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title: 'HRBP, GTM at Cursor'
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# HRBP, GTM at Cursor

- **Company:** Cursor
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cursor/736ebf73-beb1-417f-87a3-a74176399ba6

## Job description

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

We’re hiring a Senior HR Business Partner to support our rapidly scaling Go-to-Market organization. This person will partner closely with senior leaders across Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Recruiting to help build high-performing, durable teams in a fast-moving environment.

This is not a traditional HRBP role. You’ll operate as a strategic thought partner and hands-on builder in a high-talent-density company where expectations are high and the pace is fast. We’re looking for someone who combines strong business judgment, operational excellence, and a bias for action — someone willing to do whatever is needed to help the business scale effectively.

You’ll work directly with leaders on organizational effectiveness, performance, talent strategy, and leadership quality while helping define what great People partnership looks like at Cursor.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

## PARTNER CLOSELY WITH GTM LEADERSHIP

- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders across Sales, Marketing, Business Operations, and Recruiting
- Coach managers and leaders on performance, feedback, team health, organizational changes, and leadership effectiveness
- Support high-stakes decision-making and help leaders navigate rapid growth and ambiguity
- Raise the bar on accountability, talent density, and leadership quality across the organization

## DRIVE ORG DESIGN AND TALENT STRATEGY

- Partner on org design, headcount planning, team structure, leveling, and mobility
- Help leaders build scalable, high-performing teams with clear ownership and accountability
- Identify organizational gaps and proactively solve for talent, structure, and execution challenges
- Support thoughtful scaling without introducing unnecessary process or complexity

## OWN PERFORMANCE AND EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

- Drive and operationalize performance management, calibrations, promotions, onboarding, engagement, and development programs
- Navigate employee relations and sensitive situations with strong judgment, empathy, and pragmatism
- Ensure high standards are upheld consistently while maintaining a strong employee experience
- Help build lightweight, high-quality systems that scale with the business

## BUILD AND SCALE THE FUNCTION

- Partner cross-functionally with Recruiting, Compensation, Legal, Finance, and People Ops
- Build People infrastructure and operating rhythms from the ground up
- Bring structure, urgency, and follow-through to a fast-moving environment
- Operate with high ownership and jump into tactical work when needed

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 8–15+ years of experience in HRBP, People Partner, or related leadership roles supporting high-growth GTM organizations
- Strong expertise in organizational design, performance management, leadership coaching, and talent strategy
- Excellent judgment and ability to navigate complex, high-stakes situations
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and minimal structure
- Pragmatic, direct, highly execution-oriented, and deeply collaborative
- Ability to influence senior leaders through credibility and partnership, not process

## YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU

- View HR as a core business function, not a support function
- Care deeply about leadership quality, accountability, and talent density
- Prefer simple, high-quality systems over heavy process
- Thrive in fast-moving, high-expectation environments
- Enjoy building from first principles and operating close to the business

## LOCATION

This role is based in New York City (SoHo) with an expectation of domestic and international travel as needed.

## About Cursor

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Cursor is an AI coding agent and software development environment that enables developers to build, test, and ship software using natural-language instructions and autonomous agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (pending acquisition by SpaceX/xAI)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence, developer tools, software development
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprise, SMB, individual developers); trusted by over half of the Fortune 500
- **Mission/purpose**: To build the future of software development and help engineers "engineer anything"

## Products & Services
- **Cursor (AI Coding Agent)**: The flagship product — an AI-powered code editor and agent that searches codebases, edits files, runs terminal commands, and completes multi-step programming tasks from natural-language instructions. Available as a desktop IDE, web app, mobile app (iOS), and CLI.
- **Bugbot**: A code-review tool integrated with GitHub pull requests that autonomously detects bugs and issues.
- **Composer Models**: A family of proprietary agentic coding models (Composer, Composer 1.5, Composer 2, Composer 2.5) trained with reinforcement learning for long-running coding tasks.
- **Cursor Automations**: Always-on agents that run on schedules or triggers to build, maintain, and fix software.
- **Cloud Agents**: Agents that run in their own cloud environments to build, test, and demo features end-to-end.
- **Graphite**: A separate product acquired by Cursor (formerly a stack-based Git workflow tool).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $29.3 billion (Series D, November 2025); pending acquisition by SpaceX/xAI at $60 billion (announced June 16, 2026)
- **Key Metric**: $3 billion+ Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of May 2026
- **Notable Investors**: Accel, Coatue Management, Thrive Capital, OpenAI Startup Fund, Google, Nvidia; angel investors include Nat Friedman (former GitHub CEO) and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder)
- **Growth Signals**: Crossed $100M ARR in Jan 2025, $500M ARR by June 2025, $1B ARR by Nov 2025, and $3B ARR by May 2026. Headcount grew from ~300 (2025) to 579 (mid-2026). Expanding into mobile, Jira integration, and enterprise features.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary coding models (Composer series)** trained with reinforcement learning specifically for software development tasks — a deep technical moat
- **Complete codebase understanding** at any scale, enabling agents to work contextually across large, complex codebases
- **Multi-model flexibility**: Integrates models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and their own models, letting users choose the best tool per task
- **Agentic infrastructure**: Agents that run autonomously, in parallel, and across environments (terminal, Slack, GitHub, Jira, cloud)
- **Massive adoption**: Trusted by over half the Fortune 500 and millions of developers — strong network effects and brand lock-in

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling agentic capabilities**: Moving from assisted coding to fully autonomous software development agents
- **Enterprise expansion**: Building admin controls, SSO, compliance features, and usage analytics for large organizations
- **Platform ecosystem**: Expanding into adjacent tools (Jira, Slack, GitHub, mobile) to embed agents everywhere developers work
- **Model research**: Continued investment in training frontier coding models with reinforcement learning and synthetic data
- **Post-acquisition integration with xAI**: Leveraging SpaceX/xAI compute and infrastructure for even larger models

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven research environment**: Cursor describes itself as "an applied research team focused on building the future of software development" — a rare blend of R&D and product engineering
- **Talent density**: The company "obsesses over talent to an unusual degree" and designs itself as "a haven for self-motivated individual contributors"
- **Rapid growth trajectory**: From 0 to $3B ARR in ~4 years — employees work on products used by millions and see massive scale
- **Compensation**: Competitive for AI/engineering talent; top-of-market salaries and equity in a high-valuation private company
- **Work policy**: Mix of in-office (San Francisco, New York) and remote roles; many engineering roles are on-site
- **Engineering culture**: Two-day on-site final interviews with the core team; no AI tools allowed in first-round coding interviews — they value raw problem-solving
- **Team composition**: 579 employees with strong talent density from Stripe, Figma, Notion, Vercel, Graphite, Slack, Rubrik, and Plaid
- **Recent departures to**: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS — alumni are highly sought after

## Sources
1. [cursor.com](https://cursor.com)
2. [cursor.com/careers](https://cursor.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cursorai)
4. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(company))
5. [JobsByCulture](https://jobsbyculture.com/blog/working-at-cursor-2026)

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