People Partner - Software & Platform

FluidStack Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Embed as a trusted People Partner within FluidStack’s engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to support leadership in managing people effectively during rapid growth.
• Coach technical managers on performance conversations, feedback delivery, and team-level decision-making through direct, hands-on partnership—not classroom training.
• Map and assess current people practices across technical departments, including onboarding, performance reviews, and team dynamics, identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Partner with the central People team to design, adapt, and implement HR systems (performance, engagement, onboarding) tailored to the unique rhythms of technical teams.
• Proactively surface department-level people risks—such as retention concerns, development gaps, or team friction—to the broader People team with clear framing and actionable recommendations.
• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with engineering and infrastructure leaders by attending team meetings, 1:1s (with permission), and planning sessions to understand context and pain points.
• Navigate complex team dynamics and interpersonal challenges with empathy and precision, focusing on holistic solutions rather than quick fixes or compliance-driven outcomes.
• Establish a regular check-in rhythm with department leadership to ensure ongoing alignment on people priorities and organizational health.
• Drive adoption of People systems by ensuring they are not just deployed but meaningfully integrated into daily workflows of technical teams.
• Serve as a trusted advisor whom technical leaders approach proactively for guidance on people-related challenges, not as a compliance function but as a strategic partner.
• Travel regularly to FluidStack offices and team locations to maintain strong, in-person relationships across distributed technical teams.
• Focus on the human impact of every decision, ensuring that processes and policies support employee well-being while advancing organizational goals.
• Cultivate a growth mindset by asking probing questions, delivering nuanced feedback, and fostering open, trusting relationships with managers and individual contributors alike.
• Understand the unique pressures of technical environments: sprint cycles, release timelines, IC-to-manager transitions, and ambiguous performance metrics for individual contributors.
• Advocate for employees while holding teams accountable, balancing empathy with the need for high performance and organizational scalability.
• Identify patterns in team behavior before they escalate into crises, using observational insight and deep listening to anticipate challenges.
• Contribute to building a culture where the ‘how’ of work is as valued as the ‘what,’ ensuring that management practices evolve in alignment with FluidStack’s mission of human freedom.

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated experience as an HR Business Partner, People Partner, or similar embedded role supporting technical teams (engineering, product, infrastructure).
• Proven ability to coach managers on performance conversations, feedback, and team dynamics in fast-scaling technical environments.
• Deep understanding of how technical teams operate, including sprint rhythms, IC-to-manager transitions, and challenges in evaluating unquantifiable engineering output.
• Strong design thinking and problem-solving skills with a focus on holistic, long-term solutions rather than transactional HR processes.
• Exceptional communication skills: clarity, approachability, and precision in navigating difficult conversations with empathy and accountability.
• Experience partnering with engineering organizations through hypergrowth phases where people systems lagged behind headcount expansion.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive total compensation package including salary and equity.
• Retirement or pension plan aligned with local norms.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous PTO policy aligned with local norms.

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

$195k-315k

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About FluidStack Inc.

FluidStack Inc. operates a distributed cloud platform that aggregates under-utilized GPUs in data centers and individual machines worldwide, renting them on-demand to AI researchers, startups, and enterprises for training and inference workloads. The company automates deployment, security, and billing, offering prices up to 80% below traditional hyperscalers while providing instant access to high-end NVIDIA A100, H100, and consumer GPUs through a single API and web console. Headquartered in London, FluidStack targets machine-learning engineers who need scalable, low-cost compute without long-term commitments, claiming thousands of active nodes and customers including Fortune 500 enterprises and leading research labs.

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