Senior People Business Partner

What We’re Building

Honeycomb is a service for the near and present future, defining observability and raising expectations of what developer tools can do! We’re working with well known companies like HelloFresh, Slack, LaunchDarkly, and Vanguard and more across a range of industries. This is an exciting time in our trajectory, we’ve closed Series D funding, scaled past the 200-person mark, and were named to Forbes’ America’s Best Startups of 2022 and 2023!

If you want to see what we’ve been up to, please check out these blog posts and Honeycomb.io press releases.

Who We Are

We come for the impact, and stay for the culture! We’re a talented, opinionated, passionate, fiercely inclusive, and responsible group of bees. We have conviction and we strive to live our values every day. We want our people to do what they truly love amongst a team of highly talented (but humble) peers.

How We Work

We are a fully distributed company, which means we believe it is not where you sit, but how you deliver that matters most. We invest in our people and care about how you orient to our culture and processes. At the same time we imbue a lot of trust, autonomy, and accountability from Day 1. #LI-Remote

Little more about the team:

You’ll join the People team as a dedicated business partner across the business. This role is designed for someone who enjoys getting close to the teams they support, partnering with leaders on the decisions that shape their organizations, and the people practices that determine how their teams perform.

This is a strong opportunity for an experienced People Business Partner who’s comfortable living close to the revenue floor while also holding a broader remit. You’ll bring deep familiarity with the rhythms of a GTM org - quota cycles, ramp, pipeline pressure, and the performance conversations that come with them. You’ll apply that same commercial instinct across the other functions you support. Critically, you’ll understand the world your GTM team is selling into: you’ve built your career in deep tech, engineering-led companies - the kind of places where the product is genuinely complex, a builder mentality runs through everything the company does, and the people culture is something the company has worked hard to protect as it scales.

What you’ll do in the role:

Serve as the primary People partner to the GTM leadership team - Sales, CS, Marketing and RevOps - attending staff meetings and acting as a true thinking partner on org strategy, talent, and performance

Support additional business functions as part of a broader PBP remit in partnership with your direct manager, bringing consistent people practices and partnership quality across all client groups

Partner with leaders and managers on the day-to-day work of running healthy organizations - hiring, onboarding, performance differentiation, and manager development

Coach managers through performance conversations, organizational change, and the everyday hard parts of running a team well

Lead complex employee relations matters end-to-end with the documentation rigor and judgment those calls require

Run the people cycles across your client groups - performance reviews, talent calibrations, compensation planning, engagement action planning, and promotions

Use people data to diagnose what’s actually happening across your orgs and bring clear recommendations to the leadership teams you support

What you’ll bring to the role:

8+ years of progressive HR/People experience, with at least 4 years in a true Business Partner capacity

Significant experience partnering with GTM, Sales, or revenue-focused organizations inside a SaaS or recurring-revenue business - you understand how GTM teams are built, how they’re measured, and what makes them perform

A background that includes at least one deep tech, engineering-first company - think developer tooling, observability, infrastructure, or adjacent spaces where the product is highly technical, a builder mentality runs through everything the company does, and technical craft and product quality set the standard for how the whole company operates. You know what it feels like to do People work in that environment, and you know how to build people practices that resonate there without compromising what makes those cultures special

Comfort holding a broad remit - you can context-switch between a revenue org conversation and a corporate function conversation without losing depth in either

Track record running complex employee relations matters, including multi-witness investigations, performance interventions on senior individuals, and multi-state separations

Strong people analytics instincts - comfort pulling and interpreting attrition, attainment, ramp, engagement, and organizational data, and translating it into recommendations leaders can act on

Multi-state US employment law fluency at a senior PBP level

Experience working in a remote-first or distributed company, with a track record of owning the end-to-end People Business Partner strategy for a function or business unit — not just executing programs, but shaping how people practices are designed, prioritized, and measured across the org

Base Salary based on level of experience

$125,500—$148,000 USD

What you'll get when you join the Hive:

A stake in our success - generous equity with employee-friendly stock program

It’s not about how strong of a negotiator you are - our pay is based on transparent levels relative to experience

Time to recharge with unlimited PTO

A distributed-first mindset and culture (really!)

Home office, co-working, and internet stipend

Full benefits coverage for employees, with additional coverage available for dependents

Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of path to parenthood

Annual development allowance

And much more...

Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

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Diversity & Accommodations:

We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace—where people of all backgrounds, identities, experiences, and abilities are welcomed, valued, and supported. We recognize that there is no single path to success and embrace nontraditional career journeys and diverse perspectives as key to building stronger, more innovative teams.

We strive to ensure an inclusive experience throughout every stage of our hiring process and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations as needed. If you require accommodations or accessible formats at any point during our hiring process, please let your recruiter know.

As an equal opportunity employer our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work. If there’s anything we can do to improve your experience, we’re always open to feedback.

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