People Consultant

NetApp, Inc.; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp is seeking an experienced People Consultant to shape and deliver global capability within a new HR operating model. You will elevate manager effectiveness, enhance the employee experience, and support a high-achievement culture. This hybrid role requires in-office presence three days per week at our Raleigh, NC office.

You will work across coaching, employee relations, performance management, and HR operations to drive scalable, compliant people solutions and positive business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in employee relations, HR generalist, or HR business partner roles.
• Issue resolution: ability to make recommendations and resolve sensitive employment issues.
• Legal & compliance: strong knowledge of current employment law and HR policies.
• Stakeholder management: advise a wide range of stakeholders balancing compliance and business needs.
• Influencing skills: ability to drive resolution on complex employee matters.

Responsibilities

• Trusted advisory and coaching to managers and employees on sensitive work issues.
• Triage and support managers to resolve issues not requiring formal investigations, with legal collaboration.
• Assist managers with underperformance cases, coaching, and performance improvement plans.
• Collaborate with HR Operations to implement HR processes and transactions.
• Lead ad-hoc cross-functional HR/Partner projects when needed.
• Build and maintain relationships with employees, people leaders, HR, and Legal.

Skills

Employee relations

HRBP

Coaching

Job description

Job Summary

We are recharging how HR delivers impact at NetApp.

As an Individual Contributor within the People Consultant (PC) function, you will play a critical role in shaping and delivering global capability at the center of our next generation HR Operating model. This team is designed to elevate manager effectiveness, strengthen employee experience, and support a high achievement culture.

This is a unique opportunity to help build and scale a new global function, contributing directly to business performance by enabling better people decisions and delivering high impact, employee and manager facing solutions.

This is a hybrid role with in office requirements of 3 days per week to our Raleigh, NC office.

About The People Consulting Team

The People Consultant team is chartered to empower and enable people managers through targeted coaching, proactively resolve employee relations risks, and seamlessly execute critical HR programs to foster a high-performing, compliant, and supportive workplace. Responsibilities include:

• Elevate manager decision quality through expert coaching, performance management guidance, and real-time advisory on complex employee situations
• Translate case insights into scalable solutions, working with the HR Leadership team to identify systemic gaps and drive improvements in policies, tools, training, and HR programs
• Act as a critical feedback loop for the business, surfacing trends and insights that inform Talent, HR, and business strategy

What You'll Do

• Trusted Advisory & Coaching: Engage as a trusted advisor to coach managers and employees on sensitive work-related issues, including performance management, conflict resolution, and the interpretation of company policy, culture, and values.
• Employee Relations: Triage and support managers and employees resolve issues that do not require formal investigation but are barriers, pose concern to morale or company culture. Work with legal on formal investigation close-outs to ensure that coaching and actions are completed in an effective and timely manner.
• Employee & Performance Management: Assist managers to navigate underperformance including effective documented coaching, drafting managing performance improvement plans, balancing speed, compliance, fairness, employee experience and business needs.
• HR Operations & Collaboration: Work closely with the HR Operations team to implement specific HR processes and transactions, supporting both complex employee and manager-generated requests.
• Cross-Functional Projects: Complete ad-hoc projects, as needed alongside cross-functional HR/Partner teams, occasionally taking the lead on specific projects/programs.
• Relationship Management: Establish, build, and maintain strong professional relationships with various business groups, including employees, people leaders, HR, and Legal.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience working in an employee relations, HR generalist, or HR business partner (HRBP) role.
• Issue Resolution: Proven ability to make recommendations and help resolve complex, unique, and highly sensitive employment-related issues.

Other Qualifications

• Legal & Compliance Expertise: Excellent, demonstrable knowledge of current employment law, relevant employment standards, legislation, and best practices in Employee Relations policies, principles, and procedures.
• Stakeholder Management: Able to advise a wide range of stakeholders on Employee Relations issues, effectively balancing legal compliance with overarching business needs.
• Influencing Skills: Demonstrate effective influencing skills to provide swift resolution to complex and highly sensitive employee matters.
• Collaborative & Independent: Ability to work autonomously while also being an active part of a team environment. Proven success in developing strong professional relationships with peers, managers, executives, and cross-functional teams.
• Judgment & Decision Making: Ability to use sound judgment to problem-solve, make high-stakes decisions, and involve the necessary individuals at the appropriate time.
• Champions Culture: Champions a high-performance culture by holding leaders accountable, reinforcing clear standards, and ensuring talent practices enable sustained business impact.

Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is 129,200 - 145,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. We will provide detailed information about the specific benefits for your region during the recruitment process.

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You’ll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.