Senior People Strategy Partner for Growth Tech

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Equity compensation

Hybrid work model

Job summary

DigitalOcean is looking for a Senior People Business Partner to act as the trusted advisor to the CPTO leadership team, shaping workforce plans and organizational design for high growth. You will lead change, drive talent strategy, and partner with engineering and product to develop leaders and performance across the organization.

You will coach senior leaders on compensation, performance cycles, and employee relations while ensuring legal compliance and a culture of excellence across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 4 years as an HRBP or similar strategic partner role
• Experience supporting engineering and/or product organizations
• Strong track record of coaching senior leaders and influencing without authority
• Hands-on employee relations experience, including investigations
• Experience leading organizational design and change, including restructures
• Working knowledge of employment law
• Experience consulting on compensation decisions
• Data fluency: using HRIS and analytics to tell a story

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to the business leader and their direct reports
• Translate business plans into workforce plans and challenge headcount assumptions
• Proactively bring data and employee insights into leadership discussions
• Advise on restructures, team design, spans and layers, and role clarity
• Lead the people side of change: planning, consultation, communications
• Help managers carry their teams through disruption
• Own the talent strategy for your unit, including workforce planning and hiring priorities
• Identify high performers and future leaders, and develop succession plans
• Ensure critical roles are not single points of failure
• Support performance cycles and calibrate ratings for fairness
• Advise on promotions and compensation decisions
• Coach managers on addressing underperformance
• Guide managers through complex cases, including grievances and investigations
• Balance legal compliance, fairness to the individual, and risk to the organization
• Escalate to counsel when needed
• Read the temperature of teams through attrition and engagement metrics
• Implement a holistic talent plan with leaders to strengthen retention
• Define and implement a culture of excellence
• Turn data into a clear case for action

Skills

Strategic partnership

Org design

Change management

Talent & succession

Performance management

Employee relations

Data-driven decisions

Executive coaching

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

HR certification (SPHR, SHRM-SCP) a plus

Tools

Workday

HRIS analytics tools

Job description

DigitalOcean is looking for a Senior People Business Partner to act as the trusted advisor to the CPTO leadership team, shaping workforce plans and organizational design for high growth. You will lead change, drive talent strategy, and partner with engineering and product to develop leaders and performance across the organization.

You will coach senior leaders on compensation, performance cycles, and employee relations while ensuring legal compliance and a culture of excellence across teams.