Senior HRBP

Factory; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Factory is building autonomous development systems for enterprise engineering teams and is looking for a Founding HRBP in San Francisco. You will partner with leaders across the organization to design org structures, plan headcount, and implement effective people programs while shaping the HRBP function as the company scales.

You will coach leaders, drive performance reviews and compensation cycles, and contribute to L&D, Total Rewards, and data-driven HR initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in HR with an HRBP or People Partner background.
• Strong business acumen to partner with functional leaders and drive impact.
• Curious problem solver focused on root causes rather than policy
• Employee-focused with a people-first mindset.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all levels.

Responsibilities

• Advise leaders on org design, workforce planning, and growth as the company scales.
• Develop playbooks and frameworks for org design, performance calibration, and comp cycles.
• Coach leaders on performance, feedback, and people leadership to build trust.
• Lead end-to-end performance reviews and compensation processes with a data-driven approach.
• Leverage AI tools to optimize operations and workflows across the org.

Skills

HRBP experience

People Partner

Strategic thinking

Data-driven

Job description

Location: San Francisco (In-Office)

Our mission is to bring autonomy to software engineering.

We build software development agents that accelerate the world's largest enterprise engineering teams. We're helping customers including Nvidia, Adobe, Adyen, Klarna, and Ernst & Young turn their engineering organizations into autonomous development systems - shipping code, reviewing PRs, running tests, and deploying continuously.

In 2026, we raised a $150M Series C. We are backed by world-class investors and operators including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, Ali Ghodsi (CEO of Databricks), and Frank Slootman (Former CEO of Snowflake).

About The Role

As Factory scales through hyper-growth off the back of our Series C, we are seeking a Founding HRBP to serve as a trusted partner to leaders across the org. This is a foundational role: you'll provide hands-on partnership while helping build the HRBP function itself - the frameworks, playbooks, and practices that become its backbone as the company scales.

In this role, you will own:

Strategic Partnership & Org Effectiveness

• Advise functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and growth plans as the company scales.
• Own headcount planning and data integrity for your client groups
• Partner with leadership to build the playbooks and frameworks for org design, performance calibration, comp cycles, career ladders, headcount - that become the foundation for the HRBP function as it grows

Employee Relations & Coaching

• Serve as a trusted advisor on employee relations, exercising judgment on what's a coaching moment, a policy issue, or an escalation
• Coach leaders and managers on performance, feedback, and people leadership, building trust and transparency
• Contribute to L&D, People Program, and Total Rewards initiatives.

Performance, Comp & Data

• Run performance reviews and the comp cycle for your client groups end to end - calibration, consistency, communication
• Bring a data- and metrics-driven approach - attrition, span of control, performance distribution to flag org risk before it becomes a retention problem

AI & Ways of Working

• Use AI tools, including Factory's own product, as a core part of how you operate - dogfooding what we build
• Operate at both altitudes: build durable systems while running the day-to-day operational load, often in the same week

Your background looks something like this

• 8+ years in HR, with a strong track record as an HRBP or People Partner in high-growth, fast-paced tech companies
• Strong business acumen - you understand how the company makes money and decisions well enough to be a credible partner to functional leaders
• Curious and a real problem solver - you work root causes instead of pattern-matching to the nearest existing policy
• Genuinely employee-focused - you build for the people using the systems you design
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to build trust at all levels of the company
• Comfortable operating in both strategic and hands-on capacities in a dynamic, fast-changing environment
• Experience partnering with Finance on headcount planning and compensation strategy