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Employee Engagement (EE) Partner - Infrastructure & Physical

Fluidstack

San Francisco, CA, US$190k – $300konsiteOther

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About this role

ABOUT FLUIDSTACK

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

ABOUT THE PEOPLE TEAM

The People team at Fluidstack exists to support our mission of building the world’s best place to do your life’s best work.

We design and operate the systems, environments, and partnerships that allow talented people to focus on meaningful problems. Our work spans from the infrastructure that keeps the organization running cleanly, to the lifecycle moments that shape employee experience, to the support that helps managers and leaders do their best work.

We care deeply about how things happen, not just whether they happen.

WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

Infrastructure and physical operations teams face distinct people challenges: rapid scaling across multiple sites, managing teams that span office and field environments, tightly coupled delivery timelines, and coordination across deeply interdependent functions. This role exists to ensure those leaders have a dedicated partner who understands their context.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We seek an experienced, kind, and thorough partner to embed and work with Fluidstack’s operations departments on people and performance matters. Initially, your coverage will be broad. As the organization scales, you’ll specialize into a narrower set of departments.

In this role, you will nurture, coach, and develop your colleagues, focusing on macro and micro development to ensure they are performing to the best of their ability in healthy, scalable ways. This will take many forms: from coaching a manager through their first difficult performance conversation to partnering with leadership on team structure to supporting someone through a career transition.

Rather than pushing obtuse business metrics, your practice is grounded in employee advocacy and looking for holistic solutions that meet people where they are while simultaneously moving the organization toward meaningful results. You default to a growth mindset; asking probing questions and providing nuanced feedback, allowing you to build strong, open, and trusting relationships.

This is not an HR compliance role. You sit at the intersection of people and performance. You help managers manage better, not by training them in a classroom, but by working alongside them when it counts.

Regular travel to FluidStack offices and team locations is expected to build and maintain relationships across your coverage area.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

FIRST 30 DAYS

- Complete onboarding and immerse yourself in the operations departments: sit in on team meetings, 1:1s (with permission), and planning sessions.

- Build trust-based relationships with managers. Understand team dynamics, pain points, and open questions.

- Map the current state of people practices across your departments: how are performance conversations happening? What’s the onboarding experience? Where are the gaps?

- Identify the top 2–3 areas where manager support would have the most immediate impact.

BY 60 DAYS

- Begin active coaching with managers on performance conversations, feedback delivery, and team-level decision-making.

- Partner with the People team to roll out any new systems (performance, engagement, onboarding) within your departments, adapting for the operational context.

- Surface department-level people risks to the broader People team with clear framing and proposed next steps.

- Establish a regular check-in rhythm with department leadership across your coverage area.

BY 90 DAYS

- Managers in your departments feel meaningfully more supported in people decisions. You can point to specific conversations or outcomes.

- You have a clear picture of people health across your coverage area: retention risks, development gaps, team dynamics.

- You’ve helped at least one People system land well in an operations department — not just deployed, but adopted.

- You are seen as a trusted partner, not a compliance function. Operations leaders come to you proactively.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

- Love of learning and intense curiosity about how people and teams work.

- Kindness and care in how you engage with colleagues, especially when conversations are difficult.

- Design thinking and problem-solving. You look for holistic solutions rather than quick fixes.

- Clarity, approachability, and precision in communication.

- You have partnered closely with managers before, not just administered HR processes, but actually influenced how leaders manage their people.

- You understand how infrastructure and operations teams work: site delivery pressure, cross-functional dependencies, field operations complexity, and the challenge of scaling teams across multiple physical locations.

- You can hold both accountability and empathy simultaneously. You don’t shy away from hard conversations, and you don’t deliver them without care.

- You read team dynamics well and can identify patterns before they become crises.

- Demonstrated experience in an HRBP, People Partner, or similar embedded role supporting go-to-market or operations teams. We care about

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