Senior People Business Partner

The role

You will partner with leadership to manage organizational design, talent strategy, and performance. You will support team effectiveness, headcount planning, and change management during a period of growth.

What you will do

• Serve as a trusted people partner to leadership.
• Advise management on org design, succession planning, performance, retention, and engagement using data.
• Build management capacity by equipping leaders with skills to hire, set expectations, and develop teams.
• Partner with Talent and Finance on headcount planning and tracking.
• Support change management efforts across teams.
• Drive a high-performance culture through expectation setting and performance management.
• Navigate high-stakes people matters including investigations and performance exits.
• Advise on role architecture, career pathing, and promotion readiness.
• Collaborate with Compensation on salary benchmarking and equity strategy.
• Partner with People Operations on employee lifecycle execution.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of progressive People Business partner experience partnering with all levels of management.
• Experience supporting 400+ employee organizations through rapid growth.
• Expertise in org design, performance management, talent strategy, and leadership development.
• Strong business acumen.
• Ability to navigate complex, high-stakes people decisions with speed and sound judgment.
• Highly analytical and first-principles thinker.
• High-ownership mindset with a bias toward execution and building repeatable systems.
• Extremely clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work in-person 3+ days per week in San Francisco.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents (U.S. only)
• Flexible PTO policy including company wide Winter Break
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k) (U.S. only)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups

About the company

Baseten powers mission-critical inference for AI companies by uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling. The company recently raised a $1.5B Series F.