Senior HR Business Partner, R&D

Overview

Senior HR Business Partner, R&D at BetterUp. This role partners with R&D leaders to shape how we scale technical teams, build an engineering culture, and accelerate innovation through people. You will serve as a strategic thought partner embedded in business priorities, influencing organizational design, leadership effectiveness, and talent investments.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders to align team structures, capabilities, and workflows to business goals and product priorities.
• Translate the needs of a dynamic technical organization into forward-looking talent strategies that support innovation, velocity, and long-term scalability.
• Anticipate organizational challenges and design strategic interventions—from role clarity and team design to leadership coaching and change planning.
• Use data to diagnose organizational health and influence decisions around team effectiveness, retention, engagement, and performance.
• Guide leaders through complex transitions, including scaling, restructuring, and cross-functional change, ensuring strong change narratives and employee clarity.
• Embed with your client group to provide on-the-ground leadership coaching, ensuring managers are supported, upskilled, and aligned on expectations.
• Collaborate with People teams (e.g., Talent, L&D, Total Rewards) to deliver integrated solutions that improve the employee experience and business outcomes.
• Champion the responsible adoption of AI and intelligent tooling in talent practices to enable efficiency, insight, and future-readiness for R&D teams.

Qualifications

Benefits

Equal Opportunity

BetterUp Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, BetterUp Inc. complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Base salary for this role ranges from $126,000 – $198,000, with location-based variations. New York City and other New York state locations have specific ranges as applicable. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice.

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