People Partner, Manufacturing

PVH (Tommy Hilfiger/Calvin Klein); Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly workforce programs

High-growth scaling

HRIS implementation

Bilingual English and Spanish

Job summary

Fluidstack in Austin is seeking an experienced HR partner to scale our manufacturing workforce. You will coach managers, resolve employee relations on the ground, and build people rhythms for a growing hourly and salaried team, with a focus on speed and quality.

You’ll need deep employment-law knowledge, the ability to move at operating speed, and experience handling sensitive ER cases. Bilingual English/Spanish is a bonus.

Qualifications

• You've been the HR partner for a manufacturing, industrial, or field workforce, on-site and in the mix.
• You've coached first-time managers into good ones.
• You've run sensitive ER cases end to end and your investigations held up.
• You move at operating speed: same-day answers, not next-cycle policies.
• You know employment law well enough to know when you need counsel.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the manufacturing org on hiring, performance, and hard conversations on a factory timeline.
• Own employee relations on the ground: investigate, resolve, and document with judgment and speed.
• Build the people rhythms for an hourly and salaried workforce: onboarding, reviews, engagement, and offboarding.

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.

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.

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

Serve as the people partner for the Manufacturing org as it scales from startup crew to full production workforce. Coach managers, many of them first‑time, on hiring, performance, and hard conversations on a factory timeline. Own employee relations on the ground: investigate, resolve, and document with judgment and speed. Build the people rhythms for an hourly and salaried workforce: onboarding, reviews, engagement, and offboarding.

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve been the HR partner for a manufacturing, industrial, or field workforce, on-site and in the mix.
• You’ve coached first-time managers into good ones.
• You’ve run sensitive ER cases end to end and your investigations held up.
• You move at operating speed: same-day answers, not next-cycle policies.
• You know employment law well enough to know when you need counsel.

Bonus

• Hourly workforce programs.
• High-growth scaling.
• HRIS implementation.
• Bilingual English and Spanish.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.