SAFE Security

Senior HR Business Partner, Product & Development

British Columbia · Senior

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About the role

You'll report to the HR Director and be dedicated to Product & Development - Engineering, Product, and R&D - Safe's largest and most tenured org, with deep domain expertise and a career structure already in place.
Profitable, PE-backed, and on a deliberate path to $250M ARR, P&D is now navigating an active AI change management challenge: reinforcing a strong engineering platform while fundamentally changing how that platform gets built.
You'll work closely with the VP of Engineering and technical leadership, with a seat at the table from day one.

Responsibilities

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will operate at all altitudes - one week working with the VP of Engineering on org design for a new product area, the next coaching a technical manager through a conversation they've been avoiding for three months.
Be the human systems partner for the AI transition.
How do you lead engineers whose craft is shifting beneath them?
How do you maintain psychological safety in a team facing that much uncertainty while still hitting delivery commitments?
Build calibration that changes decisions.
Design and run the P&D talent review - 4-box, succession, and talent mapping for technical and leadership roles - quarterly, with outcomes that matter: promotions, development plans, role transitions, and the occasional hard call that's been deferred too long.
Own performance consulting, not performance management. Partner with managers early, co-design development plans with real milestones, have the conversations others are circling, and handle exits with care and precision.
Build a manager readiness framework. Define who is ready to lead, who needs development first, and what good looks like at each stage - for an engineering manager, a senior PM, or a technical director - as a living tool the business actually uses.
Every Safer is expected to figure out where AI creates leverage in their own work - there's no approved tool list or workflow guide to follow.
As the People partner for the org furthest along on AI adoption at Safe, you're also the most visible example of what AI-augmented professional practice looks like.

Requirements

Safers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge.
That said, we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.

Nice to have

Work-Life Balance: There's no place for burnout at Safe.

Skills

8+ years in HRBP roles, with meaningful time embedded in Engineering, Product, or R&D
Change management experience inside a scaled technical org, not just a growing one
Direct partnership with VP-level engineering or product leadership, owning the relationship rather than just the process
A demonstrated track record coaching technical managers promoted from IC roles
Fluency with people analytics: attrition analysis, comp equity, and calibration distributions
Genuine curiosity about AI - actively experimenting now, not planning to start
Desired skills / Bonus points:
Experience at a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS company ($100M-$500M ARR range)
Experience leading the people side of an AI or major technical transformation
Experience revamping IC career frameworks or levelling systems
Understanding of engineering levelling: Staff, Principal, Distinguished tracks
Coaching accreditation or structured manager development work

Compensation

Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge, plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.

Benefits

They're excellent builders but many are still learning how to develop people, give honest feedback, and lead through genuine uncertainty.
Attrition trends, calibration distributions, comp equity gaps, engagement signals - the craft is in what you do with them.
Extended health, dental, health or lifestyle spending, and counseling benefits from day 1.
We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave Top-Up Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.
Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safe-organized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.

Company info

As part of the HR team, you'll join a group of HR professionals who partner directly with business leaders across Safe Software, each embedded with a specific part of the organization.
Safe builds FME, the data integration platform trusted by 40,000+ organizations in over 100 countries.
Profitable, PE-backed, and on a deliberate path to $250M
Become part of a team that finds meaningful ways to give back https://www.safe.com/about/community-initiatives/.
The hardest part of Safe's AI transformation isn't the tooling - it's the people side.
Hold the tension between delivery and transformation. This org cannot pause to transform - 40,000+ customers are relying on what Safe ships. Your job is to help leaders manage change without letting transformation become a reason to underperform.
This org cannot pause to transform - 40,000+ customers are relying on what Safe ships.

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