People Business Partner
Hawthorne, CAJob$110–165K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed 4 days ago
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The People Business Partner will think strategically and provide daily HR support across all team levels, partnering with engineering teams to enhance talent development, performance, and employee engagement.
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Full job description
CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com. Role Overview We are looking for a People Business Partner to join our HR team. In this role you will be responsible for thinking strategically and providing daily support across all levels of teams. The role involves partnering with our engineering teams to enhance talent development and performance. Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to business owners on people-related strategies and employee engagements
- Collaborate with senior leadership to build, develop, and execute people strategies through our next iteration of anticipated growth
- Coach and advise for best practices within the team
- Provides guidance and input on business restructures, workforce planning, and succession planning
- Provides HR policy guidance and interpretation
- Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues
- Works closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention
- Autonomously lead the design, implementation, and iteration of new people programs, as well as assess and improve current people programs
- Utilize people metrics to drive key insights and decisions around growth and retention
- Building data-drive and proactive processes to attract, grow and retain our talent
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of HR Business Partner experience, preferably with engineering client groups
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience
- Experience across multiple HR/People channels
- Thrives in fast-paced and outcome-oriented environments
- An effective partner and coach to managers and leaders; delivers feedback and challenging information in a way that builds trust and collaboration
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a high level of emotional intelligence
- Data-driven and detail-oriented
Why CHAOS?
- Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
- Additional benefits: 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA, life insurance, and more
- Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual dress code
- Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses
- Team Growth: 250 employees and counting across 5 global offices
Salary Range: $110,000 -$165,000 The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations.
Recruiting Agencies: CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach. Unsolicited submissions will not be reviewed or compensated.
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How this job compares
Set against the 412 open HR jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$110–165K/yr
- California median$138–189K/yr48 salary ranges
- US median$100–166K/yr259 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $138K, is 17% below the California median midpoint ($165K) — in the middle half of HR salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 67 open HR jobs in California and 412 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; HR postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (351 postings).
- Education
- 191 of the 412 open HR jobs (46%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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