Responsibilities
- Champion and integrate company culture, mission, values, and purpose across all HR processes, including hiring, performance management, and team dynamics.
- Provide strategic HR partnership to high-performing engineering teams, focusing on team goals, business needs, and challenges, and engage in team meetings to identify blind spots affecting cohesion and morale.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to team leaders, offering guidance on initiatives, team dynamics, interpersonal relationships, conflict resolution, and building stronger team culture.
- Develop and execute HR strategies tailored to engineering teams, aligning with business objectives and optimizing performance through workforce planning, talent development, and succession planning.
- Support leaders with consistent performance management, including coaching, counseling, career development, and informed decisions on promotions and performance improvement.
- Actively participate in the hiring process, particularly culture interviews, to ensure new hires align with team values and raise the hiring bar across the organization.
- Focus on understanding interpersonal dynamics within teams, using high emotional intelligence to coach individuals and teams on effective collaboration and constructive conflict resolution.
- Work with leadership to identify and address organizational issues or inefficiencies, challenging the status quo with innovative solutions to improve effectiveness.
- Influence hiring, promotion, and termination decisions based on core values, ensuring HR decisions align with the mission and driving organizational change.
- Manage complex employee relations issues with fairness and transparency, ensuring legal compliance and providing guidance on sensitive matters.
- Partner with the HR team to analyze trends and metrics for improving team performance, engagement, and retention, using data for actionable insights.
Benefits
- Generous cash and equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k plan with 2% company match for USA employees
- Flexible paid time off plan that is actively used
Compensation
Generous cash and equity compensation
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — San Francisco, San Jose
What Engineering Leaders Value in Their HRBP
- Deeply Informed: The HRBP is expected to sit in on team meetings and stay fully informed about team dynamics and key business priorities, providing relevant, real-time advice and an external perspective to address blind spots.
- Performance Partnership: You will be a critical partner in supporting leaders’ performance and team performance, including being a sounding board and helping evaluate individual and team performance to enhance effectiveness.
- Interpersonal Focus: The ability to focus on interpersonal relationships within teams, providing guidance on improving collaboration, resolving conflicts, and improving communication among team members.
- Proactive Talent Strategy: Actively involved in all interview loops, specifically the culture interview, to ensure new hires align with team values and bring the right skills to meet business needs.
Non-Negotiable Qualities
- Solid experience in HR roles, particularly in supporting high-performance engineering teams.
- High emotional intelligence, with the ability to effectively navigate complex interpersonal dynamics and coach leaders.
- A coach-like mindset, with a focus on building high-performing teams and achieving business outcomes.
- Courage to challenge the status quo and ask tough questions in the pursuit of excellence.
About Lambda
- Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast.
- Investors include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove.
- Research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG.
- Values are publicly available at https://lambda.ai/careers
Other
- This position requires presence in our San Francisco or San Jose office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: Applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
