Engineering People Partner — Strategic HR Leader

True Anomaly, Inc.; Denver, Long Beach (CO, CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare

Flexible Time Off

Daily catered lunch

401(k) retirement plan

Dog Fridays

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks a senior People Business Partner to partner with engineering leaders, shaping org design, talent planning, and workforce strategy in a fast-growing environment near Denver or Long Beach.

You will guide performance, succession planning, and learning programs, ensuring alignment with company values and delivering impactful HR programs for both technical and non-technical teams. Collaborating with leadership, you will advance culture, drive compensation support, and deliver

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of progressive HR experience, with 3–4+ years in a Business Partner or strategic HR role
• Experience supporting engineering functions
• Strong foundation in performance management, talent planning, ER, and compensation support
• Able to build credibility quickly with operationally focused leaders skeptical of HR's value
• Comfortable operating independently day-to-day while partnering with Director, PBP on complex decisions
• Proven ability to manage ambiguity and competing priorities across multiple small teams
• Bachelor's degree required; SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR preferred
• Aerospace, defense, or high-growth tech experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership: Serve as the dedicated PBP for engineer function leaders, providing counsel on org design, talent planning, leadership development, and workforce strategy.
• Build trusted relationships through proactive consultation and a genuine understanding of the challenges unique to enabling functions — compliance rigor alongside speed, lean teams scaling fast, and non-technical career paths without established ladders.
• Talent & Performance: Guide managers on performance management, succession planning, and career development. Focus particularly on building professional development pathways for non-technical roles.
• Drive execution of people programs — performance cycles, talent reviews, engagement initiatives — and feed insights back into program design.
• Employee Relations: Own low-to-moderate complexity ER cases independently. Conduct investigations, advise managers, and ensure consistent, values-aligned resolution.
• Compensation & People Data: Partner with the Compensation Manager on comp cycles for corporate teams, including market benchmarking and data analysis for professional roles.
• Organizational Capability: Assess capability gaps, prioritize learning needs, support change initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Culture: Model and embed True Anomaly's values through coaching and everyday practices across distributed teams.

Skills

People partner

Org design

Talent planning

Leadership development

Workforce strategy

HR analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR

Tools

HR systems

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks a senior People Business Partner to partner with engineering leaders, shaping org design, talent planning, and workforce strategy in a fast-growing environment near Denver or Long Beach.

You will guide performance, succession planning, and learning programs, ensuring alignment with company values and delivering impactful HR programs for both technical and non-technical teams. Collaborating with leadership, you will advance culture, drive compensation support, and deliver