Principal Business Partner - Engineering

About Veho

Veho’s mission is to power the future of commerce by making shopping, shipping and returns seamless for everyone.

We are building a modern, end-to-end logistics infrastructure designed entirely for the ever-evolving needs of ecommerce brands and everyday consumers.

Powered by next-generation technology and a vertically integrated supply chain, Veho gives brands and their customers unprecedented control over their deliveries and removes the pain from the ecommerce post-purchase experience. We make delivery the ‘extension of the brand’ and leverage it to create deeper loyalty and trust between brands and their customers, driving customer retention and lifetime value. Our rapidly growing client list includes leading consumer brands like Hello Fresh, Zara, Macy’s, Sephora, and more.

To truly build an iconic company, we strongly believe that our people and values must be aligned with our mission. As such, we take pride in our championship team, merit-based culture. We seek team players who want to compete, win, make an impact and build a legacy, and we reward performance and impact players with generous equity and incredible career growth opportunities.

The Principal People Business Partner – Engineering & Product is a senior strategic partner to Veho’s Engineering and Product organizations, supporting a combined organization of approximately 75–100 employees. This role will partner closely with technical leadership to shape talent strategy, organizational design, workforce planning, and people-related business decisions while building scalable people practices that support Veho’s continued growth. The ideal person combines strong business acumen with deep People expertise and understands how high-performing Engineering and Product organizations operate.

They will act as both a strategic advisor and hands‑on builder, helping leaders strengthen their teams, develop talent, navigate organizational change, and maintain a high bar for performance and talent density.

• Serve as the primary strategic People partner to Engineering and Product leadership, advising on talent strategy, organizational design, compensation, workforce planning, and other people‑related business decisions.

• Develop and execute talent strategies across Engineering and Product, including succession planning, capability building, retention, and strategic hiring.

• Lead organizational design and restructuring efforts, identifying gaps, overlaps, and opportunities to improve team structure, collaboration, and execution.

• Partner with Talent Acquisition to strengthen technical hiring strategies, leveling frameworks, interview processes, and overall hiring rigor.

• Use people data and organizational insights to identify trends and make recommendations related to performance, engagement, retention, and organizational health.

• Build and improve career architecture and progression frameworks for technical ICs, managers, and Product employees.

• Develop and coach Engineering and Product managers, strengthening leadership capability around feedback, performance management, talent development, and team effectiveness.

• Partner with Finance on compensation benchmarking, pay structures, and equity considerations for Engineering and Product talent.

• Lead sensitive or complex people matters, including performance issues, leadership transitions, organizational changes, and escalated employee concerns.

• Mentor other People Business Partners and create scalable playbooks and practices that strengthen the broader PBP function.

• Leverage AI and emerging tools to improve People processes, surface insights, and increase the efficiency and scalability of the PBP function.

• 8–12 years of experience across HR, People…