Remote Strategic People Partner for AI-Driven R&D & Tech

Cint; Stockholms kommun; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Cint is transforming how R&D works and building AI-accelerated teams. We seek a Strategic People Partner who treats People as a system design problem and thrives at the intersection of technology, behavior, and organizational design.

You’ll shape org structures, team topology, and leadership in fast-moving environments, balancing speed with thoughtful people decisions and measurable impact across the R&D landscape.

Qualifications

• Experience working with R&D / engineering teams and understanding how things really happen.
• Experience driving meaningful transformation, not just polishing processes.
• Ability to tear down and rebuild core HR systems when they don’t fit.
• Genuine curiosity about AI and the future of work.
• Proactive, sharp and opinionated—don’t wait to be asked.
• Comfort in messy, fast-moving environments where clarity comes late.
• Believe People is a core driver of business performance, not a support layer.

Responsibilities

• Design the next version of R&D by rethinking org structures, team topology and ways of working in an AI-accelerated world.
• Cut through the AI noise by translating strategic statements into concrete roles, skills, and team composition.
• Rebuild People products for speed: performance, hiring, onboarding, merit, talent; reduce bureaucracy.
• Bridge strategy and reality by defining direction and ensuring execution.
• Build teams for what’s next by identifying future capabilities early.
• Upgrade leadership to handle ambiguity and prevent burnout.
• Protect what makes us human: judgment, creativity, trust and collaboration.
• Use data with strong insights; don’t hide behind dashboards when judgment is required.

Skills

R&D collaboration

Org design

AI curiosity

Proactivity

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Cint is transforming how R&D works and building AI-accelerated teams. We seek a Strategic People Partner who treats People as a system design problem and thrives at the intersection of technology, behavior, and organizational design.

You’ll shape org structures, team topology, and leadership in fast-moving environments, balancing speed with thoughtful people decisions and measurable impact across the R&D landscape.