Normalcomputing
People Partner
New York. Posted 26 days ago
The role
A founding People Partner will build effective teams and develop talent to help Normal achieve business goals. You will partner with leaders across research, engineering, hardware, and business teams to strengthen performance and development.
What you will do
- Partner strategically with leaders on talent and organizational change
- Coach and develop managers on feedback, delegation, and difficult conversations
- Deliver coaching, team training, and resources for leadership development
- Support managers through performance reviews and development plans
- Use employee conversations, pulse surveys, and people data to identify team health concerns
- Facilitate discussions on role clarity and working relationships
- Advise on employee relations, performance concerns, and conflict
- Advise leaders on communicating and managing team changes
Required qualifications
- Experience advising leaders as a People Partner, HRBP or in a comparable role within a tech or hardware company
- Experience across early-stage startups and larger companies
- Experience building practical People tools or delivering program components
- Experience coaching managers through feedback, performance and development
- Sound judgment in employee relations, including fact-finding and confidentiality
- Experience using employee feedback and people data to recommend change
- Clear, candid communication with examples of building trust and influencing leaders
- Experience supporting employees and managers across multiple countries
Nice to have
- Experience using Rippling, Ashby, Lattice, Deel, Notion, Slack
- Experience supporting research or hardware teams
- An HR or project management certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR or PMP
- Experience supporting reductions in force, setting up or international entity arrangements, and PEO setups
About the company
Normal is an applied AI company solving problems in AI and silicon. They build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure.