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# Staff HR Business Partner, Fellow Program at Snorkel AI

- **Company:** Snorkel AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $190k–$240k
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6209641004

## Job description

## About Snorkel

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

## About This Role

The Fellow Program is a critical new initiative at Snorkel AI, designed to build and scale the expert workforce powering our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers. We are building the people foundation for a program that will grow through rolling cohorts, new geographies, and a potential workforce expected to scale into the thousands.

We are looking for a strategic, entrepreneurial Staff HRBP to help shape what this program becomes. This is not a traditional support role. You will own the people strategy and operating model for one of Snorkel’s most important growth initiatives, partnering directly with senior leaders to design how Fellows are hired, onboarded, developed, deployed, recognized, and supported throughout their employment lifecycle.

This is a rare 0-to-1 opportunity for a thoughtful builder who enjoys turning ambiguity into momentum. You will create the programs, practices, and manager capabilities that enable a new workforce model to scale with quality, speed, and a standout employee experience. The work you do will have a visible impact on our Fellows, our customers, and Snorkel’s ability to scale. This role is hybrid (3 days/week in office) in San Francisco, CA.

## What You'll Do

This role reports to the Senior Director, People Programs & Partnerships, and will focus on:

- Own the people strategy and operating model for the Fellow Program, translating ambitious program goals and workforce needs into a clear, scalable people plan.
- Partner with Fellow program leadership to operationalize the strategic direction for the program’s people architecture, including performance philosophy, talent segmentation, growth pathways, manager model, bench and redeployment approach, and key lifecycle decision points.
- Partner cross-functionally to build the core people programs that make the Fellow experience exceptional, from onboarding and early-tenure support through progression, transition, and exit.
- Design a tailored performance management framework that creates clarity, accountability, and growth, including measures of performance, evaluation criteria, review cadence, feedback expectations, and manager tools.
- Create and operationalize bespoke milestone programs, including early-tenure check-ins and reviews, to assess ramp, performance, engagement, and readiness for continued placement.
- Partner with Program Leadership, Supply, and project leaders to determine how performance data, quality signals, project outcomes, and manager feedback inform talent and workforce decisions.
- Define a compelling approach to Fellow growth and mobility, including development conversations, career pathways, and identification of Fellows who may be ready for broader opportunities at Snorkel.
- Lead cross-functional decisions on workforce design, manager capacity, organizational structure, scaling approach, and global employment strategy as the program expands.
- Serve as a strategic coach to program leaders and managers, helping them navigate talent tradeoffs, performance decisions, team design, employee relations, and sensitive people matters.
- Partner closely with Recruiting, People Operations, Total Rewards, Legal, Finance, and external employment partners to deliver a cohesive, compliant, and high-quality Fellow experience.
- Build scalable processes with the right balance of rigor and speed, creating a durable foundation for the program’s long-term growth.

## What We’re Looking For

- 8+ years of progressive HR Business Partner or People Partner experience, including experience leading people strategy for a complex business unit, workforce segment, or major organizational initiative.
- Deep performance management experience, including designing review processes, creating clear performance expectations, and coaching leaders through difficult performance decisions.
- Experience partnering on workforce planning, organizational design, team growth, manager effectiveness, and employee relations.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross-functional decisions without direct authority.
- Strong judgment and comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to identify the right problem, develop a point of view, and move work forward.
- Experience designing workforce and talent strategies for a high-growth, operationally complex, distributed, or global employee population.
- Strong business acumen and an ability to connect people decisions to operating goals, quality outcomes, workforce capacity, and program economics.
- Excellent project management skills, with the ability to lead multiple interdependent workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- A collaborative, low-ego approach and the ability to build trust with leaders, managers, and employees across functions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex people topics into simple, practical guidance.

## Nice to Have

- Experience supporting a global, distributed, or employer-of-record workforce.
- Experience supporting an hourly, operational, services, contractor-to-employee, or other high-volume workforce model.
- Experience building talent programs for technical or AI-adjacent employee populations.
- Familiarity with using performance, quality, productivity, or project data to inform workforce and talent decisions.

The salary range for this position based off of tier 1 locations such as San Francisco Bay Area, and New York is $190,000-$240,000. All offers include equity compensation. This role is hybrid (3 days/week in office) in San Francisco, CA.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role $190,000—$240,000 USD

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

## About Snorkel AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The frontier AI data lab helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier models and agentic AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest venture round in 2024; total funding $250.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources; company originated from the Stanford AI Lab

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI data development, software development, AI/ML research
- **Target customers**: B2B; frontier AI labs, enterprises, government agencies
- **Mission**: “We’re building the data and environments behind the world’s most advanced AI systems.”

## Products & Services
- **Custom Data Development**: Bespoke datasets, evaluation frameworks, and benchmark expansions for specialized AI models and agents. Type: Service / Platform.
- **Specialized Agents**: Agents grounded in expert data, evaluated against task-specific rubrics and programmatic checks. Type: AI solution.
- **Snorkel Data Series**: Curriculum-structured datasets with rubrics, reviewer guidance, difficulty tiers, and eval slices. Type: Dataset product.
- **Evaluation Research**: Proprietary frameworks like RIFT (Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy) and benchmarks such as OSWORLD 2.0 and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Type: Research / tooling.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $38.6M (LinkedIn estimate) | Total Funding $250.2M (9 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Addition, Greylock, GV (Google Ventures), In-Q-Tel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, funds managed by BlackRock, QBE Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 62.5% YoY to 801 employees; operates in 15 countries; trusted by leading AI labs and enterprises; 250+ publications at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary data development process** based on programmatic data labeling and weak supervision, pioneered at Stanford AI Lab
- **Deep academic roots** with ongoing research collaborations and peer-reviewed publications
- **Focus on frontier AI data quality** (task specification, calibrated review, provenance) rather than volume
- **Embedded delivery model** combining platform, research, and domain expertise

## Strategic Focus
- Building the data and environments for frontier models and agentic AI
- Expanding into enterprise and government deployments
- Advancing research on RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards) in low-data regimes
- Creating evaluation standards for agentic systems (e.g., Terminal-Bench, OSWORLD 2.0)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Quality first”, “Push the frontier”, “Competitive yet kind” – fast-moving, high bar, no ego
- **Locations**: Primarily San Francisco, Redwood City, and New York City, with remote/hybrid options globally
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical coverage, parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, flexible PTO, equity refresh grants, wellbeing allowance, company events
- **Engineering culture**: Work with PhDs, subject matter experts, and domain specialists on cutting-edge AI data challenges
- **Open roles**: 45 positions across Research, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Product, etc. (as of latest posting)

## Sources
1. [snorkel.ai/company/](https://snorkel.ai/company/)
2. [snorkel.ai/](https://snorkel.ai/)
3. [snorkel.ai/join-us/](https://snorkel.ai/join-us/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5990959004)

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