Director, People Business Partners, Suno
$190-235k
5 days a week in office
AI music generation tools
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AI music generation tools
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$190-235k
5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build a future where anyone can make music.
Role
Who you are
- You are unconventional by design and you combine intellectual rigor with emotional intelligence
- You do not see People as a support function
- You see it as performance architecture
- You may have come up through HR, Strategy & Operations, consulting, or a hybrid path
- You are equally comfortable modeling a workforce plan in a spreadsheet, coaching a leader through a difficult transition, leading a sensitive investigation, or debating equity philosophy
- Business fluent: you understand financial models, product roadmaps, market dynamics
- Highly analytical: you instinctively use data to guide decisions
- Sophisticated in org design and workforce planning
- Comfortable operating at the senior leadership level with good judgment and independence
- Grounded in employment law and employee relations
- Hands-on with AI tools and energized by building AI-enhanced workflows
- Motivated by building systems that endure
- 10+ years of progressive experience in HR Business Partnering, Strategy & Operations, or related organization transformation roles
- Significant experience partnering with senior leaders in high-growth, high-complexity tech company environments
- Demonstrated success leading org design, workforce planning, and headcount budgeting at scale
- Deep experience with compensation strategy, performance systems, and talent development frameworks
- Strong grounding in U.S. employment law and employee relations; global experience is a plus
- Track record of building new functions or transforming existing ones
- Experience in tech, AI, media, or frontier industries strongly preferred
What the job involves
- This is a founding role on Suno's new People Team that offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build Suno's People Business Partner function from the ground up
- This role is ideal for an HR leader with a sharp, progressive outlook on the role that People Business Partners and Employee Relations can play in scaling organizations at the frontier of entertainment and AI
- You're motivated to push beyond what “great” looks like in this space
- You will define what modern People Business Partnering looks like at an AI-native company
- This role reports to Suno's Head of People and will sit on her Leadership Team
- We are not looking for a traditional HRBP
- We are looking for a systems thinker, operator, architect, and strategist , someone who sees the People function as core infrastructure to company performance
- Someone who understands that org design is product design
- That talent density is strategy
- That compensation philosophy shapes culture
- That employee relations, done right, protects velocity
- This role is expected to work from either Suno’s NYC or Cambridge offices 5 days a week, per Suno’s company policy
- You will design and scale Suno’s People Business Partner function from first principles , establishing the philosophy, operating model, tooling, and management cadence that supports a rapidly evolving, high-performance organization
- You will:
- Architect Organizational Strategy
- Partner with the Suno leadership team to translate business strategy into org design, workforce planning, and talent capability roadmaps
- Lead high-stakes org design work: team topologies, decision rights, span and layer optimization, and structural evolution
- Develop scalable frameworks for headcount planning, role clarity, and operating models
- Ensure our structure accelerates, not constrains, innovation at the intersection of AI and entertainment
- Elevate Talent & Leadership
- Design and operationalize Suno’s approach to talent density, succession planning, and leadership development
- Build progressive performance management systems that are clear, fair, and hold a high bar
- Coach senior leaders through scale inflection points, team evolution, and performance complexity
- Partner closely on senior leader hiring, onboarding, and bench building
- Drive Workforce Planning & Compensation Strategy
- Drive headcount modeling and budget alignment in partnership with Head of People, Finance and Talent Acquisition
- Ensure compensation and growth pathways reinforce performance, ownership, and fairness
- Integrate people analytics into every workforce decision
- Redefine Employee Relations as a Strategic Lever
- Establish a modern, principled, and high-integrity approach to employee relations
- Lead complex investigations, performance cases, and risk mitigation with clarity and sound judgment
- Build proactive systems that prevent issues before they escalate
- Ensure compliance across jurisdictions while protecting speed and culture
- Build an AI-Native People Function
- Integrate AI into workforce analytics, scenario modeling, performance insights, and operational workflows
- Experiment with AI tools to increase leverage, insight depth, and execution speed
- Develop workforce and talent dashboards and predictive insights that inform executive decision-making
- Continuously evaluate how automation and AI reshape org design and talent strategy
- Establish the PBP Operating Model
- Define engagement cadences between PBPs and leadership
- Build a small, elite team of progressive People Business Partners over time
- Set a new standard for what strategic People partnership looks like
Our take
Suno is a company leveraging AI for music creation, attempting to make it accessible to everyone, regardless of their musical background. The platform allows users to generate complete songs by inputting text prompts, breaking down the barriers that traditionally separate amateurs from professional musicians.
Unlike other AI music tools, Suno focuses on ease-of-use, enabling even those with no music theory knowledge to produce professional-sounding songs. This approach has already attracted a diverse user base, including everyday people and GRAMMY-winning artists.
Suno' rise has been fast and impressive, but it's now facing serious legal heat, including new lawsuits from independent artists. If it can defend its practices ad show respect for creators' rights, there's still a strong future ahead for the company.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2025
$250m
SERIES C
May 2024
$125m
SERIES B
Total funding: $375m
Company HQ
Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Leadership
Mikey Shulman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as Head of Machine Learning at Kensho Technologies. Also worked as a Lecturer for the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Georg Kucsko
(Co-Founder & CTO)Also works as a Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior work includes Head of AI Research at Kensho Technologies.
Martin Camacho
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as Engineering Director at Firefly Health and Chief Architect and Board Director at Kensho Technologies.
Keenan Freyberg
(Co-Founder & COO)Worked in Business Devlopment at Pinshape, and as an Associate at Capco. Also worked through several roles at Kensho Technologies.
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