People Business Partner (Engineering)
Required skills
- HR
- People Business Partner
- high-performing teams
- engaged teams
- strategic partnership
- talent planning
- leadership development
- workforce strategy
- performance management
- succession planning
Nice to have
- SHRM-CP
- SHRM-SCP
- PHR
- SPHR
- aerospace
- defense
Role summary
We are seeking a strategic People Business Partner to partner with leaders across Engineering to build high-performing, engaged teams. This role requires 5-7 years of progressive HR experience, with 3-4+ years in a Business Partner or strategic HR role, specifically supporting engineering functions. You will provide counsel on org design, talent planning, leadership development, and workforce strategy, guide managers on performance management and career development, and own employee relations cases. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating independently in a high-growth environment, managing ambiguity and competing priorities. Experience in aerospace, defense, or high-growth tech is a plus. This position is based in Denver or Long Beach.
Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.
OUR MISSION
True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.
OUR VALUES
BENEFITS & PERKS*
*Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles
YOUR MISSION
Partner with leaders across Engineering to build high-performing, engaged teams. This is a strategic partnership role – not a generalist position – suited for a People professional with 5-7 years of experience who can build credibility fast, manage competing priorities across multiple lean functions, and operate with autonomy in a high-growth environment being built from the ground up. Reports to the Director, People Business Partner.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic Partnership Serve as the dedicated PBP for engineer function leaders, providing counsel on org design, talent planning, leadership development, and workforce strategy. Build trusted relationships through proactive consultation and a genuine understanding of the challenges unique to enabling functions — compliance rigor alongside speed, lean teams scaling fast, and non-technical career paths without established ladders.
Talent & Performance Guide managers on performance management, succession planning, and career development. Focus particularly on building professional development pathways for non-technical roles. Drive execution of people programs — performance cycles, talent reviews, engagement initiatives — and feed insights back into program design.
Employee Relations Own low-to-moderate complexity ER cases independently. Conduct investigations, advise managers, and ensure consistent, values-aligned resolution. Escalate high-stakes or legally sensitive matters to the Director, PBP.
Compensation & People Data Partner with the Compensation Manager on comp cycles for corporate teams, including market benchmarking and data analysis for professional roles. Analyze engagement, attrition, and performance data across your client groups to surface patterns, flag risks early, and contribute cross-functional themes to quarterly exec readouts.
Organizational Capability Partner with Director, PBP to assess capability gaps, prioritize learning needs across lean teams, and identify cross-functional development opportunities. Support change initiatives — restructures, workforce planning, scaling efforts — ensuring alignment with business goals and a positive employee experience throughout.
Culture Model and embed True Anomaly's values — Be The Offset, What Would It Take, It's The People — through coaching, everyday practices, and intentional focus on teams that are often distributed or operating independent
QUALIFICATIONS
COMPENSATION
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, location, and experience.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
This position will be open until it is successfully filled. To submit your application, please follow the directions below. #LI-Onsite
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
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