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Sardine is a leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, offering integrated solutions that unify data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. The company serves leading organizations including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com.
You will serve as a People Business Partner supporting the Engineering and Product teams in a fast-growing, globally distributed environment. This is a strategic HR role focused on enabling technical leaders and their teams to scale effectively while maintaining strong culture and performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Act as a trusted thought partner to Engineering and Product leaders and managers, helping them navigate growth, ambiguity, and change
- Lead organizational design efforts to ensure teams are structured for scale, with clear roles and talent aligned to priorities
- Identify talent gaps, plan for future team needs, and strengthen cross-functional collaboration
- Partner with People Operations and Legal to ensure compliance across regions
- Own performance management cycles end-to-end, including feedback, promotions, role changes, and compensation discussions
- Develop and support clear career paths and consistent leveling for technical roles
- Use people data and patterns to guide decisions on team effectiveness, engagement, and retention
- Provide empathetic support for employee relations matters, handling sensitive situations with discretion
- Coach managers through performance concerns, difficult conversations, and team conflicts
- Design and deliver learning and development initiatives for Engineering and Product, focusing on manager effectiveness and career growth
Sardine operates as a remote-first, globally distributed team with flexible work arrangements within your country of hire. The company values performance over hours worked and emphasizes work-life balance.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of experience in People roles, including 4+ years as a People Business Partner
- Experience supporting Engineering and Product leaders in scale-up or high-growth SaaS environments
- Understanding of how technical teams operate, including engineering and product collaboration, technical career paths, and leveling
- Familiarity with international employment laws and compliance
- Track record working with globally distributed teams across cultures and time zones
- Hands-on experience across organizational design, performance management, employee relations, and compensation
- Ability to build credibility with technical leaders and translate business priorities into practical People solutions
- Ability to be empathetic while engaging in difficult conversations
