Director, Human Resources Business Partner

Expedia; Washington; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Director, HR Business Partner to partner with the Global Finance organization and executives to advance business outcomes through people strategies. This role sits in a high-impact, hybrid work environment based in Seattle.

You will lead talent strategy, organizational design, and leadership development, driving transformation while collaborating with global teams to deliver sustainable people programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic HR partnership and transformation delivery.
• Experience with global talent agendas and leadership coaching.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and coach senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with global People team partners and business leaders to drive talent initiatives.
• Lead organizational transformation and change management programs across the Global Finance org.
• Define and implement organizational design and governance models to align with strategic goals.
• Partner with executive leaders to translate business plans into HR program objectives.
• Design tools and processes to assess organizational health and drive engagement.
• Develop leadership capabilities and succession plans to sustain performance.
• Apply data analysis and business acumen to inform HR decisions and strategy.
• Collaborate with HR Centers of Excellence to ensure program relevance.

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Director, Human Resources Business Partner

Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including Employee Communications, Finance, Legal, People Team, Inclusion and Diversity, and Global Social Impact and Sustainability.

Expedia Group is seeking a strategic Director, HR Business Partner to work with our Global Finance organization. This alignment is intentional because these teams work closely together to deliver business outcomes. In this role, you'll work closely with executives to advance both business objectives and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions. This is a great opportunity to partner with the direct reports (SVPs) of the CFO of Expedia Group and the members of the Global Finance Leadership team.

Please note this role is based in Seattle and follows our hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three in-office days per week.

What you'll do:

• Talent Strategy: Collaborate with global People team partners and business leaders to ensure the success of client groups through strategic talent initiatives. Key areas include identifying high-potential talent, driving succession planning, and building future-focused organizational capabilities.
• Organizational transformation and change management: Change is the only constant in a growing global tech company like EG. The Global Finance org is at the forefront of many such changes and going through constant transformation to build an effective and durable organizational strategy. Therefore, the HRBP will bring in structure in ambiguity, and demonstrate emotional maturity to guide the org through the transformation.
• Organizational Effectiveness: Guide organizational design and change management strategies and implement processes, policies, and guidelines for conducting organizational reviews and improving alignment.
• Strategic Business Partnership: Partner closely with the executive leaders to define the overall talent and business strategy, anticipating long-term people needs and translating business plans into HR program objectives.
• Lead organizational structure analysis and design, identifying more effective structures and governance models to align with strategic goals.
• Define and implement organizational principles and health objectives, offering strategic insights to optimize performance.
• Design tools (e.g., surveys) to measure organizational effectiveness and assess issues related to structure, talent, and performance.
• Develop and implement programs to improve employee engagement, management capabilities, and leadership development.
• Leverage a deep understanding of business operations and challenges to propose tailored solutions that support organizational objectives.
• Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to co-create practical and impactful solutions.
• Apply systems thinking to enhance organizational efficiency, recommending improvements across policies, processes, and structures.
• Evaluate the long-term financial and operational impact of proposed solutions to support sustainable business outcomes.
• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business leaders to design and implement HR programs, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness.
• Apply strong data analysis skills and business acumen to inform decisions related to leadership, structure, and talent development.
• Works closely with business leaders to define the human resource structure, identifying workforce planning needs, leadership and management gaps, skillsets for the future and implement best-practice HR solutions to facilitate drive optimal performance.

Experience and Qualification:

• 10+ years' relevant experience
• Strategic people business partner, experienced in designing end-to-end talent agenda, organizational development, delivery of global transformation programs
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and coach senior leaders through organizational transformations.
• Analytical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills, with the drive to cut. through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives
• Comfortable using advanced executive coaching techniques to make recommendations across opposing and equally critical bu