Senior People Partner — Engineering & Org Design

Lightning AI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Significant equity (RSUs)

401(k) matching and pension

Unlimited PTO

Winter break

Parental & family leave

Professional development allowance

Wellness stipends

Sabbatical after four years

Hybrid work optional

In-office meals

Job summary

Lightning AI seeks a Senior People Partner to embed with our engineering and technical leadership, shaping org design, talent decisions, and complex people moments with clarity rather than chaos. You’ll own high-stakes situations end-to-end, from leveling calls to sensitive exits, while building systems that let technical leaders make great people decisions independently.

Join a small, high-leverage People team where your judgment will influence how a fast-scaling, distributed engineering and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in People Partnering or HRBP roles, with real depth partnering directly with engineering or technical orgs.
• Track record influencing senior technical leaders on org design, performance, and talent decisions.
• Experience driving comp, promotion, and leveling decisions in technical environments.
• Experience supporting globally distributed technical teams and navigating multi-country complexity.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with technical leaders to drive clear, consistent calls on org design, team structure, leveling, promotions, and comp.
• Own complex employee relations and performance situations end-to-end: coaching leaders through performance management, role transitions, and exits with care and rigor.
• Level up manager capability across the technical org: sharper feedback, better performance conversations, stronger talent decisions.
• Partner with Talent to raise the bar on hiring quality: role design, leveling frameworks, and evaluation practices for technical roles.
• Spot friction and risk in people processes before they become problems, and build pragmatic, scalable fixes alongside Legal, Total Rewards, and Finance.

Skills

People partnerships

Engineering collaboration

Employee relations

Compensation & leveling

Global / multi-country work

Ambiguity to structure

Executive communication

Job description

Lightning AI seeks a Senior People Partner to embed with our engineering and technical leadership, shaping org design, talent decisions, and complex people moments with clarity rather than chaos. You’ll own high-stakes situations end-to-end, from leveling calls to sensitive exits, while building systems that let technical leaders make great people decisions independently.

Join a small, high-leverage People team where your judgment will influence how a fast-scaling, distributed engineering and