People Partner (Tech & Product)

<h1><strong>At a Glance</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location: </strong>Cambridge</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>In-office expectation: </strong>Flexible hybrid, one to two days per week in office.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Employment type: </strong>Permanent</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Salary: </strong>£60,000 - £70,000</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Why this role exists: </strong>To give our Technology and Product teams a genuine strategic partner who shapes and owns the people strategy behind their goals, not someone who just runs HR process.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>About Redgate</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Redgate brings together people who want to do their best work in an environment built on trust, accountability, and collaboration.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We build solutions that help data professionals securely manage the data and databases their organisations depend on, a space that's only becoming more critical as systems scale, data regulations increase, and AI adoption accelerates.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>AI at Redgate</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">By 2028, Redgate will operate as an expert-plus-agent company: domain experts amplified by AI, delivering customer value at a pace our peers can't match. AI handles the heavy lifting, our people control the judgement. Everyone at Redgate works with Claude, giving you access to the best AI tools from day one.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>Why Join Our People Team</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">● There's genuine room to bring your own ideas to the wider People Partner team: templates, calibration frameworks, how a restructure gets structured, and shape those alongside your peers rather than working them out alone in your own corner.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">● We're growing, and a lot of the people strategy isn't fixed yet. You'll have a real say in shaping it, not just delivering against decisions someone else already made.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">● You'll support Technology and Product, in a way that fits how we do things at Redgate.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>About the Role</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">This isn't a role about running HR process. You'll operate as a genuine strategic partner to the Technology and Product leadership teams, helping shape, own, and deliver the people strategy that drives their goals and, in turn, Redgate's wider goals.</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll sit inside the leadership team's regular rhythm, seeing the roadmap and trade-offs early enough to shape them, not just react once there's a people problem</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Full ownership of the people strategy for Technology and Product: headcount plan, org design, succession, and retention, agreed directly with the functional exec</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Real thought leadership beyond your own patch: spot patterns across functions (promotion criteria that don't hold up, gaps in how senior hires are onboarded) and bring them to the wider People Partner team</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Coach and challenge leaders directly, including