Senior Vice President, Human Resources Business Partners

Lead the global HR Business Partner organization, including functional HRBPs, business-unit HRBPs, and the U.S. HR Business Partner network.

Lead and continuously improve the HRBP model, including accountabilities, coverage, spans, interfaces, operating rhythms, escalation paths, and service standards.

Create consistent expectations for how HRBPs diagnose business needs, frame choices, advise leaders, and follow through on enterprise and local priorities.

Use workforce data, employee signals, and business performance information to identify risks, opportunities, and actions that require leadership attention.

Partner with business and functional leaders on strategy execution, organization design, workforce planning, leadership effectiveness, talent reviews, succession, and culture.

Help leaders make sound decisions on capability, structure, performance, engagement, employee experience, and change while balancing enterprise consistency with business needs.

Act as an enterprise integrator across functions and business units, identifying themes and dependencies that require coordinated action from the HR leadership team or broader company leadership.

Represent the voice of employees and leaders in enterprise discussions, ensuring that business decisions are translated into a clear, respectful, and effective employee experience.

Build an effective working partnership with Compensation and Benefits, Talent, Learning and Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Employee Relations, Inclusion, HR Operations, and other HR leaders.

Translate business needs into clear priorities for the centers of excellence and ensure COE solutions are practical, adopted, and connected to leader and employee outcomes.

Create shared planning and operating rhythms across the HR leadership team, with clear ownership, healthy challenge, and disciplined follow-through.

Help resolve cross-HR tradeoffs and escalations in a way that protects employee trust, internal consistency, legal and regulatory compliance, and business performance.

Lead enterprise talent and succession discussions in partnership with the CHRO and HR leadership team, with particular focus on critical roles, leadership depth, and capability required for the next phase of growth.

Advise on organization design, restructuring, integration, transformation, and other significant changes with appropriate attention to execution, communication, employee impact, and country-specific requirements.

Strengthen the company's approach to leadership development, accountability, performance management, and employee engagement through practical leader routines and targeted interventions.

Ensure HRBPs are equipped to support change with clarity, empathy, pace, and sound judgment.

Assess, recruit, develop, and retain a strong HRBP leadership team and broader network with the credibility and capability to operate at enterprise scale.

Set standards for executive presence, business acumen, coaching, collaboration, confidentiality, employee relations judgment, and use of HR technology and data.

Establish meaningful measures of HRBP effectiveness, including leader outcomes, employee experience, talent health, workforce risk, adoption of HR programs, and business impact.

Build a culture of directness, accountability, service, continuous improvement, and low-ego collaboration across the HRBP community and the broader HR function.

Proven success leading a large, distributed HR Business Partner organization in a complex, global company, ideally in technology, software, or a similarly dynamic environment.

Experience partnering directly with a CEO, CHRO, executive team, business-unit leaders, and functional executives on enterprise people and organization decisions.

Track record integrating HRBPs with centers of excellence and HR operations to create a coherent, high-quality HR practice.

Strong experience with organization design, workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership effectiveness, culture, employee engagement, change leadership, and employee relations.

Demonstrated ability to lead through business transformation, restructuring, integration, growth, or other periods of significant organizational change.

Experience operating across multiple countries and workforce populations, with sound judgment regarding employment, privacy, consultation, works council, and other local-country considerations.

Evidence of building capable HR leadership teams, raising the quality of HR partnership, and creating consistent standards without becoming overly centralized or process-driven.

Strong business acumen, data fluency, executive communication skills, and the judgment to connect people decisions to performance, risk, culture, and value creation.

Enterprise-minded HR executive who can see the whole system, build trust quickly, and still drive clear decisions and accountability.

Credible, calm, and pragmatic with leaders and employees; comfortable being the visible face of HR in consequential moments.

High integrity and discretion, with strong judgment about sensitive employee, leadership, organizational, and business matters.

Direct and candid, while demonstrating empathy, respect, and the ability to meet people where they are.

Builder of strong teams and partnerships who develops others, shares credit and does not become the bottleneck.

Data-informed and action-oriented, with the ability to turn broad workforce signals into practical priorities and measurable outcomes.

Comfortable with healthy conflict: willing to challenge assumptions, clear in the room, aligned after a decision, and low ego in pursuit of the right answer.

Resilient and adaptable, with the pace, curiosity, and courage to lead through ambiguity and continued change.