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Salary: USD 160,000 - 200,000 / annual
Traversal is an AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) platform for enterprises, autonomously diagnosing, fixing, and preventing incidents in complex production environments. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and other top-tier investors, with a team of researchers from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell alongside operators from Google, Meta, Datadog, and ServiceNow.
As HR Business Partner, you will be a strategic people advisor to founders and leaders, shaping organizational health, performance, and people strategy as the company scales. This is a hybrid strategic and operational role—you'll advise on org design and people decisions while also owning core HR execution.
Key responsibilities include:
- Serving as a trusted advisor to leadership on org health, performance, team dynamics, and manager effectiveness
- Owning employee relations and performance management end-to-end, including investigations, manager coaching, and policy-aligned decisions
- Leading core people programs: performance reviews, talent reviews, compensation cycles, and manager enablement
- Owning the full new-hire experience from pre-boarding through 90 days, including onboarding, orientation, and buddy programs for both remote and in-office employees
- Managing the employee lifecycle: internal transfers, promotions, terminations, and offboarding, including exit interviews
- Serving as the first point of contact for employee and manager HR questions
- Writing and maintaining HR policies, handbooks, and processes to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment law
- Using HRIS data to identify patterns, pain points, and talent risks, then recommending practical solutions
- Building and automating HR systems and workflows using AI and automation tools to reduce manual work
- Cross-functional partnership with Legal, Finance/Payroll, IT, Recruiting, and Workplace teams
The role is fully in-office, 5 days per week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. Traversal offers a collaborative, fast-moving culture with a high bar for excellence.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5–8 years of HR experience at a high-growth company, with a mix of HRBP/generalist and people operations work
- Broad HR expertise with hands-on depth in employee relations, performance management, onboarding/offboarding, and compensation cycles; ability to handle sensitive situations independently
- Working knowledge of federal, state, and local employment law, including I-9 and eligibility verification; judgment on when to escalate to Legal
- Ability to operate both strategically (advising on org design) and tactically (fixing broken processes); comfort with ambiguity and fast-moving environments
- Proficiency with HRIS and ticketing tools; instinct for using AI and automation to create leverage
- Strong written and verbal communication; ability to build trust quickly and push back thoughtfully when needed
- Builder mindset with ability to document processes clearly so others can execute them
