People Partner - Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)

London · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

You'll be deeply embedded with Engineering, Product, and Design as a strategic partner and operator: someone leaders trust for candid coaching, clear judgment, and pragmatic execution.
You’ll advise on org design, location strategy, talent planning, employee relations, manager effectiveness, and change management as we scale globally.

Build deep partnerships with EPD leaders and act as a trusted advisor on the people decisions that shape the business: team design, leadership effectiveness, talent density, retention, and change.
Rethink how work gets done in an AI-native company by experimenting with AI-enabled workflows to increase velocity and craftsmanship, and help EPD leaders adopt them.
Partner with Eng Leads, Finance, Recruiting, and People Ops to bring clarity and discipline to workforce planning, reporting lines, role definition, spans/layers, contractor strategy, and future org shape.
Run EPD's quarterly Signal Review cycle end-to-end, including manager prep, calibration, monitor/at-risk categorization, level corrections, follow-through, and clean operating rhythms.
Use qualitative signal and people data to identify hot spots, flight risks, manager gaps, and team-level patterns early; translate those insights into practical interventions.
Own complex employee situations, performance improvement plans, investigations, resignations, probation issues, and terminations for EPD in partnership with Legal and People Ops.
Coach technical leaders through hard conversations, promotion readiness, org changes, feedback, accountability, team health, and moments where clarity matters more than consensus.
Help shape and roll out scalable People programs for EPD, including manager enablement, career pathing, leveling consistency, compensation cycles, engagement follow-up, and change management.

10+ years as an HRBP or People Partner, with meaningful experience directly supporting Engineering, Product, Design, Research, or similarly technical organizations.
Experience at an AI-native, developer tools, product-led, or high-growth technology company.
Strong business judgment and the ability to connect people decisions to company priorities, product velocity, leadership effectiveness, and team performance.
Excellent judgment in employee relations, including sensitive performance, conduct, probation, resignation, and termination situations.
Comfortable giving hard feedback to senior technical leaders while maintaining strong relationships and discretion.
Comfort with ambiguity, pace, and imperfect systems in a company where structure is still being built in real time.