Senior Staff Px Business Partner - Software, Products & Services (R4850)

Job Description:

What you'll do:

Strategic Engineering Partnership 

Partner with senior Engineering and Product leaders to translate business and technical priorities into people and organizational strategies that enable innovation, execution, and scale.

Advise on talent and workforce investments, including build, buy, and partner decisions, required to deliver against product and business priorities. 

Leadership Advisory & Organizational Effectiveness 

Serve as a trusted advisor and coach to senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team performance, and complex people decisions.

Shape organizational design, roles, and operating models to strengthen accountability, collaboration, speed, and scalability.

Develop leadership and senior technical talent to strengthen organizational capability and succession. 

Workforce & Talent Strategy 

Partner on workforce and talent planning, identifying critical capability, capacity, succession, and retention risks and recommending actions aligned to business priorities.

Shape workforce composition, location strategy, and talent approaches to build and retain critical capabilities. 

Data & Organizational Insights 

Use people and business data to assess organizational health, talent trends, leadership effectiveness, and workforce risks.

Translate insights into clear recommendations that influence leadership decisions and improve organizational performance. 

Change, Transformation & M&A 

Partner with key stakeholders on the people strategy for complex transformations, restructures, M&A, and organizational integrations.

Collaborate on M&A due diligence and integration planning, including talent assessment, organizational design, retention, leadership alignment, and cultural integration.

Advise leaders through change to maintain business continuity, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement. 

Cross-Functional Leadership 

Partner across PX, Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, Product, and other functions to deliver integrated solutions to complex business and talent challenges.

Lead and contribute to cross-functional initiatives that strengthen scalable people practices and organizational effectiveness.

What it takes to succeed:

Strategic, business-first mindset. You understand how Engineering and Product organizations create value and connect people decisions to business and customer outcomes. 
Trusted and influential partner. You bring strong judgment, credibility, and the ability to coach and challenge senior leaders. 
Strong organizational effectiveness expertise. You bring depth in organizational design, workforce and talent planning, succession, leadership effectiveness, and change. 
M&A and integration experience. You understand the people implications of transactions and can effectively navigate talent, organizational, cultural, and change considerations. 
Data-driven problem solver. You use analytics and insight to identify patterns, simplify complexity, and influence decisions. 
Operationally strong and adaptable. You translate strategy into action and thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving priorities. 
Systems thinker and collaborator. You connect business needs with the right partners and solutions while balancing immediate priorities with long-term organizational capability.

Required qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field. 
12+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience, including experience supporting Engineering, Product, AI/ML, Platform, or other highly technical organizations. 
Demonstrated success partnering with VP and Director-level leaders to develop and execute people strategies aligned with business priorities. 
Deep experience in organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, change management, and leadership coaching within scaling technology organizations. 
Experience supporting the people aspects of M&A, including due diligence, integration planning, talent assessment, retention, organizational alignment, and cultural integration. 
Experience advising senior leaders through periods of rapid growth, organizational transformation, restructuring, or integration. 
Experience operating within a global People organization and leveraging Centers of Excellence (COEs) and Shared Services to deliver scalable solutions. 
Strong understanding of technical talent markets, job architecture, leveling frameworks, and compensation principles. 
Demonstrated ability to leverage workforce analytics and people data to diagnose challenges and influence decisions. 
Exceptional consulting, coaching, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and build alignment across senior leaders. 

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting high-growth, complex, or rapidly scaling technology-based organizations. 
Experience partnering with Software, Product, AI/ML, Platform, or Services organizations. 
M&A experience, including pre-close diligence and post-close integration. 
Experience supporting global or geographically distributed teams and navigating complex matrixed organizations. 
Demonstrated expertise in organizational effectiveness, including operating model design, team effectiveness, and organizational diagnostics. 
Experience using people analytics, workforce insights, and business metrics to inform talent and organizational decisions. 
Familiarity with emerging technologies, including AI, and their implications for workforce strategy, skills, and organizational design. 
Experience working in fast-paced environments requiring strong judgment, adaptability, and comfort navigating ambiguity.