Serves as a strategic people advisor to CPTO leaders, supporting workforce planning, organizational design, change management, talent and succession planning, performance and compensation decisions, employee relations, engagement, retention, and data-driven HR initiatives. Coaches senior leaders, guides investigations and restructures, uses HR analytics to inform decisions, and partners on culture and high-performing teams.
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.
What You'll DoStrategic 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
- 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 employment law
- Experience consulting on compensation decisions and familiarity with compensation practices
- Data fluency: comfort using HRIS and analytics tools to tell a compelling story and drive decisions
- Excellent communication, judgment, and discretion
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; HR certification (SPHR, SHRM-SCP) a plus
- Experience in a public company or a company scaling through significant growth
- Experience partnering with distributed or global teams
- Familiarity with Workday or a comparable HRIS, and performance and compensation tool
- $95,200 - $119,000
*This is a hybrid role
JR: 2026-7726
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
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