Director, Human Resources Business Partner - Engineering and Product

We are looking for a strategic HRBP to partner with executives in our Product Organization, reporting to the Vice President, HRBP for Product. This role is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA. We come together three days a week to collaborate and connect.

In this role, the HRBP will serve in a strategic advisory role. You will be an integrated thought partner, directly supporting defined product lines and their leaders. This is a critical role, bridging execution to enterprise strategy.

In this role, you will be a trusted advisor, talent strategist, and change agent supporting business growth, transformation, and a high-performance culture. Strong business acumen and understanding of Product and Engineering organizations. Able to partner across the COE’s is a critical component to success in this role.

• Partner with business leaders (typically VP’s/Sr. Directors) to understand business priorities and translate them into people strategies.
• Influence decision-making through data, insights and organizational best practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on leadership effectiveness, team development and change management.
• Partner across workforce planning and organizational design discussions to ensure the right structure, capabilities and talent for the future.
• Leverage people analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities across the organization.
• Connect global design process and go-to-market partnerships to practical, scalable people process.
• Monitor organizational health metrics and implement action plans in partnership with leaders.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality HR delivery across the organization.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or Human Resources or equivalent with Master's degree or relevant certification preferred
• Extensive progressive HR experience, including significant time in a business partnering role supporting senior leaders (Sr. Directors and VP’s).
• Strategic Partnering Skills: Proven ability to align people strategies with business objectives, influencing leaders and driving outcomes.
• Global Mindset: Experience supporting international client groups – ability to adapt strategies across geographies.
• Executive Presence and Communication: Exceptional influencing, facilitation and presentation skills; able to engage with senior executives confidently.
• Product Development: Is knowledgeable about the product development and operations of the organization including roadmap, go-to-market and enterprise delivery mechanisms.
• Proactive vs. Reactive: Looks around corners to proactively identify challenges on a global scale, recommends solutions and drives solution to completion; translating work to direct business results.
• Prioritization and Execution: Ability to assess competing business needs, identify what matters most, and focus resources on the highest impact initiatives. Skilled at balancing strategic priorities with operational demand.
• Team Player: Always willing to roll up their sleeves, does not say “that’s not my job” and collaborates to get results.

WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/28/26 , although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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• Bachelor's Degree in Business or Human Resources or equivalent with Master's degree or relevant certification preferred
• Extensive progressive HR experience, including significant time in a business partnering role supporting senior leaders (Sr. Directors and VP’s).
• Strategic Partnering Skills: Proven ability to align people strategies with business objectives, influencing leaders and driving outcomes.
• Global Mindset: Experience supporting international client groups – ability to adapt strategies across geographies.
• Executive Presence and Communication: Exceptional influencing, facilitation and presentation skills; able to engage with senior executives confidently.
• Product Development: Is knowledgeable about the product development and operations of the organization including roadmap, go-to-market and enterprise delivery mechanisms.
• Proactive vs. Reactive: Looks around corners to proactively identify challenges on a global scale, recommends solutions and drives solution to completion; translating work to direct business results.
• Prioritization and Execution: Ability to assess competing business needs, identify what matters most, and focus resources on the highest impact initiatives. Skilled at balancing strategic priorities with operational demand.
• Team Player: Always willing to roll up their sleeves, does not say “that’s not my job” and collaborates to get results. Come join the HRBP team at WD!

We are looking for a strategic HRBP to partner with executives in our Product Organization, reporting to the Vice President, HRBP for Product. This role is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA. We come together three days a week to collaborate and connect.

In this role, the HRBP will serve in a strategic advisory role. You will be an integrated thought partner, directly supporting defined product lines and their leaders. This is a critical role, bridging execution to enterprise strategy.

In this role, you will be a trusted advisor, talent strategist, and change agent supporting business growth, transformation, and a high-performance culture. Strong business acumen and understanding of Product and Engineering organizations. Able to partner across the COE’s is a critical component to success in this role.

• Partner with business leaders (typically VP’s/Sr. Directors) to understand business priorities and translate them into people strategies.
• Influence decision-making through data, insights and organizational best practices.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on leadership effectiveness, team development and change management.
• Partner across workforce planning and organizational design discussions to ensure the right structure, capabilities and talent for the future.
• Leverage people analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities across the organization.
• Connect global design process and go-to-market partnerships to practical, scalable people process.
• Monitor organizational health metrics and implement action plans in partnership with leaders.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality HR delivery across the organization.