Senior HR Business Partner for High-Growth AI Team

Runway; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Runway is seeking a Senior/Staff HR Business Partner to work directly with its leaders on how they grow, organize and perform. You’ll advise managers on people decisions, lead org design and talent programs, unblock teams, and translate insights into HR priorities across the business.

You will partner with leaders on headcount planning, coach on performance and development, and own complex employee relations cases in collaboration with Legal.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of HR experience, including HRBP roles.
• Experience in high-growth tech/AI company.
• Ability to advise senior leaders and earn trust.
• Strong employment law knowledge and discretion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Comfort working independently in fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders on org design, headcount planning, and leveling.
• Coach managers and executives on performance and career development.
• Own employee relations cases from intake to resolution with Legal support.
• Collaborate with Compensation and Talent Acquisition on offers and market adjustments.
• Analyze people data to identify risks and recommend actions.
• Design and roll out HR programs aligned with Runway teams.
• Provide hands-on support when needed.

Skills

Org design

Executive coaching

Employee relations

Performance management

Stakeholder alignment

Job description

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

*Titles posted to our careers page are updated regularly to best advertise the role and expected seniority, but internally we have a flat titling system with two types of titles: one for individual contributors and one for people managers.

About the Role

*Open to hiring remote across the US — we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle

We’re looking for a Senior/Staff HR Business Partner to work directly with Runway’s leaders and teams on how they grow, organize and perform. You’ll advise managers and executives on people decisions, lead org design and talent programs, unblock teams so they can move faster and turn what you see across the business into HR priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with leaders on org design, headcount planning, team structure and leveling

• Coach managers and executives on performance, feedback, career development and difficult conversations

• Own complex employee relations cases from intake through resolution, including investigations, in partnership with Legal where needed

• Work with Compensation and Talent Acquisition on offers, promotions and market adjustments

• Use headcount, attrition, engagement and performance data to spot risks early and recommend action

• Design and roll out programs that fit how Runway’s teams work, from manager training to engagement initiatives

• Step in wherever the team needs it

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of experience in HR, including at least four as an HR Business Partner supporting fast growing teams

• Experience at a high-growth company, ideally through periods of rapid headcount growth

• A record of advising senior leaders and earning their trust

• Strong employee relations experience, with sound judgment and discretion

• Working knowledge of employment law, compensation practices and performance management frameworks

• Clear written and verbal communication

• Comfort operating independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

• A high ownership mindset and a team-first attitude

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

There are many factors that go into salary determinations, including relevant experience, skill level and qualifications assessed during the interview process, and maintaining internal equity with peers on the team. The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range.

Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Working at Runway

Great things come from great teams. We’d love to hear from you.

We’re committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

More about Runway

• Universal World Simulator

• GWM-1

• Gen-4.5

• General World Models

• Robotics SDK

• Conversational Real-time Agents

• Runway Studios

We're excited to be recognized as a best place to work:

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