Culture & Engagement Partner

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company. We provide the world’s best end-to-end software supply chain security solution, combining the only proactive protection against malicious open source, the only enterprise-grade SBOM management, and the leading open source dependency management platform. This empowers enterprises to create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale.

As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central, the world’s largest repository of Java open-source software, we are software pioneers, and our open-source expertise is unmatched. We empower innovation with an unparalleled commitment to build faster, safer software and harness AI and data intelligence to mitigate risk, maximize efficiencies, and drive powerful software development.

More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype to optimize their software supply chains.

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.

Culture Analysis, Diagnostics & Employee Insights

• 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.