People & Culture Business Partner

ABOUT ROCKET LAB

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.

While other companies talk about it, we do it!

ABOUT PEOPLE & CULTURE AT ROCKET LAB:

Rocket Lab’s People & Culture team is responsible for looking after our most valuable asset: our people. Across our global teams, the People & Culture team supports our people and departments across recruitment, new staff orientation, compensation, training and development. They make sure our growing and diverse global team is supported and capable of delivering our projects and customer’s missions, and they’re responsible for supporting their development, nurturing their skills and talent, and retaining the world-class people already on our team.

We’re looking for an experienced People & Culture Business Partner to join our team and play a critical role in delivering our P&C Annual Operating Plan. In this role, you’ll partner closely with leaders and employees across the business to provide trusted guidance on a wide range of people matters and help shape a high‑performing, supportive workplace.

You’ll be the first point of contact for day‑to‑day P&C queries and will support everything from policy development and performance management to organisational development, payroll advice, and complex employment relationship issues. You’ll also contribute to P&C projects and help build capability across the wider team.

WHAT YOU'LL GET TO DO:

• Partner with leaders to support performance, talent, engagement, and organisational development.
• Provide advice and support on employment relations, policy creation, and P&C best practices.
• Work closely with payroll and legal teams to ensure accurate and compliant processes.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business.
• Support the smooth running of the P&C team and assist with wider P&C initiatives and training.

YOU'LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years in a similar P&C Business Partner role, or 8+ years’ experience within HR.
• A bachelor’s degree in HR or an equivalent qualification.
• Experience with payroll processes and systems.
• Strong capability with MS Office (especially Excel) and an aptitude for learning new tools quickly.
• Excellent relationship‑building, customer service, and stakeholder management skills.

If you’re a proactive HR professional who thrives in a fast‑paced environment and enjoys partnering closely with teams to deliver meaningful results, we’d love to hear from you.

If the above sounds like you apply now!

WHAT TO EXPECT

We’re on a mission to unlock the potential of space to improve life on Earth, but that’s not an easy task. It takes hard work, determination, relentless innovation, teamwork, grit, and an unwavering commitment to achieving what others often deem impossible. Our people out-think, out-work, and out-pace. We pride ourselves on having each other’s backs, checking our egos at the door, and rolling up our sleeves on all tasks big and small. We thrive under pressure, work to tight deadlines, and our focus is always on how we can deliver, rather than dwelling on the challenges that stand in the way.

Important information:

FOR CANDIDATES SEEKING TO WORK IN US OFFICES ONLY:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Rocket Lab Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. Learn more about ITAR here.

Rocket Lab provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment at Rocket Lab, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for the application/interview process for a job in the United States should contact Giulia Johnson at g.biow@rocketlabusa.com.This dedicated resource is intended solely to assist job seekers with disabilities whose disability prevents them from being able to apply/interview. Only messages left for this purpose will be considered. A response to your request may take up to two business days.

FOR CANDIDATES SEEKING TO WORK IN NEW ZEALAND OFFICES ONLY:

For security reasons, background checks will be undertaken prior to any employment offers being made to an applicant. These checks will include nationality checks as it is a requirement of this position that you be eligible to access equipment and data regulated by the United States' International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

Under these Regulations, you may be ineligible for this role if you do not hold citizenship of Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, the European Union, or a country that is part of NATO, or if you hold ineligible dual citizenship or nationality. For more information on these Regulations, click here ITAR Regulations.