People Business Partner Director, Technology

As Marqeta’s People Business Partner Director - Technology, you partner with a new CTO to enhance leadership capabilities and the overall Marqetan experience for our Technology teams. Your focus will involve providing leadership coaching, driving change management initiatives, and ensuring the successful adoption of various programs. As an integral member of the People Business Partner team, you will contribute to the Technology organization's development as we support leaders and teams in navigating a complex business and organizational environment. This role reports to the Head of Global People Business Partners and plays a critical role in a global, flexible-first, high-growth organization.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the U.S. or from our Oakland headquarters, with a preference for candidates who are local to the Bay Area of California. We’d love for you to join us!

The Impact You’ll Have

• Accelerate business performance by coaching and consulting with leaders and managers on people-related matters, aligning Technology talent initiatives with business priorities. 
• Partner with the CTO and their leadership team by defining and implementing standards for high-performance engineering teams, including technical career frameworks, engineering metrics, and talent density improvements
• Drive company-wide alignment and efficiency by fostering seamless cross-functional collaboration across the People Experience organization - you build effective people programs and solutions while minimizing unnecessary complexity. 
• Establish executive trust and influence by serving as a strategic partner to business leaders, you enable confident, data-informed decisions on complex people and organizational issues. You leverage data to deeply understand of the Technology team’s talent needs and make decisions that stick and can scale. 
• Elevate leadership effectiveness by coaching senior executives and leaders on talent strategy, organizational design, and employee experience, you ensure that people initiatives drive business growth and transformation. Champion a high-performance culture where teams thrive and deliver results. 
• Lead Marqeta-wide people initiatives by providing HR expertise and executing performance management initiatives, career planning, performance cycles, and engagement surveys.
• Driving organizational decision by leverage people analytics and organizational insights to advise on critical talent moves, retention strategies, and succession planning for technical leadership roles
• Design and facilitate team and talent discussions by leveraging your people and organizational expertise to drive clarity, collaboration, engagement, and alignment across the organization.

Who You Are

• Experience: You bring 10+ years of progressive experience as a People Business Partner (HRBP) or in other talent roles. At least 5 of these years have been focused on partnering with technical leaders/organizations, ideally within a technology company. You have experience in driving change management, leadership changes, organization design, talent strategy, performance management, coaching, executive relationship building, etc. 
• Problem Solver: You have an analytical mindset and a deep understanding of organizational dynamics. You uncover root causes and use data, technology, and tools (e.g., AI) and experience-informed intuition to guide your approach.
• Owner: You align people initiatives to strategic priorities, balancing short-term business needs with long-term organizational health. You keep stakeholders informed, manage risk proactively, and always deliver with integrity.
• Innovator: Whether designing org structures, rethinking performance management, or advising on talent planning, you listen to the business and bring solutions that enable the business priorities.
• Collaborator: You build strong partnerships rooted in trust, transparency, and shared goals with Technology leaders and the broader People Experience team. You easily navigate global, cross-functional relationships and bring people together to solve challenges with diverse perspectives and mutual respect.
• Doer: You act with urgency and intention. You’re comfortable rolling up your sleeves to execute and get the work done.
• Leader: You coach, influence, and inspire. You are a trusted advisor to C-suite leaders and a thought partner to peers. You lead by exam