# People Partner

**Company**: Cursor
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://cursor.com/careers/hrbp-core-business?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_16f9a44c-140

## Description

We are looking for a trusted advisor to partner closely with functional leaders across Finance, Legal, Marketing, Operations, and People.

**Partner Closely with Functional Leaders**

- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders across Finance, Legal, Marketing, Operations, and People

- Coach managers and leaders on performance, feedback, team health, organisational changes, and leadership effectiveness

- Support high-stakes decision-making and help leaders navigate rapid growth and ambiguity

- Raise the bar on accountability, talent density, and leadership quality across the organisation

**Drive Org Design and Talent Strategy**

- Partner on org design, headcount planning, team structure, leveling, and mobility

- Help leaders build scalable, high-performing teams with clear ownership and accountability

- Identify organisational gaps and proactively solve for talent, structure, and execution challenges

- Support thoughtful scaling without introducing unnecessary process or complexity

**Own Performance and Employee Experience**

- Drive and operationalise performance management, calibrations, promotions, onboarding, engagement, and development programs

- Navigate employee relations and sensitive situations with strong judgment, empathy, and pragmatism

- Ensure high standards are upheld consistently while maintaining a strong employee experience

- Help build lightweight, high-quality systems that scale with the business

**Build and Scale the Function**

- Partner cross-functionally with Recruiting, Compensation, Legal, Finance, and People Ops

- Build People infrastructure and operating rhythms from the ground up

- Bring structure, urgency, and follow-through to a fast-moving environment

- Operate with high ownership and jump into tactical work when needed

**Requirements**

- 8–15+ years of experience in HRBP, People Partner, or related leadership roles supporting high-growth organisations

- Strong expertise in organisational design, performance management, leadership coaching, and talent strategy

- Excellent judgment and ability to navigate complex, high-stakes situations

- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal structure

- Pragmatic, direct, highly execution-oriented, and deeply collaborative

- Ability to influence senior leaders through credibility and partnership, not process

## Skills

### Required
- organisational design
- performance management
- leadership coaching
- talent strategy

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Source: [Apply at cursor.com](https://cursor.com/careers/hrbp-core-business?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)