Principal People Team Business Partner - R&D

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to R&D executive leadership, translating business objectives into long-term workforce strategies, organizational designs, and succession plans.
• Insight-Driven Problem Solving: Synthesize complex qualitative and quantitative data—leveraging AI-driven insights and engagement analytics—to proactively identify trends, mitigate risks, and design predictive people solutions.
• Change Leadership: Guide leadership and teams through structural evolutions, hyper-growth scaling, and shifting business priorities with minimal disruption to engagement and output.
• Talent & Capability Building: Partner with business leaders and People team Centers of Excellence (COEs) to design high-impact initiatives around talent development, performance elevation, and total rewards.

Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive experience on a People/HR team, with at least 3+ years operating as a principal business partner backing complex, fast-paced corporate functions.
• Keen business acumen linking HR strategy to commercial and operational outcomes.
• Experience leading large-scale change initiatives through highly ambiguous environments.
• Proven track record building scalable, enterprise-grade programs from the ground up.
• Experience establishing credibility and trust across all levels of a distributed, virtual organization.
• Masterful communicator—presenting to executives, writing strategic proposals, delivering difficult feedback.
• High integrity with a commitment to speaking truth to power and acting with respect.

Nice-to-Haves

• AI & Tech Savvy: Embrace modern innovation, utilizing AI and advanced digital tooling as strategic force multipliers.
• Relentlessly curious about technology, team operations, and people dynamics.
• Experience synthesizing data to diagnose root causes and design predictive people solutions.