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# Senior People Business Partner at Teleport

- **Company:** Teleport
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $148k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/goteleport/c9e5cd03-c1ee-44ff-8d2f-72a804d987f6

## Job description

## About Teleport

Don't wait for the future of infrastructure. Be part of it.

Teleport is the AI Infrastructure Identity Company. We're solving one of the hardest problems in security: giving every human, machine, workload, and AI agent a cryptographically secured identity, improving engineering velocity while maintaining security. We make trusted computing simple. This gives you the freedom, power, and autonomy to build and innovate with confidence.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we work with companies like Nasdaq, DoorDash, and Elastic to secure infrastructure for an AI world.

## ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a Senior People Business Partner, you’ll be a founding member of the Organizational Effectiveness function at Teleport. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Organizational Effectiveness, you'll be a partner to the go-to-market organization. You’ll sit close to their senior leaders and managers partnering with them to keep these organizations healthy and effective over time.

This is a strategic role for an experienced People Business Partner who knows go-to-market teams well. You’ll diagnose organizational health, spot trends and capability gaps as these teams grow, and partner with leaders to set priorities and work on what keeps teams strong at scale: manager development, org design, succession, and leadership programs you can measure. You’ll work hand in hand with our HR team, who owns the employee lifecycle globally. You’ll share context, align on priorities, and give the leaders and managers you both support one consistent experience.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- Diagnose the health of the organizations you support: how teams are doing and where they’re headed.
- Measure the effectiveness of programs and processes, and adjust based on what the data shows.
- Coach managers and senior leaders as they grow, and help them confidently guide their teams through change and navigate complex organizational challenges.
- Lead org design, team structure, and succession planning with your business leaders.
- Design leadership development and offsites that lift manager capability across the org, with a clear learning arc.
- Partner closely with the HR team, pairing your proactive work on org health with the structure and judgment they bring to how people are supported, so the People function is stronger for it.
- Bring modern tools, including AI like Claude, to work faster and sharpen how you diagnose org health, and help the managers you support do the same.

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

- 12+ years partnering with senior leaders as a People or HR Business Partner or in organizational development, or 8+ years with an advanced degree in a related field.
- Deep experience partnering with go-to-market organizations such as Sales, Revenue, Marketing, Finance and Business Operations, and fluency with how commercial teams operate, including pipeline and quota-carrying dynamics.
- A track record of developing senior-level leaders and above, and coaching managers to improve their effectiveness.
- Strength in org design, succession, change management, and measuring the effectiveness of the programs you run.
- The presence to influence senior leaders and offer a candid point of view, without formal authority.
- Sound judgment on when to act, when to bring in HR, and how to hold confidentiality, working primarily from aggregate team-health data.

## HOW WE HIRE:

Our process is designed to be straightforward and respectful of your time. We skip performative rounds and focus on what matters: understanding how you think and what you can do.

## Why Teleport

You're joining a company where the problem is real, the team is small, and your work shows up directly in the product. We're not a big company, you won't get lost in a crowd. You'll have the freedom and autonomy to do what you're great at, alongside teammates who care about doing it right and want to see you succeed. The work is collaborative, there's real room to grow, and the mission is one worth showing up for.

Remote-first and globally distributed, we're genuinely passionate about what we're building.

The Benefits

At Teleport, we believe your career is more important than a list of perks. That's why we focus on making your day-to-day the best it can be — giving you the autonomy, access, and support to do the best work of your career.

- Extensive health coverage
- Annual expense budget
- Rest and recovery policies that maximize your ability to recharge
- Investment in your future with retirement savings plans
- Professional development opportunities

Teleport is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classifications protected by federal, state, or local law.

Candidate Privacy Notice: For information about our collection and processing of job applicant personal data for this position, please see our Job Applicant Privacy Policy and Notice of Collection at goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/ http://goteleport.com/legal/apply/job-applicant/

## About Teleport

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Teleport provides a unified identity layer for infrastructure, securing access for humans, machines, and AI agents with cryptographic identity and just-in-time privileges.
- **Entity Type**: Private (valued at US$1.1bn; venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, United States (global remote team)
- **Founded**: Not explicitly stated in provided sources (industry background suggests ~2015)
- **Founders**: Ev Kontsevoy (CEO), Alexander Klizhentas (CTO), Taylor Wakefield (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Infrastructure security, identity and access management (IAM), privileged access management (PAM)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise B2B – engineering, platform, and security teams at large organizations (e.g., NASDAQ, Bloomberg)
- **Mission/purpose**: “We make trusted computing simple” – modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure to improve engineering velocity and resiliency against human factors and compromise.

## Products & Services
- **Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform**: A unified identity layer that replaces SSH keys, VPNs, and static credentials with ephemeral, cryptographically-backed access. Supports SSH, Kubernetes, databases, web applications, and agentic AI workloads. Available as open-source and commercial SaaS/self-hosted.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: US$1.1bn (stated on Teleport’s benefits page) [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/)
- **Key Metric**: Over 600 enterprise customers; 5,000+ members in the open-source community [goteleport.com](https://goteleport.com/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: “Backed by leading investors” – specific names not listed in provided sources. Customers include NASDAQ and Bloomberg.
- **Growth Signals**: Fast-growing company with a 4.6/5 rating on Gartner Peer Reviews; claims 80% reduction in time spent troubleshooting access issues and 100% elimination of standing privileges for customers. Actively expanding into AI infrastructure identity (agentic control, LLMs, MCP tools).

## Competitive Advantages
- **No credentials to compromise**: Cryptographic identity rooted in hardware; no shared secrets or static credentials.
- **Ephemeral / just-in-time privileges**: Reduces attack surface by eliminating standing privilege.
- **Unified identity for humans, machines, and AI agents**: Fragmentation solved in one platform.
- **Strong open-source community**: 5,000+ contributors and community members, driving adoption and innovation.
- **Engineering-first design**: Built by engineers for engineers, with emphasis on simplicity and velocity.

## Strategic Focus
- **Contain and control agentic AI**: Extending identity and access control to AI agents, LLMs, and MCP tooling in production infrastructure.
- **Zero-trust infrastructure access**: Continued replacement of VPNs, jump boxes, and legacy PAM with a unified identity layer.
- **Global scaling**: Hiring top talent worldwide to support a growing customer base (NASSAQ, Bloomberg, etc.) and expanding use cases.

## Why Work Here
- **Equity for all employees**: Every role receives equity; current valuation $1.1bn with opportunities to release equity [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/)
- **Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision, mental health (Headspace), minimum 4 weeks annual leave, 12 weeks parental leave, $4,800 yearly wellness benefit, 401k matching, home office stipend, internet/phone allowance [goteleport.com/careers](https://goteleport.com/careers/)
- **Culture**:
  - Remote-first / global; headquarters in Oakland but employees worldwide
  - Senior, autonomous team – “we only hire the smartest people in security”
  - Behaviors: builders, start simple and iterate, value each other’s time, assume charity, be drivers not passengers [goteleport.com/careers/culture](https://goteleport.com/careers/culture/)
  - Interview process: no live coding or whiteboarding; work-sample-based assessments
- **Engineering culture**: Designed by engineers for engineers; strong focus on open source, security, and solving complex infrastructure problems.

## Sources
1. [goteleport.com](https://goteleport.com/) – Homepage and product overview
2. [goteleport.com/about](https://goteleport.com/about/) – About page (founders, headquarters, culture)
3. [goteleport.com/careers](https://goteleport.com/careers/) – Careers page (benefits, equity, work environment)
4. [goteleport.com/careers/culture](https://goteleport.com/careers/culture/) – Culture page (behaviors, hiring philosophy)
5. [goteleport.com/about/benefits](https://goteleport.com/about/benefits/) – Benefits page (valuation, equity details, perks)

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