Sr. HR Business Partner - EPD

New Relic, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

New Relic, Inc. is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to join the Global HRBP team, supporting Engineering, Product, and Design. This US-based remote role combines executive advisory with regional execution to align people strategies with product roadmaps.

You will lead organizational design, workforce planning, and change management across global hubs, ensuring alignment with business priorities and engineering velocity while partnering with COEs and ER.

Qualifications

• Executive advisory & coaching to EPD leaders (VP+).
• Organizational design & architecture to optimize velocity and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strategic workforce planning using analytics and market dynamics.
• Transformational change management across global locations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor to EPD executives, translating roadmaps into talent strategies.
• Diagnose business structure to design scalable team topologies and operating models.
• Lead multi-quarter headcount planning, succession modeling, and talent density strategies across global hubs.
• Oversee change management initiatives with minimal disruption to engineering deliverables.
• Use workforce metrics to identify risks and deliver proactive solutions.
• Act as primary regional contact to translate global priorities into local impact with compliance awareness.

Job description

We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us!

Your opportunity

We are seeking an exceptionally strategic, business-minded Senior HR Business Partner (Sr. HRBP) to join our Global HRBP team supporting our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organization.

In this US-based remote role, you will hold a dual mandate: serving as a key Strategic Business Partner to EPD Executive Leadership (VP+) globally, while also acting as the Regional HRBP for North America. You are much more than an HR functional leader; you possess deep technology and SaaS business acumen, understanding product release lifecycles, team topologies, and global product execution.

Our core EPD organization is anchored across three primary global hubs in the United States, Spain, and India. In this dual-impact role, you will align overall global EPD business priorities with North American regional execution, driving organizational design, multi-quarter workforce planning, and talent strategies that scale.

What you'll do

• Executive Advisory & Coaching: Serve as a trusted advisor, strategic thinker, and executive coach to EPD leaders (VP+), translating engineering roadmaps and product priorities directly into high-impact talent strategies.
• Organizational Design & Architecture: Diagnose business and structural challenges to design scalable team topologies, agile operating models, and resource allocation structures that optimize engineering velocity and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP): Utilize workforce analytics and tech market dynamics to lead multi-quarter headcount planning, skill-gap analysis, succession modeling, and talent density strategies across global tech hubs.
• Transformational Change Management: Lead cross-functional change management initiatives across global locations, ensuring structural, process, or leadership shifts are implemented with high trust, absolute clarity, and minimal disruption to engineering deliverables.
• Data-Driven Diagnostics: Leverage workforce metrics (attrition, engagement, performance calibration, talent mobility) to identify root causes, diagnose organizational risk, and deliver proactive, measurable business solutions.
• Regional HR Execution: Act as the primary regional point of contact to translate global EPD priorities into local impact. Apply a robust working knowledge of employment compliance as a strategic tool to anticipate business continuity risks and proactively close gaps, relying on our established COEs for operational execution.
• Governance & ER Partnership: Partner closely with our dedicated Employee Relations and Compliance COEs to serve the business. Act as a critical bridge between leadership and these specialized functions, ensuring complex matters are navigated effectively while maintaining a focus on organizational health and continuity rather than direct ER ownership.
• Cross-Functional COE Orchestration: Partner