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Senior HR Business Partner

K2 Space· Operations
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Los Angeles, CA$120k - $170kfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior HR Business Partner at K2 Space focused on shaping culture and people strategy, partnering with leadership to drive HR initiatives across engineering and operations, ensuring compliance with labor laws, and building the HR function from the ground up in a fast-growing aerospace/tech environment.

Responsibilities

  • Strategic Business Partnership: Partner with engineering and operational leadership to anticipate workforce risks and support organizational scaling across all sites
  • Serve as a trusted, high-judgment advisor to people managers and individual contributors on core HR matters
  • Contribute to strategic initiatives that support company goals, including diversity and inclusion efforts and workforce development programs
  • Employee Relations & Compliance: Proactively identify and resolve employee relations matters before they escalate, and manage existing matters in a timely, fair, and collaborative way
  • Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws across multiple states
  • Identify, build, and implement HR policies and processes required to meet legal and contractual obligations while enabling the business to scale
  • Manager Coaching & Leadership Development: Coach managers on how to address people matters confidentially, compliantly, and with consistency
  • Build manager capability that translates into high-performing, well-supported engineering teams
  • Respond to employee questions with clear, accurate guidance on core HR functions
  • Talent Strategy & Retention: Drive internal initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention
  • Partner on succession planning and longer-term leadership development to build internal talent readiness

Qualifications

  • 8+ years as an HR Business Partner, including experience with technical, engineering, or operational teams
  • Demonstrated success operating in high-growth, fast-scaling startup environments
  • Experience in a California-based aerospace, engineering, technology, or hardware manufacturing company
  • Proven ability to influence and coach managers and individual contributors, resolving complex matters without damaging relationships, and coaching leaders toward consistently high-performing teams
  • Hands-on experience independently managing complex employee relations matters, internal investigations, and other contentious issues
  • Experience with succession planning and leadership development to build internal talent readiness
  • Direct experience with California labor and employment law, including wage and hour matters, exempt/non-exempt classifications, and employee entitlements
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, and own complex, multi-stakeholder projects
  • Direct experience with HRIS and performance management tools (e.g., 15Five, Rippling, Leapsome, Lattice, ADP Workforce Now)
  • Experience with AI tools and applications

Skills

Required:Strategic HR partnershipEmployee relations and investigationsCalifornia labor and employment law

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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