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title: 'Senior People Partner at Genesis'
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# Senior People Partner at Genesis

- **Company:** Genesis
- **Location:** Bay Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/genesis/909d15dc-054c-4ebd-93be-036b61f72acf

## Job description

## About the role

Genesis brings together AI research, simulation, and robotics to build general-purpose robots that can work in the real world. Our mission is to unlock unlimited physical labor. Building that company takes more than hiring exceptional people. It takes clear expectations, strong managers, honest feedback, and an organization that helps people do their best work. You’ll partner closely with leaders and teams to make that happen. You’ll help managers navigate difficult decisions, build the people practices we need as we grow, and stay close enough to the work to know whether those practices are actually helping. This is a role for someone who can discuss organizational design with a leader in the morning and work through a sensitive employee situation in the afternoon. Strong judgment, practical execution, and trust matter equally.

## What you’ll own

- Being a trusted partner to leaders. Understand their priorities, challenge their thinking when needed, and translate business goals into clear decisions about teams, capabilities, and headcount.
- Helping managers become better managers. Coach on expectations, feedback, development, team dynamics, and difficult conversations. Give managers practical support they can use immediately.
- Making performance and growth clear. Build and run lightweight approaches to goal setting, performance reviews, calibration, and career development. Help people understand what good looks like and how to grow.
- Supporting teams through change. Partner on organizational design, evolving responsibilities, leadership transitions, and communication as the company scales.
- Handling sensitive situations well. Navigate employee concerns, conflict, and performance issues with fairness, discretion, and sound judgment, bringing in Legal or local specialists when needed.
- Turning signals into action. Combine employee feedback, people data, and your understanding of the business to identify retention risks and organizational friction early.
- Making the employee experience coherent. Work with Recruiting, People Operations, Finance, and Legal to connect hiring, onboarding, development, compensation decisions, and transitions.

You’ll thrive here if

- You’ve independently partnered with senior leaders as a People Partner or HR Business Partner in a demanding, fast-growing environment.
- You earn trust with technical teams through preparation, direct communication, and consistent follow-through.
- You’ve coached managers through real performance, development, and employee relations situations.
- You can build a people practice from scratch and take responsibility for running it.
- You balance empathy with clear expectations and are comfortable addressing difficult issues early.
- You use data to sharpen your judgment while staying attentive to the context behind the numbers.
- You know when to act independently and when a situation needs specialist advice.

Bonus points

- You’ve supported engineering, research, AI, robotics, or other deeply technical teams.
- You’ve worked across France, the UK, and the US.
- You’ve helped a startup introduce its first performance, career, or manager development frameworks.
- You’ve supported a company through rapid international growth.

The offer

- Competitive base salary plus meaningful equity.
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support.
- Hybrid: 3–4+ days per week in our office.
- The opportunity to shape how a frontier AI and robotics company develops its people, supports its managers, and grows its organization.

Genesis is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

## About Genesis

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Genesis AI is a full-stack robotics company building general-purpose robots with human-level dexterity and intelligence, powered by its own foundation model and hardware.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – $105M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and London)
- **Founded**: 2024 (emerged from stealth in July 2025)
- **Founders**: Zhou Xian (CEO), Théophile Gervet (President & Co-founder), Yi-Ling Qiao (Co-founder), Tsun-Hsuan Wang (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / General-Purpose Robotics
- **Target customers**: Enterprises in manufacturing, laboratories, hospitals, and logistics; future expansion into homes.
- **Mission**: “Build the world’s most capable robots that unlock new possibilities for humans.”

## Products & Services
- **Eno (General-Purpose Robot)**: A full-body robot designed to operate reliably in factories, labs, hospitals, and homes. Driven by the GENE foundation model, it features 20 active, back-drivable degrees of freedom in its hands – matching human size and dexterity.
- **GENE-26.5 (Foundation Model)**: The AI model that powers Eno. It understands goals, reasons through changing conditions, and completes tasks end-to-end. Trained on massive human-based internet video data and proprietary simulation.
- **Data Collection Glove**: A lightweight, sensor-loaded glove worn by humans to collect high-quality manipulation data in real-world settings (e.g., lab technicians, manufacturing workers). This glove bridges the “embodiment gap” and feeds the model with human skill data.
- **Simulation System**: A proprietary simulation environment that accelerates model training and evaluation, reducing the iteration bottleneck.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$105M** (Seed round, July 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Eclipse (co-lead), Khosla Ventures (co-lead), Bpifrance, HSG; individual investors Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, Vladlen Koltun. Hardware manufacturing partner: Wuji Tech (China).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew from stealth to ~53–60 employees across Paris, Bay Area, and London (monthly growth +16% on LinkedIn).
  - 29 active job postings as of mid-2026, with a +262.5% monthly increase in openings.
  - Demonstrated a wide range of manipulation tasks (cooking, piano, Rubik’s cube, lab work) in public demos.
  - In talks with multiple customers for commercial deployment in pharma and manufacturing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack integration**: Genesis controls both the AI model and the robotic hardware, enabling tighter optimization and faster iteration than companies that only do software or hardware.
- **Human-like dexterity**: The robotic hand matches human size, shape, and 20 degrees of freedom, allowing direct transfer of human demonstration data without an “embodiment gap.”
- **Data flywheel**: The combination of a low-friction data collection glove, simulation, and egocentric video creates a scalable pipeline for building a “human skill library.”
- **World-class team**: Founders and early engineers have backgrounds from Mistral AI, NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, Apple Intelligence, Unity, Epic, and leading robotics labs (Berkeley, CMU).

## Strategic Focus
- **Go full stack**: Continue integrating model, hardware, and data collection to deliver a complete general-purpose robot.
- **Commercial rollout**: Target early customers in pharmaceutical labs, manufacturing, and other industrial settings where dexterous manipulation is critical.
- **Scale data collection**: Expand the use of the data glove (both internally and with third-party partners) to rapidly grow the model’s skill repertoire.
- **Global hiring**: Aggressively grow the team across Paris, Bay Area, and London, especially in ML, simulation, rendering, and robotics engineering.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include candor, responsibility, limitless ambition, and a joyful journey. The team is described as multicultural, optimistic, and pragmatic.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/office-based presence in Paris, San Francisco Bay Area, and London. No explicit remote policy mentioned, but the company emphasizes in-person collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Builders get to work on the hardest problems in robotics and AI – from foundation models to hardware design to data systems. The team includes pioneers of generative simulation, Diffusion Policy, and GPU compilers.
- **Notable perks**: The chance to shape a category-defining general-purpose robot; close collaboration with world-class investors and advisors; fast-growing startup with significant resources ($105M seed).

## Sources
1. [Genesis AI – Official Website](https://www.genesis.ai/)
2. [Genesis AI – Careers Page](https://www.genesis.ai/careers)
3. [TechCrunch – “Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows”](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/06/khosla-backed-robotics-startup-genesis-ai-has-gone-full-stack-demo-shows/)
4. [LinkedIn – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gs-ai)
5. [robotics.press – Genesis AI Company Profile](https://robotics.press/news/genesis-ai-company-profile/)

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