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Salary: USD 160,000 - 192,000 / annual
TRM Labs is a Series C AI-powered intelligence platform helping public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The company is scaling rapidly and seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to serve as a strategic advisor to managers and senior leaders.
In this role, you will be a key member of a three-person HRBP team, partnering across R&D, GTM, and G&A functions. You will own high-impact people initiatives including retention strategy, organizational design, performance management, employee relations, manager development, and talent planning. Your responsibilities include:
- Developing and executing retention programs and action plans to reduce voluntary attrition and increase engagement
- Advising senior leaders on organizational structure, scaling, and change management with candid feedback
- Connecting talent strategy to business priorities and helping leaders evaluate people-related decisions
- Providing ongoing coaching and targeted development programs to managers
- Managing employee relations cases from intake through resolution, including investigations and documentation
- Turning engagement survey results into actionable team-level plans
- Leading proactive organizational design and workforce planning initiatives
- Building scalable systems and AI-native workflows that enhance employee, manager, and leader experiences
- Guiding leaders through restructures and ambiguous change scenarios
- Developing frameworks and programs that support talent growth and career development
TRM operates at high velocity with a distributed-first model across hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore. The team uses async-first communication with 4-hour minimum overlap during US Pacific business hours (7am–12pm PT). You will travel 2–4 times annually for team offsites.
The culture emphasizes AI fluency as a baseline expectation. You will be expected to use AI daily to accelerate workflows, structure problems, improve output quality, and increase leverage. The company moves fast, expects high ownership and accountability, and operates with ambiguity. This is a high-stakes, mission-driven environment where people decisions directly impact TRM's ability to achieve its mission of making the world safer.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years in People/HR, including time as an HRBP advising managers and senior leaders
- Track record of coaching executives and managers through change on topics including org design, talent density, performance culture, employee investigations, and talent strategy
- Experience leading change in ambiguous, fast-moving environments, including restructures without established playbooks
- Sound judgment and high integrity in confidential, high-stakes situations
- Credibility with demanding technical and engineering teams
- Strategic range with willingness to get hands-on (e.g., planning org change and running initial conversations)
- Hands-on AI builder who uses AI daily and has built automations or agentic workflows for HRBP work; career pathways tools or similar are strong pluses
- Fluency with people data and ability to use quantitative and qualitative insights to shape strategy and measure business impact
- Experience navigating multi-country employment is a plus
