[Hiring] Culture & Engagement Partner @Sonatype

Role Description

The Culture & Engagement Partner plays a critical role in strengthening organizational culture, employee engagement, and employee experience across Sonatype. This role partners closely with People leaders, managers, Communications, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and cross-functional stakeholders to design, implement, and scale initiatives that reinforce Sonatype’s mission, values, leadership expectations, and ways of working.

This role operates at the intersection of culture strategy, employee listening, manager enablement, organizational effectiveness, and employee experience execution. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, analytical, and action-oriented People professional who can translate employee insights into measurable improvements in engagement, team effectiveness, communication, and workplace culture.

The role balances strategic awareness with hands-on execution and requires strong judgment, stakeholder partnership, and the ability to drive initiatives across distributed and global teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Organization Development, Talent Management, HR Programs, Internal Communications.
• Experience supporting employee engagement surveys, employee listening programs, action planning, and organizational feedback initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze employee insights and translate findings into actionable recommendations and stakeholder guidance.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives and working effectively across distributed or global organizations.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, project coordination, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Strong judgment, collaboration skills, and ability to influence across multiple stakeholder groups.

Requirements

• Conduct organizational culture and engagement assessments to identify trends, strengths, risks, and opportunities across teams, functions, and regions.
• Gather and analyze employee feedback using engagement surveys, pulse surveys, listening sessions, focus groups, eNPS data, and continuous listening methodologies.
• Ensure reporting strictly adheres to global employee data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and maintain employee anonymity/trust.
• Translate employee sentiment and workforce insights into actionable recommendations for leaders, managers, and People stakeholders.
• Build dashboards, reports, executive summaries, and presentations that support data-informed decision-making and action planning.
• Monitor engagement, retention, and employee experience indicators to proactively identify morale, leadership, communication, or organizational effectiveness concerns.
• Leverage evidence-based approaches and industry best practices to assess organizational readiness for change, culture initiatives, and transformation programs.
• Support the development, execution, and continuous improvement of culture and engagement initiatives aligned to Sonatype’s mission, values, business priorities, and employee experience strategy.
• Coordinate enterprise and function-level engagement initiatives that strengthen employee connection, inclusion, collaboration, accountability, and trust.
• Partner with leaders and People stakeholders to translate company-wide engagement strategies into targeted business-level and regional action plans.
• Support initiatives that improve employee experience across key moments in the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, manager enablement, learning and development, recognition, and offboarding.
• Help reinforce organizational priorities and desired ways of working through community and culture campaigns, communication initiatives, and employee engagement activities.
• Facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned, and success stories across teams and regions to strengthen organizational alignment and consistency.
• Support organizational change initiatives by coordinating communication plans, stakeholder engagement activities, rollout support, and adoption efforts.
• Partner with Communications and HR stakeholders to strengthen employee communication channels, engagement campaigns, and leadership messaging.
• Assist in developing manager-facing guidance, toolkits, resources, and enablement materials that improve manager effectiveness and consistency.
• Support initiatives that help employees understand and adopt organizational priorities, performance expectations, and operational changes.
• Contribute to organizational capability-building initiatives focused on leadership effectiveness, inclusive workplace practices, employee engagement, and team effectiveness.
• Ensure communications and engagement initiatives are aligned with Sonatype’s evolving HR operating model and organizational transformation priorities.
• Partner closely with People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Communications, Inclusion & Belonging, and business leaders to support coordinated employee experience initiatives.
• Collaborate with managers and People Partners to identify engagement gaps, workforce trends, organizational risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support global and regional HR initiatives while balancing enterprise consistency with local employee experience needs.
• Provide practical recommendations and insight to stakeholders based on employee feedback, participation metrics, workforce trends, and organizational data.
• Help improve coordination and alignment between culture strategy, engagement initiatives, manager enablement, and operational execution across the People organization.
• Research and apply emerging trends, methodologies, and best practices related to employee engagement, organizational culture, employee experience, and organizational development.
• Contribute ideas and recommendations that improve employee engagement programs, communication effectiveness, manager capability, and workplace culture initiatives.
• Promote a workplace culture grounded in respect, inclusion, accountability, collaboration, transparency, and trust.
• Model strong judgment, analytical thinking, and solution-oriented problem solving in support of organizational and employee experience goals.
• Deliver work that includes clear recommendations, rationale, business impact considerations, and actionable next steps rather than administrative execution alone.

Benefits

• 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Software Supply Chain Security
• 2026 Celebrating 15 Years of Sonatype Research Labs – Industry-leading software supply chain and open source security research
• 2026 Founding Member of the Linux Foundation Initiative for Open Source Sustainability
• 2026 State of the Software Supply Chain® Report – Continuing industry leadership in software supply chain security and AI security research
• 2025 Visionary in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing!
• 2025 AI Compliance Solution of the Year - AI Breakthrough Awards
• 2025 DEVIES Award to our SBOM Manager for a new product for its innovation and impact in developer technology
• 2024 Industry Leader in Forrester-Wave for Software Composition Analysis (2024 Q4 report)
• Constellation AST Shortlist: Sonatype has been listed on the Constellation ShortList™ for Application Security Testing for 2024
• Data Breakthrough Awards: Sonatype was announced as a 2024 winner in the "Open Source Data Solution of the Year."
• SD Times: Best in Show Security
• Fast Company Best Workplaces for Innovators 2024
• The Herd Top 100 Private Software Companies 2024
• Diversity & Inclusion Working Groups
• Parental Leave Policy
• Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)