People Partner - Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)
LondonFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
HR Business Partner embedded with Engineering, Product & Design (EPD) at Lovable to advise on org design, talent planning, employee relations, manager effectiveness, and change management as the company scales globally.
Responsibilities
- Strategic People Partnership — build deep partnerships with EPD leaders and act as a trusted advisor on the people decisions that shape the business: team design, leadership effectiveness, talent density, retention, and change.
- AI-Native People Operations — rethink how work gets done in an AI-native company: experiment with AI-enabled workflows to increase velocity and craftsmanship (e.g., manager enablement, insight generation, communications, and operating rhythms), and help EPD leaders adopt them in a thoughtful, human-first way.
- Org Design & Headcount Planning — partner with Eng Leads, Finance, Recruiting, and People Ops to bring clarity and discipline to workforce planning, reporting lines, role definition, spans/layers, contractor strategy, and future org shape.
- Performance Reviews — Run EPD's quarterly Signal Review cycle end-to-end, including manager prep, calibration, monitor/at-risk categorization, level corrections, follow-through, and clean operating rhythms.
- Talent Insights & Retention — use qualitative signal and people data to identify hot spots, flight risks, manager gaps, and team-level patterns early; translate those insights into practical interventions.
- Employee Relations & Risk Management — own complex employee situations, performance improvement plans, investigations, resignations, probation issues, and terminations for EPD in partnership with Legal and People Ops.
- Manager & Leadership Coaching — coach technical leaders through hard conversations, promotion readiness, org changes, feedback, accountability, team health, and moments where clarity matters more than consensus.
- People Program Execution — help shape and roll out scalable People programs for EPD, including manager enablement, career pathing, leveling consistency, compensation cycles, engagement follow-up, and change management.
Qualifications
- 10+ years as an HRBP or People Partner, with meaningful experience directly supporting Engineering, Product, Design, Research, or similarly technical organizations.
- Experience at an AI-native, developer tools, product-led, or high-growth technology company.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to connect people decisions to company priorities, product velocity, leadership effectiveness, and team performance.
- Excellent judgment in employee relations, including sensitive performance, conduct, probation, resignation, and termination situations.
- Comfortable giving hard feedback to senior technical leaders while maintaining strong relationships and discretion.
- Comfort with ambiguity, pace, and imperfect systems in a company where structure is still being built in real time.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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