People Consultant

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

NetApp is reimagining how HR delivers impact at scale. As a People Consultant, you will empower managers with expert coaching, guide performance conversations, and resolve sensitive employee matters across the global organization.

You'll collaborate with HR partners to design scalable solutions, strengthen employee experience, and support a high‑achievement culture while upholding legal and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in employee relations, HR generalist, or HRBP roles.
• Ability to make recommendations and resolve complex, sensitive employment-related issues.
• Knowledge of employment law, compliance, and HR policies.

Responsibilities

• Coaching managers and employees on performance, conflict, and policy interpretation.
• Triage and resolve employee relations issues, coordinating with Legal as needed.
• Support managers with performance improvement plans and compliant HR processes.
• Collaborate with HR Operations to implement processes and handle complex requests.
• Lead ad-hoc HR/partner projects and provide cross-functional support.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with employees, leaders, HR, and Legal.

Skills

Employee relations

Coaching

Stakeholder management

Policy interpretation

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Own Every Moment at NetApp

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real‑world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

About the Role

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.

About The People Consultant 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.

Job Requirements

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.

Education

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.

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.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

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.