HR Business Partner

About Cape

Cape is America's privacy-first mobile carrier. Our mission is to be a force for good in global wireless. Cape was founded in 2022 by people who believe privacy is a fundamental right, not a luxury to be traded away. Our journey began when our founder recognized a critical vulnerability in our modern world: everyone relies on the same stagnant cellular infrastructure and legacy systems that track our every movement, monitor and profile our connections, and lose and sell our personal data.

Instead of accepting the status quo, we decided to fix it. National security professionals, journalists, parents, and everyone in between can stay connected and have privacy.

We didn't just build a layer on top of old tech; we built America's most private and secure mobile carrier from the ground up. By building our own network from scratch, we are able to design and build a suite of privacy and security features that no other carrier on the planet can offer.

Today, Cape provides our secure network to consumers, businesses, and government agencies alike. We closed our Series C in March 2026, and we are scaling rapidly, with the goal of giving people back control of their most personal information.

The Team

At Cape, we are the architects of a privacy-centric movement that is just getting started. We are relentless builders, constantly innovating at the edge of what's possible in telecommunications. We operate on a foundation of high trust and high expectations. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with world-class engineers, architects, and visionaries, and work across organizational lines to solve "impossible" problems and deliver mission-critical results for our users every single day.
The Role

We are looking for our first HRBP to support our technical teams and leaders. You will be a true strategic partner and make immediate impact through your expertise in leadership coaching, change management, organizational design, and talent management strategy. As a steward of Cape culture, you will coach leaders on various people matters, navigate and resolve employee relations issues, help bring our people programs to life, and more. You put people first and always use data to drive decisions.

This is a hands-on role for someone who can operate at both the strategic and tactical level in a fast-moving start up. This HRBP operates with high ownership and low bureaucracy: building the plane while flying it, with enough structure to scale without slowing teams down. This role is hybrid 3 days a week in office and reports to the Head of People.

Here are some ways you'll make an impact

• Partner with Engineering leadership on org design, team health, and talent planning
• Coach Engineering managers on performance, feedback, team dynamics, and leadership development
• Lead the Engineering side of performance cycles, promotions, and calibration
• Support employee relations needs with strong judgment, discretion, and documentation
• Use data and patterns (attrition, engagement signals, performance themes) to drive action
• Improve clarity and scalability: role expectations, leveling alignment, manager tools, onboarding feedback loops
• Flex to support other orgs and cross-company People initiatives as business needs evolve

Are you the candidate we are looking for? (Requirements for the role) You have:

• 6-10+ years as an HRBP/People Partner in high-growth environments (startup experience strongly preferred)
• Experience partnering directly with Engineering leaders and managers
• Strong coaching skills and comfort with hard conversations (performance, conflict, exits)
• Solid foundation in performance management, promotions, and employee relations
• Pragmatic, low-ego operator who builds lightweight systems that scale
• Clear communicator who can earn trust with technical teams

Nice to have

• Experience with Engineering leveling/career frameworks
• Familiarity with compensation and calibration processes
• Has supported org change (reorgs, rapid growth, leadership transitions)

Competencies

• HR Expertise : demonstrable experience and knowledge of principles, practices, and functions of effective and strategic HR (performance management, employee relations, career pathing, organizational design, talent planning, change management, total rewards, etc.).
  
  • Ability to respond quickly to manager and EE questions and needs, complaints. Ability to proactively manage a variety of ER issues. In depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day to day management of EEs, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Ability to deftly manage conflict and diffuse tensions among EEs. Ability to manage interactions to provide service and support the org.
• Consultative Skills : ability to provide people guidance to organizational stakeholders (especially leaders); ability to consult with, persuade, and influence key stakeholders and contribute to initiatives and processes in their org; cultivates, builds and maintains good relationships with peers and leaders. The ability to value and consider the perspectives and backgrounds of all parties.
• Leadership and Navigation : ability to consult with, persuade, and influence key stakeholders and contribute to initiatives and processes in their org; cultivates, builds and maintains good relationships with peers and leaders.
• Communication : actively listens; clearly and effectively shares information; demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills; seeks input from others; adapts communication to diverse audiences.
• Relationship Building : builds relationships with employees across all levels of the organization; demonstrable ability to manage interactions to provide service and support the organization [this shows up in advocacy, conflict resolution, engagement, responsiveness, influence, etc.].
• Data Driven/Analytic Reasoning : The ability to interpret information to make business decisions and recommendations. Analyzes people data with a keen sense for what's useful. Analyzes specific business challenges involving the workforce and offers solutions based upon best practices or research.
• Customer Centric : Values the importance of delivering high quality, innovative service to employees; understands the needs of the client; responds promptly and is accessible to them; follows through on commitments in a timely manner; maintains positive, long-term working relationships; assumes ownership of process issues and takes appropriate steps to mitigate problems. Gets consistently high feedback from stakeholders. Raises hand to help.
• Flexibility / adaptability : adjusts quickly to changing priorities, conditions, and challenges. Copes effectively with complexity and change. Is comfortable navigating ambiguity. Can handle business changes with ease and with a lack of frustration or feeling of defeat. Feels comfortable dealing with limited unknowns in an area they are well versed in.

Compensation:

We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location , along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create. Salary range for this role in New York, New York is $166,000-$220,000 depending on experience and interview performance.


Our benefits include:

• 401(k) match
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)
• Stipends for
  
  • Family-forming needs
  • Gender-affirming care

Our Culture & Values

• We hire excellent people, give them outsized responsibility, and trust them to execute. Every person at Cape has a proven track record of tackling hard problems and winning.
• We believe that personal privacy and national security are not at odds, and that they can be reconciled through strong technology.
• We believe companies exist to build awesome things and take care of the people who build them, so we offer top-tier healthcare, 401(k) matching, and a generous vacation policy that our team actually uses to recharge.
• We believe that a stronger company and a better product are built by people from all walks of life. We hire without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. If you are great at what you do, you belong here.

How to apply

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We reserve the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes received from outside recruiting agencies and / or individual recruiters without being responsible for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes.