Principal Specialist, HR Change Management

Renesas Electronics Corp.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Renesas Electronics Corp. seeks a Principal Specialist, HR Change Management to lead enterprise HR transformation programs worldwide. You will shape change strategy, drive adoption, align stakeholders, and enable executives with clear communications and readiness activities.

You will oversee portfolio governance, empower managers with practical tools, and measure adoption to sustain new behaviors while leveraging AI-enabled approaches when appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in HR, organizational psychology, business, communications, technology, or related field.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in change management, HR transformation or related disciplines.
• Expertise in change strategy, sponsorship, stakeholder management, and adoption measurement.
• Experience in global, matrixed, multicultural environments with executive influence.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, data privacy, and regional consultation requirements.
• Prosci, CCMP, or equivalent certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise HR change strategy across Renesas-wide priorities.
• Direct change across portfolio including organization redesign and HR process modernization.
• Govern roadmaps, milestones, risks, and accountability from design to stabilization.
• Translate priorities into executive briefings, toolkits, and manager enablement resources.
• Align stakeholders across HR, Legal, Communications, Finance, and regions.
• Create accessible channels for employee information and support throughout the change journey.
• Use analytics to measure readiness and adoption, proving value and sustaining new behaviors.
• Build change capability through coaching, coaching communities, and external best practices.

Skills

Change management

HR transformation

Stakeholder management

Executive communications

Adoption analytics

Digital transformation

AI in HR

Global matrixed environment

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in HR/Org Psychology/Business/Communications/Technology

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

• Full-time
• Employment Type: Regular (PERM)
• Remote Work Available: No

Job Description

The Principal Specialist, HR Change Management is Renesas’ principal advisor for enterprise HR transformation and adoption. The role translates complex people, organization, process, policy, and technology priorities into coordinated change programs spanning governance, stakeholder alignment, communications, readiness, enablement, and adoption. Working globally across functions and regions, the role resolves ambiguous change challenges and influences senior stakeholders through expertise rather than direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise change strategy: Define and lead integrated strategies for Renesas-wide HR and organization priorities, covering the case for change, sponsorship, stakeholder analysis, readiness, communications, learning, resistance, reinforcement, and benefits realization.
• Immediate transformation portfolio: Lead change across evolving priorities such as organization simplification, job re-leveling and title cleanup, technical ladder program, rewards and benefits harmonization, HR process standardization, and digital, automation, or AI-enabled ways of working.
• Portfolio governance and delivery: Establish integrated roadmaps, milestones, interdependencies, decision forums, ownership, resource needs, risk escalation, and accountability from design through stabilization.
• Communications and enablement: Translate complex priorities into executive briefings, leader narratives, manager toolkits, presentations, FAQs, digital content, cascade plans, training, and practical support for employee conversations.
• Stakeholder and sponsor alignment: Build coalitions across HR, Legal, Communications, Finance, business functions, and regions; align outcomes, sequencing, and employee impacts while surfacing competing needs early.
• Employee experience and digital engagement: Create accessible channels and self-service resources that provide employees and managers with reliable information, tools, updates, and support throughout the change journey.
• Insights and adoption: Use readiness, adoption, sentiment, service, process, and channel data to remove barriers, refine interventions, demonstrate value, and sustain new behaviors.
• Capability and innovation: Build change capability through coaching, reusable methods, communities of practice, and mentoring, while applying external practices in workforce transformation, digital enablement, and responsible AI.

Scope and Accountability:

• Serves as Renesas’ principal advisor and thought leader for complex, enterprise-scale HR change.
• Partners with senior business and HR leaders to establish strategy, principles, and priorities across functions and geographies.
• Resolves significant and unique issues requiring conceptual thinking, independent judgment, and a long-term view.
• Develops enterprise methods and standards where established approaches are insufficient.
• Owns outcomes affecting the HR function and multiple business areas through expertise, influence, and cross-functional leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent advanced knowledge in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business, Communications, Technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Typically 12+ years of progressive experience in change management, HR transformation, organization effectiveness, HR technology, or a related discipline, including complex global initiatives.
• Expertise in change strategy, organization transformation, sponsor and stakeholder management, executive communications, enablement, and adoption measurement.
• Experience across people and organization change, including organization redesign, job architecture, career frameworks, rewards or benefits harmonization, HR process transformation, and digital or AI-enabled adoption.
• Proven ability to advise executives and influence outcomes in a global, matrixed, multicultural environment.
• Strong analytical judgment and working knowledge of responsible AI, data privacy, employee relations, and regional consultation requirements.
• Change management certification such as Prosci, CCMP, or equivalent preferred.

Enterprise Change Strategy | Portfolio Delivery | Organization and Workforce Transformation | Job Architecture and Career Programs | Rewards and Benefits Change | HR Process and Digital Transformation | Communications and Manager Enablement | Governance and Risk | Adoption Analytics | Global Collaboration

Additional Information

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose, To Make Our Lives Easier. With a global team of over 21,000 engineers and problem solvers in more than 30 countries, we offer the opportunity to work on world‑leading technology for Automotive, Industrial, Infrastructure, and IoT, shaping a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter future.

At Renesas, TAGIE is our culture, grounded in being Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. It shapes how we work, grow and deliver on our purpose together. This collaborative spirit and mindset drive our semiconductor technology to transform industries and impact millions of lives.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

Are you ready to join our team and shape the future with us?

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement .

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.