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Strategic People Partner

Airbyte

Airbyte

People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 19, 2025
Airbyte is the open-source standard for Data Movement. We enable data teams to move data from applications, APIs, unstructured sources, and databases to data warehouses, lakes, AI applications and LLMs. With our approach we are finally solving the need for extensibility and control that every company needs with data.
So far, our customers, users, and ourselves have built over 15,000 connectors and have had 200,000+ companies install Airbyte. We've raised $181M from the world's top investors (Benchmark, Accel, Altimeter, Coatue, Y Combinator, etc.) and we believe in product-led growth, where we build something awesome that all our users love.
We’re committed to providing as much context to our current employees and candidates. The Airbyte company handbook is open to all.
If you find this role exciting, we encourage you to apply even if you think you don’t meet all requirements.

The Opportunity:

The People team empowers Airbyte to achieve its mission by enabling high performance and developing a world-class team. As a Strategic People Partner with a focus on talent development, you will play a critical role in partnering with leaders to scale our organization thoughtfully and sustainably. With deep expertise in employee lifecycle strategy, manager enablement, and career development, you’ll support key functions through a blend of strategic counsel and hands-on execution.

You’ll have the opportunity not only to influence core People Team processes like performance, engagement, and org design, but also to shape and lead talent development initiatives that raise the bar across the company. As we hold ourselves to a high standard of excellence, you’ll be encouraged to bring forward and implement best practices in leadership development, capability building, and growth planning. As a key member of the team, you are driven to elevate both the people's experience and the performance of the business—and to help others rise to that same level.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead employee relations, employee engagement programming, and investigations.
  • Conduct and facilitate training related to the adoption of our people principles and cultural norms/expectations.
  • Support the Sr. Director, People in org design and structural changes to ensure consistency.
  • Monitor and help maintain accuracy of employee records using our HRIS systems.
  • Evaluate new-hire onboarding at the department level and help leaders onboard and ramp new Airbyters effectively.
  • Lead performance management activities and compensation modifications, helping leaders understand team performance and reward outperformance.
  • Identify and support programming that impacts and builds velocity within the business, specifically learning and development.

What You’ll Need:

  • 7+ years of progressive HR/ People experience
  • 4–5 years specifically in an HRBP or generalist role, ideally partnering closely with business leaders in all functions.
  • Experience across key HR disciplines like org design, performance management, employee relations, and talent development.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence leaders, drive org change, and manage through ambiguity at scale.
  • Proven ability to effectively and respectfully partner with individuals at varying levels within an organization.
  • Strong communication skills (verbal, interpersonal, listening, business writing, facilitation and presentation skills).
  • Success in high-growth environments with exposure to helping employees through change.
  • Proven performance management skills (coaching, performance improvement, career growth and judgment).
  • Advocated and championed various people and learning and development processes and programs.
  • Understanding of people-related metrics and comfort with using data as an input to decision-making
  • A learning mindset, growth orientation, intellectual honesty

We Provide

The benefits listed below are for U.S. employees.

  • Relocation - should you apply to a San Francisco based role, Airbyte will assist with U.S. relocation to make this a seamless transition and compensate you well.
  • Unlimited paid time off - we need you at your best at all times. Our expected minimum time off of 25 PTO days per year lets you schedule your work around your life.
  • Parental leave (for new parents) - we offer 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all new parents so you have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule introduced by your new bundle of joy.
  • Open book policy - we will pay for books you purchase for your professional and career development.
  • Continuous learning/training policy - we sponsor you for the conferences and training programs you feel would add to your development in the company.
  • Competitive benefits package for employees - including:
    • Blue Shield or Kaiser Medical Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
    • Dental (including child & adult ortho) & Vision Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for both employees and dependents
    • Life and AD&D Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees
    • Short-term Disability Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees
    • Long-term Disability Insurance
      • Airbyte covers 100% for employees
  • Healthcare insurance stipend - for those outside the U.S. whose countries do not provide it for free.
  • 401k - for U.S. based employees.
  • FSA - flexible spending account for U.S. based employees.
  • Work visas - all visa requests will be discussed on a case by case basis to determine if we can sponsor.

Airbyte is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, familial status, domestic violence victim status, veteran or military status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Airbyte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. Please let us know if you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability.