Senior HR Business Partner – Engineering, Product, Design

Job Description

Sr. HR Business Partner – EPD | New Relic

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at New Relic, located remotely within the United States. New Relic builds an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. This role is crucial for shaping the future of observability by ensuring the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organization has the talent strategies and organizational design necessary to achieve its global mission.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Remote, United States
• Pay: $131000–$164000 yearly
• Team: Global HRBP team supporting the Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) organization
• Mission: Align global EPD business priorities with North American regional execution, driving organizational design, multi-quarter workforce planning, and talent strategies that scale.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Executive Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor and executive coach to EPD leaders, translating engineering roadmaps and product priorities directly into high-impact talent strategies.
• Organizational Design: Diagnose business and structural challenges to design scalable team topologies, agile operating models, and resource allocation structures.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Lead multi-quarter headcount planning, skill-gap analysis, succession modeling, and talent density strategies across global tech hubs.
• Change Management: Lead cross-functional change initiatives across global locations, ensuring structural or leadership shifts are implemented with clarity and minimal disruption.
• Regional Leadership: Act as the primary regional point of contact for North America, translating global EPD priorities into local impact while ensuring employment compliance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior level HR professional with progressive experience as a Sr. HR Business Partner directly supporting Engineering, Product, Design, or core technical functions.
• Experience: 7+ years of progressive HR experience, a proven track record supporting global engineering footprint models (US, Europe, APAC/India), and extensive executive leadership coaching experience.
• Skills: Fluent in tech and SaaS concepts, able to hold high-credibility conversations with EPD leadership, proven capability in driving alignment across multi-country organizational matrix structures, and exceptional skill in strategic thinking, problem-solving, and data literacy for talent investments.
• Bonus: Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field; professional HR certification (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR, PHR); prior experience scaling engineering and product teams within cloud infrastructure, observability, or enterprise SaaS verticals.