Senior HR Business Partner

The role

You will shape company culture and people strategy by partnering with engineering and operational leadership. You will design HR initiatives, manage employee relations, and coach managers to support organizational scaling.

What you will do

• Partner with engineering and operational leadership to anticipate workforce risks and support organizational scaling
• Serve as an advisor to people managers and individual contributors on core HR matters
• Contribute to strategic initiatives including diversity and inclusion and workforce development
• Identify and resolve employee relations matters
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws
• Identify, build, and implement HR policies and processes
• Coach managers on addressing people matters
• Build manager capability for engineering teams
• Respond to employee questions on core HR functions
• Drive initiatives for employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention

Required qualifications

• 8+ years as an HR Business Partner, including experience with technical, engineering, or operational teams
• Demonstrated success operating in high-growth, fast-scaling startup environments
• Experience in a California-based aerospace, engineering, technology, or hardware manufacturing company
• Ability to influence and coach managers and individual contributors
• Hands-on experience managing complex employee relations matters and internal investigations
• Experience with succession planning and leadership development
• Direct experience with California labor and employment law, including wage and hour matters, exempt/non-exempt classifications, and employee entitlements
• Ability to plan, implement, and own complex, multi-stakeholder projects
• Direct experience with HRIS and performance management tools (e.g., 15Five, Rippling, Leapsome, Lattice, ADP Workforce Now)
• Experience with AI tools and applications

Nice to have

• Professional HR certifications such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR
• Utilization of people data analytics to make recommendations and impact outcomes
• Experience managing HR functions for non-exempt employees with specific experience with California labor regulations

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Medical/dental/vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Many other perks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.15 or otherwise eligible for a federally issued export control license

About the company

K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown. The company is a high-growth Series D-funded company mass-producing satellite platforms for missions from LEO to deep space.