---
title: 'Principal HR Business Partner at Sayari'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/principal-hr-business-partner-sayari-united-states-5ts67ccgwgy9'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-11-03'
---

# Principal HR Business Partner at Sayari

- **Company:** Sayari
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $165k–$185k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sayari/jobs/4470086009

## Job description

About Sayari:

Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv.

Our company culture is defined by a dedication to our mission of utilizing open data to prevent illicit commercial and financial activity, a passion for exploring innovative solutions to complex problems, and an understanding that diverse perspectives lead to optimal outcomes. We foster cross-team collaboration, promote training and learning opportunities, and recognize initiative and innovation. If you like working with supportive, high-performing, and curious teams, Sayari is the place for you.

Our People Team Mission

We build elegant, user-friendly systems that help great people at Sayari do their best work. Clearly. Consistently. With pride. Our People team is here to scale our impact by enabling high performance and strategic alignment at every level of the organization.

About the Role:

We’re looking for a strategic and execution-oriented Principal HR Business Partner (HRBP) to support our US based Go-to-Market (GTM) teams partner directly with our Chief Revenue Officer. This is a high-impact role for a seasoned HR Business Partner (HRBP) who understands the pace, complexity, and customer focus of enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) organizations. You will be a thought partner to GTM leaders, supporting organizational growth, talent strategy, and leadership effectiveness during a critical phase of scale.

Key Responsibilities:

- Serve as a trusted advisor to GTM leaders across global sales, CS, marketing, and partnerships, helping to align people strategies with business objectives.
- Guide and support org design, team scaling, talent planning, and structural changes to support rapid growth and evolving business needs.
- Drive core people programs including performance management, engagement, succession planning, employee development, and change management.
- Use a data-informed approach to diagnose team health, track performance trends, and provide actionable insights to business leaders.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition on hiring strategies that support GTM scale and structure.
- Partner across the HR and leadership team to create role-specific development plans for enterprise sales and customer-facing roles.
- Support total rewards benchmarking and incentive design alignment for GTM roles in partnership with the Compensation team.
- Operate inside Sayari’s PeopleOS framework, using Claude/Cowork-based skills to accelerate the recurring prep work of the role — stakeholder briefs, performance cycle packets, calibration intelligence, and engagement synthesis — so your time goes to coaching, org design, and the judgment calls only a human can make.
- Champion our culture and values, and foster a high-performance, inclusive environment that supports retention and growth.

How You’ll Work: AI-Native by Design

Sayari’s People team runs on PeopleOS, our AI-native operating system built in Claude and Cowork. This HRBP role is expected to work inside that system, not around it:

- Use PeopleOS skills for the recurring, time-consuming parts of the role — stakeholder prep briefs, performance cycle and calibration packets, and engagement synthesis — so more time goes to coaching leaders and making judgment calls.
- Follow Sayari’s auditability-first governance model for any AI-assisted output: named employee data can be processed in our enterprise Claude instance with human review, but any output touching a hiring, performance, compensation, or termination decision requires a named reviewer’s sign-off before action, with the official record kept in the system of record (Rippling, Lattice).
- Build ongoing fluency with Sayari’s approved AI tools and surface new automation ideas to the Talent Experience pillar lead — the People Team is expected to model AI-native ways of working for the rest of the company.

What We’re Looking For:

- 8+ years of progressive HR experience, with at least 3 years as an HRBP supporting global GTM teams in an enterprise SaaS or high-growth tech company.
- Deep understanding of the revenue lifecycle, including sales motions, customer onboarding, success metrics, and partnership development.
- Demonstrated success in scaling GTM functions through people programs, leadership coaching, and organizational design.
- Proven ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels in a fast-paced, evolving business.
- Strong executive presence and communication skills; able to influence and drive alignment at all levels.
- Experience working with tools like Lattice, Rippling, or equivalent HR systems is required; knowledge of quota-based compensation structures is a plus.
- Global HR exposure or experience supporting distributed teams is strongly preferred.
- Comfort operating in an AI-native People function — using tools like Claude/Cowork to accelerate people analytics and prep work, with sound judgment about data governance, PII handling, and when a human review step is required.

The target base salary for this position is $165,000-$185,000 plus bonus and equity. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, local market variances, candidate experience and expertise, internal peer equity, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

## BENEFITS

- 100% fully paid medical, vision, and dental for employees and their dependents
- Generous time off; we observe all US federal holidays, close our office for a winter break (12/24-12/31), in addition to granting 18 PTO days and 10 sick days
- Outstanding compensation package; competitive commissions for revenue roles and quarterly bonuses for non-revenue positions
- A strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Eligibility to participate in additional benefits such as 401k match up to 5%, 100% paid life insurance (up to $100,000 coverage), and parental leave
- A collaborative and positive culture - your team will be as smart and driven as you
- Limitless growth and learning opportunities

Sayari is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply. We believe diversity and inclusion mean our team members should reflect the diversity of the United States. No employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status, genetics, or political affiliation. We strongly encourage applicants of all backgrounds to apply. Pay Range $165,000—$185,000 USD

## About Sayari

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sayari provides a risk intelligence platform powered by a world model of global commerce and the shadow economy, used for sanctions screening, supply chain risk, and national security analysis.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Growth-stage, $228M Series B from TPG)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., USA (Global HQ) with a second HQ in London, UK; offices in Canada, Israel, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Canberra.
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Farley Mesko (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Risk Intelligence, Trade Compliance, National Security, Supply Chain Risk Management, AI for Economic Security.
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and Government. Customers include >25% of the top 35 global banks, Fortune 1000 manufacturers, and U.S. federal agencies (e.g., CBP, Treasury).
- **Mission**: "We exist to empower the defenders of global systems of commerce and trade for a safer, stronger, and better world."

## Products & Services
- **Sayari Platform (Agentic System of Work)**: An AI-native operating system for risk and compliance analysts. It integrates a search engine for non-indexed records, a knowledge graph of 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions, and agentic AI that produces verifiable, source-cited reasoning.
- **Superconductor**: Evaluation infrastructure that scores every AI output against tradecraft standards before it reaches a human team, ensuring quality and auditability.
- **Commercial World Model**: The underlying data asset — a structured model of global corporate and trade records (11.7B+ longitudinal records) including hard-to-access data from secrecy jurisdictions and ephemeral sources.
- **Internal xOS Infrastructure**: The same judgment infrastructure sold to clients is used internally to run all functions (marketing, sales, CS, finance, legal, engineering) — proving the product on the company's own operations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: ~$100M Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), still founder-led.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Raised $228M from TPG (Series B, 2025). Other investors not fully detailed in public materials. Key government contracts include a $7.8M contract from CBP for UFLPA trade risk and an $8.5M Treasury contract for sanctions enforcement.
- **Growth Signals**: 4th consecutive year on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies (2025). Deloitte Fast 500 (2025). Inc. Best Workplaces (2025). SupplyTech Breakthrough (2025). Headcount of 250+ employees. Global expansion with offices across 8 countries and 24-hour coverage.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Data & Knowledge Graph**: A decade of work building the world model of global commerce, connecting 1.5B+ entities and 3B+ relationships across 250+ jurisdictions, including hard-to-access data. This data and the tradecraft expertise that interprets it have co-evolved and cannot be easily replicated.
- **Judgment Infrastructure**: Unlike black-box AI, Sayari’s agentic systems produce verifiable, source-cited reasoning that can stand up in enforcement proceedings. The "Superconductor" layer proves quality before deployment.
- **AI-Native Operations**: The company runs its own operations on the same AI infrastructure it sells, creating a compounding feedback loop where every internal interaction sharpens the product.
- **Trusted by Government & Enterprise**: Deployed at U.S. federal agencies and over a quarter of the top global banks, providing a strong moat in a regulated market.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-Native Transformation**: Rebuilding every internal function (marketing, sales, CS, legal, finance) on custom AI operating systems (xOS) — treating the company as the proving ground for its own product.
- **Agentic AI for Risk**: Moving beyond chatbots and copilots to automated loops that monitor signals, produce outputs, and route them to the right people without human prompting.
- **Global Expansion**: Deepening presence in EMEA (London HQ2, Israel engineering, Dubai sales) and APAC (Singapore, Tokyo, Canberra) to serve the fastest-growing compliance and supply chain markets.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Work**: The company directly impacts national security and global commerce integrity. The stated philosophy is "there is real good and real evil. We show up every day to contribute towards the good."
- **Technical Frontier**: Engineers work on entity resolution at scale across 500M+ companies in 250+ jurisdictions, adversarial data in multiple scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Persian), and agentic AI for risk — all on a knowledge graph of 1.5B+ entities.
- **Founder-Led & Growth-Stage**: ~$100M ARR with the speed of a startup. The company describes itself as "founded twice" — having undergone a major platform shift to AI-native operations.
- **AI-Native Culture**: Every team runs on xOS, the same judgment infrastructure sold to clients. New hires don't just ship features; they help design how a company operates when "nothing is sacrosanct and every process is a candidate for reinvention."
- **Global & Flexible**: Regional compensation, locally compliant benefits, and flexible working arrangements are standard. Engineering and data teams are based in D.C. and Canada; the company has 24-hour time zone coverage.
- **Awards**: Inc. Best Workplaces (2025), Deloitte Fast 500 (2025), Inc. 5000 (2025).

## Sources
1. [Sayari About Page](https://sayari.com/about/)
2. [Sayari Homepage](https://sayari.com/)
3. [Sayari Careers Page](https://sayari.com/careers/)
4. [Sayari LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sayarilabs)
5. [Sayari Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/sayari)
6. [Wall Street Journal - $228M Raise](https://www.wsj.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)
7. [BusinessWire - CBP Contract](https://www.businesswire.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)
8. [Press Release - Treasury Contract](https://sayari.com) (Referenced in Sayari materials)

## Other roles at Sayari

- [Forward Deployed Engineer II (Remote, US)](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-ii-remote-us-sayari-united-states-af4mzfqhkbb0) — United States
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-sayari-united-states-8m130zdw8ry8) — United States
- [Strategic Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-account-executive-sayari-united-states-z50fqdxygrmr) — United States
- [Forward Deployed Engineer I (Remote, US)](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-i-remote-us-sayari-united-states-xwa33qcrqxq6) — United States
- [Field Intelligence Analyst (Tokyo & Singapore)](https://feeny.ai/job/field-intelligence-analyst-tokyo-singapore-sayari-apac-c54387tgpn8m) — APAC
- [Field Intelligence Analyst (Remote, UAE)](https://feeny.ai/job/field-intelligence-analyst-remote-uae-sayari-united-arab-emirates-vwxwenvm6swx) — United Arab Emirates
- [Field Intelligence Analyst (London, UK)](https://feeny.ai/job/field-intelligence-analyst-london-uk-sayari-london-629nrnxx01gs) — London, United Kingdom
- [Field Intelligence Analyst (Remote, US)](https://feeny.ai/job/field-intelligence-analyst-remote-us-sayari-united-states-fcq8yry77ks0) — United States
- [Recruiting Operations Coordinator (Remote, US)](https://feeny.ai/job/recruiting-operations-coordinator-remote-us-sayari-united-states-cepntv0st6c1) — United States
- [Forward Deployed Engineer (UK)](https://feeny.ai/job/forward-deployed-engineer-uk-sayari-london-cbe3r0xxhtcv) — London, United Kingdom