People Partner

Render; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Render is seeking a People Partner to join its People team as a strategic advisor to Engineering, Product, and Design leaders. The role is based in SF with a ~3 days/week hybrid schedule and offers the opportunity to shape people practices at scale as the company grows.

You will blend hands-on HR partnership with program design, coach leaders through growth and changes, and design programs from onboarding to engagement surveys to drive real impact.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience as HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders.
• AI-forward mindset and willingness to leverage AI tools to increase velocity and value.
• Proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch.
• Strong communication and change management skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with EPD managers and leaders as advisor on org health and performance.
• Design and run people programs end-to-end (onboarding, enablement, surveys).
• Coach managers and executives through growth, reorganizations, and performance conversations.
• Support engagement survey programs and interpret results.
• Scale manager enablement programs across the company.

Skills

HRBP experience

PeoplePartner credibility

AI-forward mindset

Executive coaching

Program design

Stakeholder management

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 ephemereal edge/serverless solutions, 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

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years experience as an HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders, with demonstrated credibility with a Head of Engineering or Product
• AI-forward mindset: excited by AI tools, and consistently looking for ways to use them to increase velocity, output, and strategic value
• Proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch, including stakeholder management and measuring real impact (not just activity)
• Strong critical-thinking skills able to distinguish symptoms from root causes, pattern-match and prioritize the highest-leverage actions across teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable coaching leaders on messaging, timing, and change management
• A strong ownership orientation holds self accountable for outcomes, seeks and applies feedback, and adjusts approach quickly
• Comfortable navigating difficult partnerships and giving direct feedback, rather than optimizing for harmony, and dissatisfied with the status quo or settling for conventional approaches

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience supporting teams through hyper scale 3x+ growth, scaling, or reorgs
• Experience designing or running manager enablement programs (onboardi