Senior People Business Partner

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

As a Senior People Business Partner, you will be the trusted people advisor to a business leader and their leadership team within the CPTO organization. You'll combine business judgment with deep people expertise to help leaders build high-performing teams, navigate change, and develop talent. You'll have the credibility to challenge and coach senior leaders, and the flexibility to roll up your sleeves when a team needs hands-on support.

Strategic Partnership

• Act as a trusted advisor to the business leader and their direct reports

• Translate business plans into workforce plans, and challenge assumptions about headcount and structure

• Proactively bring data and employee insights into leadership discussions to shape decisions

Organizational Design and Change Management

• Advise on restructures, team design, spans and layers, and role clarity

• Lead the people side of change: planning, consultation, and communications

• Help managers carry their teams through disruption

Talent and Succession

• Own the talent strategy for your unit, including workforce planning and hiring priorities

• Identify high performers and future leaders, and partner with leaders to develop succession plans

• Ensure critical roles are not single points of failure

Performance and reward

• Support performance cycles and calibrate ratings for fairness and consistency

• Advise on promotions and compensation decisions

• Coach managers on addressing underperformance

Employee Relations

• Guide managers through complex cases, including grievances, disciplinary matters, investigations, absence, and exits

• Balance legal compliance, fairness to the individual, and risk to the organization

• Escalate to counsel when needed

Culture, Engagement, and Retention

• Read the temperature of your teams through attrition patterns, exit interviews, and informal conversations

• Implement a holistic talent plan, working with leaders on targeted interventions to strengthen engagement and retain and grow key talent

• Partner with leaders to define and implement a culture of excellence

Data and Insight

• Data-forward consultation: lead with data wherever possible when making recommendations, assessing progress, and making decisions

• Use metrics such as attrition, time to hire, engagement scores, promotion rates, pay equity, and span of control to spot problems early

• Turn data into a clear case for action

What You'll Add to DigitalOcean

• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 4 years as an HRBP or similar strategic partner role, ideally in a high-growth technology or cloud/SaaS company

• Experience supporting engineering and/or product organizations

• Strong track record of coaching senior leaders and influencing without authority

• Hands-on employee relations experience, including conducting investigations

• Experience leading organizational design and change, including restructures and reorganizations

• Working knowledge of