Senior People Partner- HRBP

Senior People Partner- HRBP

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Smart Bear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. Smart Bear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams. Smart Bear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, Jet Blue, and Microsoft.

Smart Bear's open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 Git Hub stars from the developer community. With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, Test Complete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, Smart Bear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Join us in our mission.

Senior People Partner (HRBP)

• Partner with Engineering and Product leaders in the U.S., while also supporting G&A teams, to connect people priorities with business goals.
• Coach leaders and managers on organizational effectiveness, talent, performance, engagement, and employee relations across a growing, fast-moving environment.
• Collaborate with People Partners in EMEA and APAC on global Engineering and Product initiatives, bringing a consistent employee experience across regions.

About the Role

• Serve as a trusted People Partner to Engineering and Product teams in the U.S., with additional support for G&A, translating business priorities into practical people plans.
• Coach leaders and managers on organizational design, performance, talent development, compensation, employee relations, and team effectiveness.
• Use employee feedback, engagement insights, and people data to identify themes and partner with leaders on focused, actionable improvements.
• Partner with People & Culture colleagues to strengthen talent retention, succession, and development approaches that support business needs and employee growth.
• Collaborate with local People Partners in EMEA and APAC on Engineering and Product initiatives, balancing global consistency with local context.
• Build strong relationships across the business and People & Culture team, working flexibly across time zones when global collaboration is needed. This role reports to the Sr. Director, People Partner.

We are looking for you if you have

• 8-10 years of HR Business Partner or People Partner experience, with a track record of advising leaders in dynamic, evolving organizations; experience partnering with R&D organizations, particularly Engineering and Product, is strongly preferred.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to connect people priorities to team and company goals while keeping solutions practical and employee-centered.
• Experience coaching leaders through performance, talent, organizational change, employee relations, and team effectiveness topics.
• Comfort using employee feedback and people data to identify patterns, shape recommendations, and support thoughtful decision-making.
• Clear, collaborative communication skills and the ability to build trust and influence across levels, functions, geographies, and time zones.
• A pragmatic, curious, and inclusive approach, with sound judgment and a willingness to roll up your sleeves when needed.

Why you should join the Smart Bear crew

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our Smart Bears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

Did you know?

• Our main goal at Smart Bear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• Smart Bear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• Smart Bear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world including Galway Ireland, Bath, UK, Wroclaw, Poland and Bangalore, India.
• We've won major industry (product and company) awards including SD Times, Developer Week's Devies Award, the AI Breakthrough Award, and…