Strategic People Partner for Engineering & Product Leaders

Shield AI; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Sr Director, PXBP – Software, Products & Services to translate business priorities into people strategies that strengthen organizational performance and leadership capability.

You will partner across People Experience to design organizational design, workforce and talent planning, leadership development, and change management, while guiding due diligence and integration work in M&A contexts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• 12+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience, including experience supporting Engineering, Product, AI/ML, Platform, or other highly technical organizations.
• Demonstrated success partnering with VP and Director-level leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Deep experience in organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, change management, and leadership coaching within scaling technology organizations.
• Experience supporting the people aspects of M&A, including due diligence, integration planning, talent assessment, retention, organizational alignment, and cultural integration.
• Experience advising senior leaders through periods of rapid growth, organizational transformation, restructuring, or integration.
• Experience operating within a global People organization and leveraging COEs and Shared Services to deliver scalable solutions.
• Strong understanding of technical talent markets, job architecture, leveling frameworks, and compensation principles.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage workforce analytics and people data to diagnose challenges and influence decisions.
• Exceptional consulting, coaching, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and build alignment across senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders to translate business and technical priorities into people and organizational strategies that enable innovation, execution, and scale.
• Advise on talent and workforce investments, including build, buy, and partner decisions, required to deliver against product and business priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and complex people decisions.
• Shape organizational design, roles, and operating models to strengthen accountability, collaboration, speed, and scalability.
• Develop leadership and senior technical talent to strengthen organizational capability and succession.
• Partner on workforce and talent planning, identifying critical capability, capacity, succession, and retention risks and recommending actions aligned to business priorities.
• Shape workforce composition, location strategy, and talent approaches to build and retain critical capabilities.
• Use people and business data to assess organizational health, talent trends, leadership effectiveness, and workforce risks.
• Translate insights into clear recommendations that influence leadership decisions and improve organizational performance.
• Partner with key stakeholders on the people strategy for complex transformations, restructures, M&A, and organizational integrations.
• Collaborate on M&A due diligence and integration planning, including talent assessment, organizational design, retention, leadership alignment, and cultural integration.
• Advise leaders through change to maintain business continuity, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement.
• Partner across PX, Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, Product, and other functions to deliver integrated solutions to complex business and talent challenges.
• Lead and contribute to cross-functional initiatives that strengthen scalable people practices and organizational effectiveness.

Skills

Strategic HR leadership

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Leadership coaching

M&A integration

Change management

People analytics

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR-related field

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Sr Director, PXBP – Software, Products & Services to translate business priorities into people strategies that strengthen organizational performance and leadership capability.

You will partner across People Experience to design organizational design, workforce and talent planning, leadership development, and change management, while guiding due diligence and integration work in M&A contexts.