Senior HR Business Partner, Engineering & Product

The role

You will partner with Engineering and Product leaders on talent, organizational, and people decisions. You will coach managers and build development programs from 0 to 1.

What you will do

• Partner directly with Engineering and Product leaders on talent, organizational and people decisions.
• Coach managers on performance, feedback, team effectiveness, development and difficult employee situations.
• Identify what highest-performing employees need to continue growing and turn needs into practical development opportunities.
• Build development programs from 0 to 1.
• Partner with leaders on organizational design, role clarity, succession planning and talent movement.
• Run talent and performance processes for EPD.
• Spot patterns across teams and turn them into clear recommendations.
• Work across Recruiting, People Operations and the broader People team to solve problems end to end.
• Move between strategic questions and hands-on execution.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of strong HRBP experience partnering with Engineering, Product or similarly technical organizations.
• Startup experience in a fast-growing environment.
• Experience as a 0 to 1 builder of development, talent or manager programs.
• Excellent judgment for complex people situations.
• Ability to coach managers.
• High performance orientation.
• Operator mindset.
• Low-ego and direct communication.
• Able to work from the San Francisco office five days a week.

About the company

Mercor builds infrastructure that enables frontier AI labs and enterprises to train, evaluate, and improve AI on real-world professional work. The company is profitable and recently raised a $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation.