People Business Partner

True Anomaly, Inc.; Laguna Beach (CA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. is seeking a People Business Partner to partner with engineering leaders, shaping organization design, leadership development, and workforce strategy.

You will manage performance processes, talent reviews, and development pathways for non-technical roles while driving engagement and change initiatives. You will collaborate with the Compensation Manager and leadership to ensure fair, data-driven pay and organizational capability.

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

• 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 challenges unique to enabling functions - compliance rigor alongside speed, lean teams scaling fast, and non-technical career paths without established ladders.
• 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.
• Own low-to-moderate complexity ER cases independently. Conduct investigations, advise managers, and ensure consistent, values-aligned resolution.
• Partner with the Compensation Manager on comp cycles for corporate teams, including market benchmarking and data analysis for professional roles.
• Analyze engagement, attrition, and performance data across your client groups to surface patterns, flag risks early, and contribute cross-functional themes to quarterly exec readouts.
• Partner with Director, PBP to assess capability gaps, prioritize learning needs across lean teams, and identify cross-functional development opportunities.
• Model and embed True Anomaly's values - Be The Offset, What Would It Take, It's The People - through coaching, everyday practices, and intentional focus on teams that are often distributed or operating independent

Skills

HR Business Partner

Engineering support

Performance management

Talent planning

Employee relations

Compensation support

Credibility building

Independent work

Ambiguity management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR preferred

Job description

Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.

OUR MISSION

True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors - enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.

OUR VALUES

• Be the offset.We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.
• What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.
• It’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.

BENEFITS & PERKS*

• Best-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options
• Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays; Parental Leave; Sick Leave
• Fuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees
• And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays
• Equity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.

*Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles

YOUR MISSION

Partner with leaders across Engineering to build high-performing, engaged teams. This is a strategic partnership role - not a generalist position - suited for a People professional with 5-7 years of experience who can build credibility fast, manage competing priorities across multiple lean functions, and operate with autonomy in a high-growth environment being built from the ground up. Reports to the Director, People Business Partner.

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. Escalate high-stakes or legally sensitive matters to the Director, PBP.

Compensation & People Data

Partner with the Compensation Manager on comp cycles for corporate teams, including market benchmarking and data analysis for professional roles. Analyze engagement, attrition, and performance data across your client groups to surface patterns, flag risks early, and contribute cross-functional themes to quarterly exec readouts.

Organizational Capability

Partner with Director, PBP to assess capability gaps, prioritize learning needs across lean teams, and identify cross-functional development opportunities. Support change initiatives - restructures, workforce planning, scaling efforts - ensuring alignment with business goals and a positive employee experience throughout.

Culture

Model and embed True Anomaly's values - Be The Offset, What Would It Take, It's The People - through coaching, everyday practices, and intentional focus on teams that are often distributed or operating independent

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

COMPENSATION

• Base Salary: Base Salary: $ $115,000-$170,000

• Equity + Benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, HRA/HSA options, PTO and paid holidays, 401K, Parental Leave

Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work Location—Successful candidates will be located near Denver or Long Beach.
• Work environment—the work environment; temperature, noise level, inside or outside, or other factors that will affect the person's working conditions while performing the job.
• Physical demands—the physical demands of the job, including bending, sitting, lifting and driving.

This position will be open until it is successfully filled.

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To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

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