HR Business Partner
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About the role
The HR Business Partner will serve as a strategic advisor to functional leaders across technical and non-technical teams. This role is responsible for driving organizational effectiveness, supporting high-performance standards, and guiding leaders through complex people decisions. This foundational role will help build the HRBP function from the ground up: establishing core management toolkits, strengthening org design rigor, advising on performance and flight risk, and acting as connective tissue between leaders and the broader People team. You'll help ensure we scale with intentionality, high performance, and sound judgment, while laying the groundwork for future org growth.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership Partnership
- Partner with leaders to strengthen team performance and organizational health
- Advise on org design, role clarity, and team structure
- Support workforce planning aligned to business objectives
- Coach managers on feedback, accountability, and leadership effectiveness
- Guide leaders through change and scaling challenges
- Performance & Talent Management
- Coach managers through performance reviews, calibration, and promotion decisions
- Uphold high performance standards and consistency across teams
- Support talent planning and succession conversations
- Guide performance improvement and complex people decisions
- Ensure decisions are thoughtful, consistent, and well-documented
- Build scalable frameworks for separation and performance management practices
- Building for Scale
- Identify gaps in people practices and implement pragmatic, scalable solutions
- Partner cross-functionally to evolve people frameworks as the company grows
- What You Bring
- 7+ years of experience in an HR Business Partner role, ideally in high-growth or technology environments
- Strong experience with employee relations and workplace investigations
- Experience advising senior leaders and influencing decision-making
- Demonstrated ability to build HR frameworks in scaling organizations
- Deep knowledge of US employment practices; UK exposure is a plus
- Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to navigate ambiguity
- Ability to balance business needs with a fair and consistent employee experience
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Additional Information
Our Mission Reflection's mission is to build open superintelligence and make it accessible to all . We're developing open weight models for individuals, agents, enterprises, and even nation states. Our team of AI researchers and company builders come from DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta, Character.AI, Anthropic and beyond.
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