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Job overview
Factory is seeking a Founding Senior HR Business Partner to act as a trusted advisor to functional leaders, shaping org design, workforce planning, and performance systems while building the HRBP function during a hyper‑growth phase following its Series C funding.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
About the Role
As Factory scales through hyper-growth off the back of our Series C, we are seeking a Founding HRBP to serve as a trusted partner to leaders across the org. This is a foundational role: you’ll provide hands-on partnership while helping build the HRBP function itself - the frameworks, playbooks, and practices that become its backbone as the company scales.
What you will do and achieve
Strategic Partnership & Org Effectiveness
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Advise functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and growth plans as the company scales.
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Own headcount planning and data integrity for your client groups
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Partner with leadership to build the playbooks and frameworks for org design, performance calibration, comp cycles, career ladders, headcount - that become the foundation for the HRBP function as it grows Employee Relations & Coaching
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Serve as a trusted advisor on employee relations, exercising judgment on what’s a coaching moment, a policy issue, or an escalation
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Coach leaders and managers on performance, feedback, and people leadership, building trust and transparency
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Contribute to L&D, People Program, and Total Rewards initiatives. Performance, Comp & Data
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Run performance reviews and the comp cycle for your client groups end to end - calibration, consistency, communication
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Bring a data- and metrics-driven approach - attrition, span of control, performance distribution to flag org risk before it becomes a retention problem AI & Ways of Working
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Use AI tools, including Factory’s own product, as a core part of how you operate - dogfooding what we build
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Operate at both altitudes: build durable systems while running the day-to-day operational load, often in the same week
Qualifications
- 8+ years in HR, with a strong track record as an HRBP or People Partner in high-growth, fast-paced tech companies
- Strong business acumen - you understand how the company makes money and decisions well enough to be a credible partner to functional leaders
- Curious and a real problem solver - you work root causes instead of pattern-matching to the nearest existing policy
- Genuinely employee-focused - you build for the people using the systems you design
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to build trust at all levels of the company
- Comfortable operating in both strategic and hands-on capacities in a dynamic, fast-changing environment
- Experience partnering with Finance on headcount planning and compensation strategy
This is an in-office position (5 days/week) in San Francisco (walking distance to Caltrain)
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