Senior HR Business Partner - R&D

Chainalysis is a company focused on enabling growth and building an inclusive environment through its People Team. They are seeking a strategic Senior HR Business Partner to collaborate with R&D leaders, aligning people strategies with product and engineering objectives to enhance team effectiveness and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Build influential, trusted partnerships with senior R&D leaders globally to design and execute people strategies that directly support product and engineering roadmaps
• Understand business and technical objectives (from delivery velocity to quality and reliability) and translate them into an HR agenda that drives team health, productivity, and sustainable performance
• Develop a deep understanding of how our R&D teams build, ship, and operate products, serving as a thought partner on org design, leadership, and team effectiveness within your portfolio and cross‑functionally
• Coach engineering and product leaders on complex employee relations topics, including performance management, feedback frameworks, and career pathing for technical roles, and step in as a neutral mediator when needed
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and Finance on strategic headcount planning for R&D – identifying critical technical roles, succession pipelines, and hiring priorities that keep us ahead of business needs

Requirements:

• Bring strong HR expertise and a proven track record as a thought partner to senior leaders, ideally within or adjacent to technical or product organizations
• Are skilled at navigating and facilitating change in fast‑moving environments, with the ability to influence, create alignment, and build durable support for new ideas and initiatives
• Have experience working across global employment laws and HR practices
• Are comfortable juggling multiple complex projects at once, setting crisp priorities, and delivering against tight timelines
• Are innately curious, data‑driven, and operate with a high sense of urgency that turns insight into action and measurable results
• High‑growth startup or scale‑up experience, especially supporting R&D or technical teams
• Experience in web3 / blockchain or adjacent crypto companies
• Experience in SaaS environments and subscription-based business models
• Demonstrated success scaling technical organizations or teams (e.g., engineering, product, data, security)
• Familiarity partnering with employees across US, UK, Denmark, and Israel in particular is a plus