People Partner

🌏 Remote 

🏝️ Extended vacation leave

🖥️ Generous tech and home office budgets

👶🏻 Generous paid parental leave

🏢 Coworking space budget

🧘 Healthcare and wellness

At Buildkite, we’re on a mission to unblock every developer on the planet. Our CI/CD platform powers some of the world’s most innovative engineering teams—including Airbnb, Shopify, Lyft, Canva, and PagerDuty. We've reimagined how CI/CD should work: scalable, reliable, and secure for high-performing engineering teams. At Buildkite we have a huge opportunity in front of us so this is a great time to join us in our growth journey. 

We are looking for an experienced and strategic People Partner to join our small but mighty People team to help us keep building one of the best SaaS companies in the world. This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role owning all People Partnering across the United States while collaborating with People team peers to develop our people programs and operations. You’ll coach senior leaders, shape long-term workforce strategy, and help build the systems and practices that support our next phase of growth. You’ll work closely with a collaborative, cross-functional team who flex together to get things done - we don’t have large, siloed functions, so collaboration and adaptability are key.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments, loves solving complex people challenges, and wants to help shape the future of work in the age of AI. We’re in build mode and redefining what high performance, aligned teams look like.

🧠 Strategic Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor and coach to US senior leaders, helping them lead through complexity, scale with intention, and create high-performing, values-aligned teams
• Model inclusive leadership behaviours and play a key role in shaping how we build a high-trust, high-performance culture in a distributed, scaling company, acting as project lead on key initiatives
• Shape how leaders embed Buildkite’s career expectations and values into hiring, goal-setting, performance feedback and day-to-day delivery through knowledge sharing, relationship building and influence
• Use data and insights (engagement surveys, turnover trends, performance metrics) to anticipate challenges and recommend proactive solutions that align with the company’s goals to have strategic impact 
• Drive meaningful change initiatives, ensuring alignment, communication, and buy-in at every level

📈 Talent 

• Lead complex cross-functional workstreams across the people team, partnering with peers and business leaders as needed to develop and scale talent programs that bring forward bold ideas
• Partner with executives to align people strategies with business goals, including workforce planning, organizational design, and talent priorities
• When required, provide talent acquisition support for open roles, particularly for senior regional hires, ensuring hiring decisions aligned to workforce plans and budgets, plus a smooth candidate experience
• Help to evolve and guide performance management to ensure clarity, fairness, and a culture of high performance
• Support career development planning, building scalable programs that empower employees to grow their skills and impact

• Serve as a trusted advisor for employees, offering guidance on day-to-day challenges, career growth, and interpersonal dynamics
• Navigate complex employee relations matters with discretion, fairness, and empathy.
• Support leaders in navigating complex situations and decisions with confidence and care
• Ensure compliance with legislation in every country we operate in, specifically the US, staying ahead of regulatory changes
• Own US employment compliance across all states where we operate, partnering with legal experts where appropriate and updating senior leadership on risks
• Manage relationships with global employment partners to ensure all employees are safe, supported, and able to thrive

🌐 People Operations

• Partner with People team peers to collaborate on operations projects to shape and simplify processes and systems that scale with us while keeping things human, practical, and grounded
• Collaborate with People, Finance and IT teams to ensure a smooth and welcoming onboarding experience for all new hires and offboarding processes for exiting team members
• Maintain and enhance our HRIS and other People systems to ensure efficient, scalable processes
• Use insights to spot trends, influence decisions, and drive better outcomes
• Help leaders interpret signals and metrics in a way that supports both people and performance

💵 Total Rewards

• Partner with People team to review compensation and benefit offerings against market and budget needs, while ensuring alignment with our high performance culture
• Oversee benefit program administration, including healthcare and equity  
• Partner with Finance to process payroll bi-monthly
• Prepare compensation-related documentation such as commission plans, salary review letters, equity agreements etc

• 6-8+ years in a People Partner or equivalent role
• Proven track record of partnering with and influencing senior leaders to shape people strategies that drive alignment, elevate performance, and deliver measurable business results
• Extensive knowledge of US employment legislation and best practices, with the ability to provide empathetic, practical guidance without a “HR police” approach
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with experience partnering on fair assessment, promotion, and career development practices
• Strong organization and project management skills, capable of managing multiple work streams and priorities effectively
• You have a team first mindset; you thrive in small, nimble teams where everyone rolls up their sleeves and flexes to support each other
• Self-motivated and able to thrive in a remote-first environment
• Experience with HiBob and ADP preferred
• Talent acquisition experience preferred
• Total rewards experience preferred

At Buildkite, we value kindness, autonomy, and collaboration. You’ll be joining a remote-first company at a defining moment, helping shape the systems, culture, and leadership that power our next stage of growth. You’ll have the opportunity to make meaningful, strategic contributions, and to do it in a team that values clarity, care, and a little bit of weirdness 💚

You’ll also have access to a range of benefits designed to support you in doing your best work.