Principal People Team Business Partner - R&D
Strategic HR Business Partner to R&D leadership, driving organizational design, talent strategy, workforce planning, and large-scale change initiatives aligned to business goals.
About the job
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.
Skills
Hr Business Partnering, Organizational Design, Talent Management, Workforce Planning, Succession Planning, Change Management, Data Analytics, AI Tools, Strategic Advisory, Executive Communication
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