Director, Human Resources Business Partner (Product)

Lensa; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Director of Human Resources Business Partner to support its Product Organization. This hybrid role requires a strategic and hands-on approach to drive employee engagement and talent strategies. The ideal candidate will have extensive HR experience, a strong business acumen, and be adept at leading change initiatives to support growth in a fast-evolving industry.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in Human Resources roles.
• Ability to influence and strategize with executives.
• Proven track record in talent development and change management.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Product leaders on workforce strategy.
• Lead initiatives for talent planning and organizational effectiveness.
• Monitor and enhance organizational health metrics.

Skills

Inclusive leadership

Organizational Design

Workforce planning

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's degree or relevant certification

Job description

Director, Human Resources Business Partner (Product)

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Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital, WD, WD_BLACK, and SanDisk Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

Come join the HRBP team at Western Digital! We are looking for a strategic HRBP to partner with executives in our Product Organization, reporting to the VP, HRBP’s of Technology. This role is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA. We come together 2-3 days a week to collaborate and connect.

In this role, you will partner closely with Product business leaders to align the Western Digital people strategy to their respective organizations. You will dive into employee engagement, retention, leader development, coaching and change management. You will be able to bring creativity to the role as you design and implement people initiatives that are specifically aligned to the business needs. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor, talent strategist and change agent supporting business growth, transformation and a high-performance culture. The ideal candidate is both strategic and hands-on, comfortable influencing at the executive level while ensuring operational excellence in HR delivery.

Job Description

• Operate as a trusted advisor by using professional credibility and strong relationships with executives to influence key priorities.
• Support and work with business teams to understand current and future goals and trends that may impact workforce needs and initiatives.
• Proactively engage with leaders on people strategy through workforce planning, location strategy, organization design and structure.
• Flawlessly execute appropriate talent planning activities that will identify talent, leadership development priorities, and succession plans.
• Lead initiatives ranging from complex to highly complex with significant impact. Innovate on existing programs to help leaders look around corners and drive better organizational results.
• Act as a change-agent as the business continues to rapidly grow and adapt to every changing market dynamic, competitive landscape, and technological advancement.
• Partner with and between our Centers of Excellence to deliver seamless processes and programs across the organization.
• Analyze trends and metrics in partnership with the Centers of Excellence to develop organizational and people strategies which improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their business groups.
• Monitor organizational health metrics and implement action plans in partnership with leaders.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality HR delivery across the organization.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent with Master's degree or relevant certification preferred
• 10-12 years of experience in Human Resources (in HR consulting, Centers of Excellence or HR Business Partner roles)
• Demonstrates inclusive leadership with an emphasis on leading with curiosity, results-orientation, accountability and developing high performing team
• Knows the business and stays up to date on key organizational impacts including product road map, talent management and short term and long-range planning. Approaches problem solving from a business-first perspective.
• Is knowledgeable about the product development and operations of the organization and understands easily the connection between talent management practices and the business.
• Has a demonstrated background in Organizational Design. Knows best practices and has experience leading a business through OD strategy.
• Is a pro at workforce planning and is a key advisor to the business in scaling, location strategy and new markets.
• Effectively analyzes and identifies people issues that are affecting business performance and can leverage the appropriate resources to resolve the critical issues.
• Looks around corners to proactively identify challenges on a global scale.
• Can align recommendations for sustainable organizational design to short term and long-range business plans.
  
  

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf) ” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf) .

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [e-mail] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

If you have questions about this posting, please contact [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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