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:
- Deliver high-impact people initiatives — including calibrations, compensation reviews, employee surveys, and management development.
- Support the partnership and people strategy and decisions, including organization design, workforce planning, succession/transition planning, skills assessment, and compensation.
- Coach and develop people leaders to build high-performing, high-trust teams. You'll be the individual who has partnered on the implementation of metrics GTM managers turn to when performance issues arise, when culture starts to drift, or when they need a thought partner to navigate complexity.
- Build foundations to ensure high trust, empathy, and psychological safety within our teams.
- Build relationships deep enough to spot problems before they become crises. You'll use people data to surface insights, identify trends, and influence leaders to act.
- Own the experiences that matter most — performance improvement, employee relations, and off-boarding — with the judgment and care those moments require. You'll protect both the employee and the business.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- You've partnered with senior leaders, aligned people programs to business strategy, and can point to outcomes — not just activities — you've driven. Experience supporting technical or GTM teams is a plus.
- You’ve Supported an international GTM Team
- Curiosity and a strong desire to delve deep into various areas to identify the root causes of our people concerns. You are proficient in analyzing people data and developing solutions and insights.
- You've led organizations through change — not just communicated it. You know how to build alignment, manage resistance, and keep teams moving forward.
- You are able to identify opportunities and programs that help develop and retain top talent. And you believe in developing leaders for life.
- A knack for leading and managing change initiatives and are skilled in effectively communicating changes to the team. It's even better if you have led change efforts in the past.
- An inclusive partner embedding DEI principles into your partnership practices to deliver equitable programs, practices, and policies to support all Honeycomb teams.
- Strong people advocate and bring a collaborative, co-led approach to business partnerships rooted in trust, empathy, vulnerability, and compassion.
- Nice to have: You’ve seen the motion before and have supported scaling teams by setting foundational practices. You are fluent in transparent compensation practices and can confidently teach others.
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...
- 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
Skills Required
- Partnered with senior leaders and aligned people programs to business strategy, delivering measurable outcomes
- Familiarity with GTM organizational rhythms (quota cycles, ramp, pipeline pressure) and associated performance conversations
- Supported an international GTM team
- Proficient in analyzing people data, surfacing insights, and developing data-informed solutions
- Led organizations through change, building alignment and managing resistance
- Experience designing and implementing succession/transition planning, workforce planning, and skills assessments
- Coach and develop people leaders to build high-performing, high-trust teams
- Manage performance improvement, employee relations, and off-boarding with sound judgment and care
- Embed DEI principles into partnership practices to deliver equitable programs, policies, and practices
- Strong people advocacy with a collaborative, empathetic approach to business partnerships
- Experience supporting technical or GTM teams (preferred)
- Experience supporting scaling teams by setting foundational people practices (nice to have)
- Fluent in transparent compensation practices and able to teach others (nice to have)
- Eligibility to work and ability to verify identity and work authorization (no visa sponsorship available)
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.









