People Partner

Webhosting; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Render in San Francisco seeks a People Partner to join our People team and act as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Design leaders. You’ll combine hands-on HR business partnership with program-design skills to help managers navigate growth, build high-performing teams, and scale people practices as Render grows.

This role is based out of our SF office (~3 days/week hybrid). We’re looking for someone who can leverage AI to automate scheduling, drive onboarding, engagement surveys,

Qualifications

• Experience as a People Partner or HR business partner influencing leaders and shaping people strategy.
• Ability to design, implement, and scale manager enablement, onboarding, and engagement initiatives.
• Strong coaching, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise EPD managers on org health, team dynamics, and performance as a trusted partner.
• Leverage AI to automate scheduling and streamline daily workflows.
• Diagnose organizational health using surveys, 1:1s, and other signals, translating insights into action plans.

Skills

HR business partnership

Change management

Coaching

People analytics

Program design

Onboarding

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or related field

Tools

HRIS

ATS

AI-assisted scheduling tools

Job description

Render ·United States, San Francisco HQ

Remote Full-time Not specified People

Job Description

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms-so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure.

Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephe... Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Whether you’re building LLM-powered applications, scalable SaaS products, or async processing pipelines, Render empowers teams to move fast and scale confidently from MVP to millions of users.

Our platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive-designed for the speed of modern AI development.

We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. If you’re excited to help shape the future of the intelligent cloud and empower developers everywhere, we’d love to hear from you.

Applying to Render

We’re seeking candidates who possess high integrity, humility, and an insatiable drive to learn. Through reasoned discussions and continuous feedback, we strive to improve both individually and collectively. We foster an environment of mutual trust and respect, empowering effective debate to achieve the best outcomes for our customers and team.

We especially encourage members of underrepresented groups in the tech community to apply and understand that not all successful candidates will meet each requirement listed.

Our interview process is unique to each role, and we value the candidate experience just as much as our customer experience. We hope your conversations with us reflect a thoughtful process that is illuminative, enjoyable, and respectful of your time.

About the Role

We are looking for a People Partner to join Render’s People team as a strategic partner to our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) leaders. You’ll combine hands‑on HR business partnership with program‑design skills to help managers navigate growth, build high‑performing teams, and scale people practices as Render grows. This role is based out of our SF office (~3 days/week hybrid).

What You’ll Do

Partner directly with EPD managers and leaders as a trusted, hands‑on advisor on org health, team dynamics, and performance

Approach AI as a core productivity partner and proactively use AI to automate scheduling and streamline communications, research, and other daily workflows rather than defaulting to manual processes out of habit or hesitation

Diagnose organizational health by looking for patterns across teams using survey data, 1:1s, and other signals and translate insights into concrete, prioritized action plans for leaders

Design and run people programs end‑to‑end (e.g., manager enablement, onboarding, engagement‑survey action planning), driving stakeholder alignment and follow‑through to ensure programs actually change behavior

Coach managers and executive leaders through growth, reorgs, and performance conversations, giving direct and pragmatic feedback including pushing back when needed

Support engagement survey programs, helping leaders interpret results and align on the highest‑priority actions

Build and scale manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, community) that create leverage for leaders across the company

Nice-to-Haves

If this role excites you but you don’t meet every single requirement, we’d still love to hear from you-your unique experience might be just what we need.

This position is generally not eligible for new visasponsorship. At Render’s discretion, the business may sponsor existing visa transfers. Applicants who require sponsorship must receive business authorization.

Render is an equal‑opportunity employer. We know that employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, product, and community to flourish. We make all employment decisions including hiring, evaluation, termination, promotional, and training opportunities, without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical handicap, mental disability, medical condition, disability, gender or identity or expression, pregnancy or pregnancy‑related condition, marital status, height and/or weight.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.