Rubrik, inc.

Sr. HR Business Partner, Security and Identity

Palo Alto, California Full Time

About Rubrik

At Rubrik, we are united by a singular, urgent purpose to secure the world’s data.  As cyber threats escalate and AI reshapes every industry, Rubrik delivers the cyber resilience that allows businesses, governments, and critical institutions to endure, adapt, and thrive. When data is secure, innovation accelerates.

We foster a culture of radical innovation where you are empowered to challenge the status quo, continuously learn and reach new heights in your career. At Rubrik, your potential is limitless because your growth is what fuels our progress. You won’t just be a part of a team; you’ll be an architect of solutions that shape the future of cybersecurity and leave a lasting footprint on the industry.

We believe every day is an opportunity to achieve your full potential and build a meaningful legacy. If you are ready to do the most important work of your career and make a permanent impact on the digital world, your journey starts here

 

About the Role 

Rubrik is seeking a seasoned, global Sr. HR Business Partner to support senior leaders across our Security & Identity business, spanning Product, Engineering, and Go-to-Market functions. This role is built for a high-impact HR leader who thrives in complexity, operates with enterprise perspective, and moves fluidly between strategy and execution.

As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will shape and deliver people strategies that accelerate business outcomes—translating business priorities into pragmatic, scalable, and high-impact people solutions. You will play a critical role in scaling the organization, integrating acquisitions, strengthening leadership capability, and evolving the operating model, while fostering a high-performance, inclusive culture.

This role requires strong systems thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to operate effectively across regions, cultures, and time zones in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Scope of Impact

  • People Strategy & Business Partnership: Partner closely with senior leaders and global HR colleagues to define and execute a cohesive people strategy aligned with business priorities. Translate business strategy into actionable people plans that drive growth, execution, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Organization Design & Operating Model: Lead organization design, workforce planning, and operating model evolution in alignment with business strategy. Enable structural and model changes that improve clarity, speed, accountability, and scalability.
  • Leadership Development: Design and deploy targeted leadership interventions that elevate performance and effectiveness. Influence leadership and succession decisions and build leadership capability to support both current and future business needs.
  • Talent Management: Shape critical talent decisions and implement talent strategies that build capabilities, strengthen pipelines, and sustain long-term success.
  • M&A: Lead HR strategy across the full M&A lifecycle, including diligence, integration planning, and post-close integration. Drive rapid, disciplined integrations that align culture, talent, structure, and systems while minimizing disruption and maximizing value creation.
  • Change Management: Lead enterprise and business-specific change initiatives tied to new organizational structures, ways of working, and leadership models, ensuring adoption, engagement and sustained impact.
  • Program Design & Execution: Design, scale, and implement global HR programs in partnership with the broader People team and Centers of Excellence.  Deliver integrated solutions that leverage the full breadth of HR capabilities.
  • Organizational Effectiveness & Culture: Leverage people analytics and insights to diagnose organizational health, identify trends, and drive data-backed decisions.

How You Create Impact

  • Apply strong business acumen to translate complex priorities into focused, executable people solutions that drive measurable outcomes.
  • Build deep, trust-based partnerships with senior leaders; influence through expertise, judgment, and credibility to shape critical talent and organizational decisions.
  • Navigate a complex, global, and matrixed org, balancing competing priorities while collaborating across boundaries to drive alignment and results.
  • Demonstrate a bias for action, ownership, and disciplined execution in high-velocity environments.
  • Leverage analytical rigor and systems thinking to diagnose challenges and deliver scalable, sustainable solutions.
  • Bring deep expertise in organization design, change management, and M&A integration within high-growth, transformational contexts.
  • Exhibit resilience and adaptability, thriving amid change and evolving business needs.
  • Model an enterprise mindset, optimizing for company-wide outcomes rather than functional silos.
  • Operate with agility across altitudes—shaping strategy while engaging directly in hands-on execution to drive results.

 

Qualifications & Experience

Required Qualifications 

  • Education & Professional Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field with 10+ years of progressive HR experience, or a Master’s degree in Business, HR, or related field with 8+ years of progressive HR experience.
  • HR Business Partnership: 3+ years of directly applicable HR business partner experience.
  • Global & Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven experience supporting complex, matrixed, and multi-regional organizations.
  • M&A: Proven experience leading full M&A lifecycle, including diligence, integration planning, and post-close integration efforts.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Master of Business Administration, Master’s Degree in Human Resources or related field. 
  • 5+ years of HR business partner experience within high-growth or technology companies.

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The minimum and maximum base salaries for this role are posted below; additionally, the role is eligible for bonus potential, equity and benefits. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the role based on U.S. location. Within the range, the salary offered will be determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US Pay Range
$180,600$271,000 USD

Join Us in Securing the World's Data

Rubrik (RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, leads at the intersection of data protection, cyber resilience, and enterprise AI acceleration. Rubrik Security Cloud delivers complete cyber resilience by securing, monitoring, and recovering data, identities, and workloads across clouds. Rubrik Agent Cloud accelerates trusted AI agent deployments at scale by monitoring and auditing agentic actions, enforcing real-time guardrails, fine-tuning for accuracy and undoing agentic mistakes. 

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Inclusion @ Rubrik

At Rubrik, we are dedicated to fostering a culture where people from all backgrounds are valued, feel they belong, and believe they can succeed. Our commitment to inclusion is at the heart of our mission to secure the world’s data.

Our goal is to hire and promote the best talent, regardless of background. We continually review our hiring practices to ensure fairness and strive to create an environment where every employee has equal access to opportunities for growth and excellence. We believe in empowering everyone to bring their authentic selves to work and achieve their fullest potential.

Our inclusion strategy focuses on three core areas of our business and culture:

  • Our Company: We are committed to building a merit-based organization that offers equal access to growth and success for all employees globally. Your potential is limitless here.

  • Our Culture: We strive to create an inclusive atmosphere where individuals from all backgrounds feel a strong sense of belonging, can thrive, and do their best work. Your contributions help us innovate and break boundaries.

  • Our Communities: We are dedicated to expanding our engagement with the communities we operate in, creating opportunities for underrepresented talent and driving greater innovation for our clients. Your impact extends beyond Rubrik, contributing to safer and stronger communities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Rubrik is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Rubrik provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Rubrik complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. 

Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please contact us at hr@rubrik.com if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

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