Senior People Partner, Tech — Shape Global Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Equity

Retirement Savings

Flexible Time Off

Winter Break

Parental Leave

Professional Development

Wellness Stipends

Sabbatical

Flexible Work

In-Office Meals

Job summary

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, seeks a Senior People Partner to embed with our engineering leadership and help design org structure, leveling, and compensation decisions across a fast-growing, distributed tech org.

You will own high-stakes employee relations end-to-end, coach managers, and partner with Talent to raise hiring standards, while navigating multi-country complexity in a hybrid, office-plus-remote model.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in People Partnering or HRBP roles with depth partnering directly with engineering or technical orgs.
• A track record of influencing senior technical leaders on org design, performance, and talent decisions.
• Sharp employee relations judgment and a demonstrated ability to own and resolve high-stakes, complex situations.
• Experience driving comp, promotion, and leveling decisions in technical environments.
• Experience supporting globally distributed technical teams and navigating multi-country complexity.
• A builder's instinct for ambiguity, comfortable moving fast while creating practical structure and clarity.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with senior, highly technical audiences.
• Exposure to international employment models or global expansion work.

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 Partnering

Engineering collaboration

Executive coaching

Global teams

Job description

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, seeks a Senior People Partner to embed with our engineering leadership and help design org structure, leveling, and compensation decisions across a fast-growing, distributed tech org.

You will own high-stakes employee relations end-to-end, coach managers, and partner with Talent to raise hiring standards, while navigating multi-country complexity in a hybrid, office-plus-remote model.