Human Resources Business Partner

Molex; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending and health savings

Life insurance

Disability

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Molex is seeking an HR Business Partner for the Optical Solutions Business Unit, focused on Wavelengths leadership in Fremont, CA. You will help shape talent strategy, organizational design, and leadership development to support rapid growth, while partnering with engineering, product management, and marketing teams.

You will coach managers, drive succession planning, and advance PBM principles. The role involves HR analytics, recruiting support, and ensuring compliance with California and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR or related field.
• Progressive HRBP experience or HR Manager roles.
• Strong knowledge of California employment law.
• Ability to influence and partner with leaders.
• Experience analyzing data and presenting insights.

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor to leaders, shaping people strategies and organizational design.
• Coach managers on roles, responsibilities and expectations; drive succession planning.
• Promote PBM values and culture across the organization.
• Support recruiting with effective candidate experience and onboarding.
• Execute core HR processes and leverage data to identify risks and opportunities.
• Manage employee relations matters with sound judgment and compliance.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Influence & partnership

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Your Job

As an HR Business Partner supporting the Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), you will serve as a strategic advisor to leaders, helping shape talent strategies, organizational design, and employee development initiatives that support a rapidly growing business. You will partner closely with leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, and key talent initiatives, including succession planning, leadership development, rotational programs, and university recruiting efforts. Leveraging data and insights, you will influence workforce planning, talent reviews, retention strategies, and other people-related decisions that support long-term business growth. In this highly visible role, you'll proactively identify opportunities, recommend solutions, and help build the talent capabilities needed to achieve the organization's goals.

Our Team

You will join the HR team supporting Molex's Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), a fast-growing organization focused on enabling next-generation optical connectivity solutions. This role is dedicated to supporting the Wavelengths business, partnering closely with engineering, product management, and technical marketing leaders primarily based in Fremont, CA, while collaborating with HR partners across North America. As a trusted business partner and the primary HR resource for Wavelengths leadership, you will play a key role in building talent pipelines, developing future leaders, and helping the organization scale for continued growth. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment where initiative, curiosity, and innovative ideas are encouraged and valued.

What You Will Do

Strategic Business Partnership

• Partner closely with leadership to understand business priorities, technology roadmap, and talent needs, translating them into effective people strategies
• Serve as a trusted advisor to supervisors on organization design, manpower planning, and scaling teams in support of growth and innovation.

Talent & Performance Management

• Coach managers on setting clear RREs (roles, responsibilities and expectations), deliver effective feedback, and develop capability within teams.
• Drive talent management, succession planning, and individual development discussion, develop and maintain a pipeline for succession planning to ensure future leadership and skill continuity

Culture & Principle Based Management (PBM) Advocacy

• Act as a steward of PBM culture by reinforcing values such as integrity, respect, compliance, and long-term value creation.
• Partner with employees at all levels to grow their knowledge and application of PBM.

Recruiting

• Support the recruitment process in partnership with talent acquisition team, hiring manager and leveraged recruiting capability to attract top talent
• Ensure good new hire experience, which includes 90 days check in and training programs

HR Program Execution & Analytics

• Support core HR processes including compensation planning, headcount planning, 360 feedback, etc.
• Leverage HR data and insights to proactively identify risks and opportunities

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Manage employee relations matters, including performance improvement, investigation, and conflict resolution, exercising sound judgment and discretion.
• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and full compliance with California and Federal employment laws.

Flex Support

• Assist with special projects and initiatives as assigned.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree.
• Progressive HRBP experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manger roles.
• Strong working knowledge of California employment law and employee relations best practices.
• Demonstrate ability to influence and partner with leaders
• Experience in analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data, advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
• Experience supporting optics, photonics, semiconductor, hardware, or advanced manufacturing organizations.
• Past experience working in technical or engineering -driven organizations
• Advanced skills in data analytics, proven track record to link HR strategy with HR data analytics

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $170,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• may also include infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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