HR Business Partner

IDEMIA; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA is seeking a strategic HR Business Partner to align people strategies with business priorities across multiple sites. You will drive workforce planning, organizational design, and talent actions to enable growth while partnering with Finance and Legal to ensure financial alignment.

You will support succession planning, upskilling, and inclusive leadership development in a global, fast-moving tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders and line managers across sites or countries to translate business strategy into a people agenda
• Drive workforce planning, organizational design, and talent actions to enable business growth
• Participate in business planning processes and provide HR insights and recommendations
• Work closely with managers and BU Controllers to understand key financial metrics and cost drivers
• Support workforce planning, training cost planning, and ensure HR investments align with financial targets
• Build partnerships with Finance, Legal, IT, and Global HR teams to deliver integrated people solutions
• Enable line managers in succession planning, career development, and performance feedback practices
• Identify skill gaps and drive upskilling and reskilling with Regional HR Head and COE
• Promote a high performance culture through performance management and addressing underperformance
• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring, development and engagement
• Oversee employee lifecycle from onboarding to exit and drive local engagement actions
• Promote culture of inclusion, psychological safety and wellbeing
• Monitor employee sentiment and act to improve retention and satisfaction
• Guide managers in handling employee relations matters fairly and consistently
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws and internal policies
• Drive core HR processes like objective setting, performance reviews, compensation and surveys
• Collaborate with Regional HR Head and COEs to ensure seamless HR service delivery
• Continuously improve local HR processes to meet evolving business needs
• Use people data and analytics to inform decisions and shape HR priorities
• Provide local insights and workforce trends to influence HR and business strategies
• Leverage HR technology to enhance efficiency and data visibility
• Lead the full HRBP activities and roll out Global HR Programs
• Provide guidelines and leadership to local HR teams
• Propose and implement HR/Business programs and initiatives
• Conduct activities for large/complex scope (country or sub-region)

Job description

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Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Purpose

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) works closely with business leaders and line managers across one or multiple sites or countries to align people strategies with business priorities. This role plays a key part in shaping the employee experience, driving organizational performance, and fostering a culture of learning, inclusion, and engagement.

Key Missions

• Partner with business leaders and line managers across one or multiple sites or countries to understand business strategy and translate it into a people agenda
• Drive workforce planning, organizational design, and talent actions that enable business growth
• Participate in business planning processes and provide HR insights and recommendations
• Work closely with managers and BU Controllers to understand key financial metrics and cost drivers
• Play an active role in the business budgeting process by partnering on workforce planning, training cost planning, and ensuring HR investments align with financial targets and evolving business needs
• Build strong partnerships with cross-functional teams including Finance, Legal, IT, and Global HR teams to ensure integrated business and people solutions
• Enable and support line managers in succession planning, career development, and building goal-setting and feedback practices across their teams
• Identify skill gaps and partner with the Regional HR Head, BU HR, Talent & Development COE, and business leaders to drive upskilling and reskilling
• Enable a high performance culture by embedding strong performance management practices, addressing underperformance and developing top talent
• Champion diversity, equity and inclusion by embedding inclusive practices into hiring, development and engagement processes
• Champion the employee experience across the full lifecycle - onboarding, growth, development, reward, recognition and exit
• Partner with managers and location leaders to drive local employee engagement actions based on feedback from surveys, 1:1 connects and other listening channels
• Promote a culture of inclusion, psychological safety and wellbeing
• Monitor employee sentiment and proactively act on signals to improve retention and satisfaction
• Support organizational changes by managing people impact, planning, communication and capability building
• Guide and coach managers in handling employee relations matters fairly and consistently
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, internal policies and ethical practices
• Identify people risks and contribute to mitigation plans
• Drive execution and adoption of core HR processes such as objective setting, performance reviews, compensation, engagement surveys and talent reviews
• Collaborate with the Regional HR Head, BU HR, COEs and HR Operations to ensure seamless delivery of HR services and programs
• Continuously improve local HR processes to meet evolving business and employee needs
• Use people data and analytics to inform decision making and shape HR priorities
• Provide local insights and workforce trends to influence local, regional and global HR and business strategies
• Leverage HR technology and systems to enhance efficiency, data visibility and decision-making
• Leads/oversees the full HRBP activities
• Adapts and rolls out Global HR Programs
• Provides guidelines, directions, and leadership support to local HR teams
• Proposes and implements HR/Business programs/initiatives.
• Conducts all of the activities for a large/complex scope (country or sub-region or subset of a BU)

Profile & Other Information

By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.

We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.

At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.

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