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Senior/Staff HRBP

Runway · Remote · Remote

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About Runway

Runway is building foundational Real-World Intelligence that can understand, simulate and act in the world. We offer products and services built on-top of this intelligence to empower individuals and organizations to do more in the world. Backed by SoftBank VF, Madrona and Amplify.

About the role

* Open to hiring remote across the US — we also have offices in NYC, San Francisco, and Seattle We’re looking for a Senior/Staff HR Business Partner to work directly with Runway’s leaders and teams on how they grow, organize and perform. You’ll advise managers and executives on people decisions, lead org design and talent programs, unblock teams so they can move faster and turn what you see across the business into HR priorities. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of experience in HR, including at least four as an HR Business Partner supporting fast growing teams
  • Experience at a high-growth company, ideally through periods of rapid headcount growth
  • A record of advising senior leaders and earning their trust
  • Strong employee relations experience, with sound judgment and discretion
  • Working knowledge of employment law, compensation practices and performance management frameworks
  • Clear written and verbal communication
More about this role

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science.

We believe that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence. Language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems – robotics, disease, scientific discovery. Real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes, the same way that humans do. And this kind of trial and error can be massively accelerated when done in simulation, rather than in the real world.

World models offer the most clear path to general-purpose simulation, changing how stories are told, how scientific progress is made and how the next frontiers of humanity are reached.

Our team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people who are determined to change the world. We aspire to continuously build impossible things and our ability to do so relies on building an incredible team. If you are driven to do the same, we'd love to hear from you.

*Titles posted to our careers page are updated regularly to best advertise the role and expected seniority, but internally we have a flat titling system with two types of titles: one for individual contributors and one for...

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