People Partner

At Render, we’re building the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications. Our mission is to eliminate the tradeoff between the power of hyperscalers and the simplicity of developer-friendly platforms—so teams can ship fast, scale reliably, and focus on their product, not infrastructure. Unlike complex hyperscalers or ephemeral edge/serverless solutions, Render offers a developer-first experience with persistent compute, dynamic autoscaling, built-in orchestration, and observability, allowing teams to launch, scale, and manage real-world applications without writing infrastructure code or managing servers. Our platform is trusted by over 6 million developers worldwide and continues to grow rapidly. In February 2026, we raised an additional $100M in Series C financing, bringing our total funding to $257M, to accelerate our vision of making cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive—designed for the speed of modern AI development. We’re a diverse and talented team that values craft, velocity, and user experience. We are looking for a People Partner to join Render’s People team as a strategic partner to our Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) leaders. You’ll combine hands-on HR business partnership with program-design skills to help managers navigate growth, build high-performing teams, and scale people practices as Render grows. This role is based out of our SF office (~3 days/week hybrid). You will partner directly with EPD managers and leaders as a trusted, hands-on advisor on org health, team dynamics, and performance. You will approach AI as a core productivity partner and proactively use AI to automate scheduling and streamline communications, research, and other daily workflows. You will diagnose organizational health by looking for patterns across teams using survey data, 1:1s, and other signals and translate insights into concrete, prioritized action plans for leaders. You will design and run people programs end-to-end (e.g., manager enablement, onboarding, engagement-survey action planning), driving stakeholder alignment and follow-through. You will coach managers and executive leaders through growth, reorgs, and performance conversations, giving direct and pragmatic feedback. You will support engagement survey programs, helping leaders interpret results and align on the highest-priority actions. You will build and scale manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, community) that create leverage for leaders across the company.

Qualifications

8+ years experience as an HRBP / People Partner supporting engineering or product leaders, demonstrated credibility with a Head of Engineering or Product, AI-forward mindset, proven track record designing and running people programs from scratch, strong critical-thinking skills, excellent written and verbal communication, strong ownership orientation, comfortable navigating difficult partnerships and giving direct feedback, experience supporting teams through hyper scale 3x+ growth, scaling, or reorgs, experience designing or running manager enablement programs (onboarding, training, performance management), experience with engagement survey programs including design, interpretation, and action-planning, prior experience operating in both early-stage and more scaled organizations