Chainalysis Careers
Director, HRBP - Engineering
New York Office · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
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About the role
- Coach and challenge senior technical leaders on organizational health, performance management, team effectiveness, and employee relations, bringing both data and empathy to difficult conversations.
- Hold leaders accountable to Chainalysis's cultural standards as the organization scales
Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic partner to the Head of R&D and R&D's senior leadership, building and embedding our people strategy to accelerate Chainalysis's transformation to an intelligence company
- Lead organizational design and change management across R&D as teams evolve to support new operating models.
- Understand the distinct workflows and the different operating rhythms of platform engineering, data science, research, product, design, and support.
- Partner with leadership to design structures that optimize for velocity, ownership, autonomy, and cross-functional collaboration
- Drive the people side of AI transformation; help leaders understand how AI-augmented productivity is reshaping engineering roles, team sizes, and career trajectories.
- Own workforce planning and talent strategy for R&D, including succession planning, critical-role identification, and retention strategies for deeply specialized technical talent in a competitive market (blockchain, cryptography, data science, security), across our core technology hubs (NYC, Aarhus, and Tel Aviv).
- Partner with R&D leadership and Finance to ensure organizational design and headcount decisions balance growth investment with operational efficiency and cost discipline
- Help redefine R&D's operating rhythm and cultural standards; partner with the Head of R&D to reinforce an execution-oriented culture built on pride in craft, operational rigor, urgency, and transparency.
- This role is focused on building the organizational architecture for what comes next, evolving our R&D culture to support the work of the future.
Requirements
- Experience scaling an R&D organization through a period of rapid growth
- you can speak credibly about engineering workflows, product development lifecycles, platform vs. product team structures, and the distinct cultures of engineering, data science, and research.
- You have a point of view on how AI is changing the tech landscape, how it changes the nature of engineering work and team composition, to how it can be leveraged to reduce friction in people operations.
Nice to have
- Experience in blockchain, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, or fintech, particularly understanding the competitive dynamics for technical talent in these spaces
- Experience in regulated environments where security, compliance, and insider-risk considerations intersect with people strategy
- AI at Chainalysis
- AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working.
- One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality.
- AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win.
- About Chainalysis
- Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services.
Skills
- Evolve technical career frameworks and leveling to reflect the shift toward AI-native development and increased individual ownership
Benefits
- Use data to see around corners; leverage people analytics to diagnose organizational health, identify attrition risks, and surface trends before they become systemic.
Company info
- The People Team at Chainalysis is dedicated to enabling growth, building an inclusive environment, and providing the support that helps our employees do the best work of their careers.
- Chainalysis is at a defining moment, transforming from a product-based company to an intelligence platform AI native company.
- The People Team plays a critical role in ensuring our organization evolves as fast as our technology.
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