Senior People Business Partner

About Semgrep

Semgrep, the leader in code security for builders, empowers invention without friction. Teams catch, flag, and fix real issues before they ship, powered by security that learns as they build. Semgrep secures code as it’s written and provides guardrails that pave the road for developers to move fast and stay secure. Built for builders and trusted by security, Semgrep lives where developers work, delivering fixes without breaking flow, and giving security teams visibility, control, and confidence. Semgrep gets smarter as you build, with AI that learns your context to cut false positives and prioritize reachable vulnerabilities, validated by 95% of security reviewers across 6M+ findings. Semgrep makes zero false positives a reality with AppSec teams triaging 80% fewer false positives across Code and Supply Chain, dramatically shrinking the backlog.

Founded in San Francisco and backed by Menlo Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sequoia Capital, Semgrep is recognized by Gartner in Application Security Testing and is trusted by leading organizations, including Snowflake, Dropbox, and Figma. Learn more at semgrep.dev.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Senior People Business Partner to join our scaling People team as we navigate our Series D growth journey. The People team at Semgrep is dedicated to building a culture where all 200+ global employees can grow their careers while feeling respected and supported to bring their best selves to work, no matter where they're located.

As our Senior People Business Partner, you'll partner closely with people leaders to build the foundation for how team members develop and advance their careers at Semgrep. You'll be instrumental in creating clear career pathways, meaningful development opportunities, and thoughtful HR initiatives that help our team grow as fast as our company does. You will thrive in this role if you believe investing in people's growth is the key to organizational success and have experience building L&D programs that actually work.

This role is based out of our San Francisco office, with an in-office expectation of 1-2 days a week (Tuesdays + Wednesdays). Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your passion for developing people and your strategic thinking skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don't meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

What you'll do

• Partner with leadership to drive People strategy that aligns with business objectives, providing counsel that shapes meaningful priorities beyond checkbox HR practices

• Act as employee champion and trusted advisor—managing complex employee relations while addressing wellbeing needs that enhance productivity and engagement

• Design career development frameworks including job architecture, leveling guidelines, and promotion criteria that create clear growth paths

• Coach managers to become world-class leaders who excel at career conversations, team development, and identifying stretch opportunities

• Guide workforce planning decisions including org design, compensation philosophy, promotion frameworks, and ensure global compliance

• Build Semgrep's L&D foundation—determining what HR structures we need now versus later, always prioritizing impact over bureaucracy

You are ideal for this role if you:

• Embrace the dynamic, uncertain environment of a Series D startup

• Have 8+ years of HRBP experience, including supporting international teams

• Have a pulse on the evolving state of HR and can help us navigate what absolutely needs to be done versus what can wait

• Have past success in building learning and development programs or career frameworks

• A track record of coaching managers to become effective developers of talent, not just performance managers

• Familiarity with modern L&D approaches and tools, with the ability to build scalable programs that don't feel corporate

• Operational excellence with HR tech stack experience (bonus points for: Rippling, Remote.com, CultureAmp, Pave, Carta)

Compensation

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,00 USD. The actual base salary will be determined based on a number of factors, which may include job-related skills, relevant experience, qualifications, location, internal equity, and market data. In addition to base salary, total compensation may include equity, variable compensation, and benefits. We view equity as a meaningful part of our compensation philosophy and a way for employees to share in the long-term value they help create. Compensation ranges are reviewed regularly and may be adjusted as the role, individual performance, or market conditions evolve.

What we offer

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you’re taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether that’s quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.

Who we are

We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.

Please Note: For US-based roles open to remote work, we are currently able to hire employees in the following states only: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.