HR Manager, EMEA R&D

🏢 Starburst · 📍 United States

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai.

About the role

We're looking for an HR Manager to be a local culture and talent partner to our EMEA R&D organization. This is a hands-on, locally-embedded role where you’ll build trust with leaders and engineers face-to-face, own the full hire-to-retain lifecycle for the region, provide backup support for ongoing operations in region, and bring a local lens to programs designed centrally. This role will have direct influence on shaping the employee experience and culture in our R&D organization.

As an HR Manager, EMEA R&D at Starburst you will drive:

Culture & Team Health

Maintain an active, visible presence in the Warsaw office (minimum 3 days/week) and attend key meetings in person, not remotely.
Run regular 1:1s with first-line managers to stay close to team health and emerging feedback themes.
Conduct exit interviews for EMEA & APJ Engineering, analyzing turnover trends to partner with leaders on action plans.
Turn Feedback Survey results and other cultural indicators into specific, tracked action items for EMEA Engineering.
Surface emerging issues to key leadership and maintain a consistent pulse on employee sentiment.

Talent & Hiring

Design and run a local hiring and onboarding program tailored to the region, complementary to our global onboarding practices.
Own sourcing and screening for regional engineering roles, building and maintaining a local candidate pipeline.
Design the interview loop in partnership with the Hiring Manager and set clear expectations for interviewer goals and responsibilities.
Manage new hire logistics from start

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Starburst Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Interviewers strictly evaluate distributed query optimization expertise, deep Trino/Presto knowledge, and the ability to solve massive cross-cloud data federation challenges.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Treating SQL engines as black boxes without understanding execution plan optimization.
2. Lack of enterprise customer empathy regarding data security and governance.
3. Theoretical knowledge lacking hands-on debugging of petabyte-scale queries.

✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I optimize distributed SQL query engines to radically accelerate analytics across complex, petabyte-scale enterprise data meshes.

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