practices please see the Honeycomb Privacy Notice.
 
If you do not want us to retain your information for consideration for other roles, or want us to update it, please contact [email protected]. Please note, however, that we may retain some information if required by law or as necessary to protect ourselves from legal claims. 
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
140 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Honeycomb is fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across billions of rows of data to definitively solve problems. Learn more about us here: https://www.honeycomb.io/about/

Why Work With Us

We believe Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future. Within the industry, we are passionate about consumer-quality developer tools and excited to build a product that raises our industry’s expectations of what our tools can do for us. Inside Honeycomb, we care deeply about our culture, transparency, and inclusion.

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