People Partner, DC Operations

Fluidstack; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack in Seattle is seeking an experienced HR business partner to scale our People Team as we expand our frontier compute infrastructure. You will partner with data center operations across sites to design org structures, drive performance, and manage the people agenda in a 24/7 environment.

You will lead employee relations end to end, support site leaders on shift workforce management, and build programs that fit onsite, shift-based operations.

Qualifications

• HR business partner for operations, manufacturing, or field workforces.
• Handled employee relations cases end to end: investigation, documentation, resolution.
• Credible with site technicians and VPs in the same day.
• Willingness to travel to sites; effectiveness on site over video.

Responsibilities

• Partner with data center operations leadership across sites: org design, performance, and the people calls a 24/7 operation generates.
• Support site leaders on shift workforce management: scheduling models, fatigue, and retention.
• Run employee relations for a distributed hourly and salaried workforce, fairly and fast.
• Build people programs that work at a data center: onsite, shift-based, safety-adjacent.

Skills

HR business partner experience

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Travel to sites

Multi-site operations

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The People Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Build the people function from scratch, fast enough to keep up with 10x growth. We grew headcount 10x in the last year and we're not slowing down. You'll build the systems, programs, and team from nothing, and make them work before we outgrow them.
• Reinvent people operations around AI. Doing this by hand doesn't scale to a workforce growing this fast on a team this lean. You'll put AI at the core of how the function runs, so a small team supports many times its number.
• Own the culture and comms as the company scales. When a company scales this quickly, staying connected and aligned doesn't happen on its own. You'll own the internal comms, events, and rhythm that keep a multi-site team that's growing fast bound to a shared culture.

Role Scope

• Partner with data center operations leadership across sites: org design, performance, and the people calls a 24/7 operation generates.
• Support site leaders on shift workforce management: scheduling models, fatigue, and retention.
• Run employee relations for a distributed hourly and salaried workforce, fairly and fast.
• Build people programs that work at a data center: onsite, shift-based, safety-adjacent.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• You've been an HR business partner for operations, manufacturing, or field workforces.
• You've handled employee relations cases end to end: investigation, documentation, resolution.
• You're credible with site technicians and VPs in the same day.
• You travel to sites and are more useful there than on video.
• Bonus: 24/7 shift environments. Multi-state employment law. Contractor conversions. Safety program partnership.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.

You will receive a confirmation email once your application has successfully been accepted. If there is an error with your submission and you did not receive a confirmation email, please email [e-mail] with your resume/CV, the role you've applied for, and the date you submitted your application-- someone from our recruiting team will be in touch.

Compensation Range: $178K - $232K