HR Business Partner - R&D

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Provide thought partnership to Engineering & Product leaders on scaling, org structure, role clarity, and team effectiveness
• - Identify talent gaps, succession risks, and opportunities to level-up leadership behaviors
• - Coach engineering and product managers on feedback, difficult conversations, performance management, and decision-making
• - Build leadership capability using Fingerprint''s Leadership Rubric and FLIP+ principles
• - Diagnose team dynamics, alignment issues, and friction points; drive interventions that improve execution and trust
• - Enable high-quality communication and collaboration across the organization
• - Lead calibration cycles, talent assessments, performance processes, and compensation cycles for R&D
• - Guide leaders through rigorous documentation, PIPs, and talent actions when needed
• - Partner with leaders on implementing new systems, processes, and cultural expectations as we scale
• - Improve communication clarity and speed across our globally distributed team
• - Serve as a functional lead for R&D employee relations, policy interpretation, and compliance (in partnership with People Ops)

Required Skills

• - 6-10+ years in an HRBP role supporting technical teams in high-growth SaaS or product-driven companies
• - Strong ability to influence without authority and build trust with senior technical leaders
• - Experience diagnosing organizational issues and designing interventions that improve execution
• - Comfortable operating with incomplete information and creating clarity in ambiguity
• - Deep coaching experience with managers and senior ICs
• - Ability to quickly understand technical environments, role types, and R&D operating rhythms
• - High judgment, calm communication, and a bias toward action over theatrics

Benefits

• - Bonus included
• - Remote work
• - Inclusive work environment