Employee Success Business Partner Manager

Salesforce•Chicago, IL

About The Position

Salesforce is seeking an Employee Success Business Partner Manager to join their Employee Success for Employee Success (ES4ES / HR4HR) client group. This role partners directly with HR and People leaders who shape the future of Salesforce's workforce. The position operates as a trusted advisor to director and senior-manager level leaders across the Employee Success organization, including leaders in ESBP, Workforce Transformation, Agentic Talent Experience, and HR COEs. The work has meaningful team- and org-level impact, aligning talent initiatives with fiscal year goals and supporting hiring strategies.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience as an HR/ES Business Partner or in a similar talent advisory role, with a track record of supporting director/senior-manager level clients.
A strong curiosity for how business operates, including growth trajectories, product lifecycles, and the impact of AI on the modern workforce.
Experience supporting teams through organizational change, using established change management frameworks to improve culture and effectiveness.
Ability to analyze people data and connect it to business outcomes.
A natural ability to build high-trust, collaborative relationships across diverse teams and formal/informal networks.
Experience will be evaluated based on alignment to the Values & Behaviors for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer work, etc.).

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with international data privacy and residency frameworks (e.g., sovereign cloud policies) and their impact on talent mobility.
Exposure to coaching practices, high-potential assessment tools, or leadership pipeline programs.

Responsibilities

Serve as a proactive consultant to people leaders to support organizational strategy, business transformation, engagement and AI/Agent integration at the team and function level.
Align talent initiatives with fiscal year goals and support hiring strategies for your client group.
Serve as a trusted advisor to your assigned leaders, using strong consultative skills to navigate a complex organizational ecosystem.
Provide values-aligned coaching — anchored in Trust, Customer Success, Innovation, and Equality — to support leaders through organizational change and engagement challenges.
Bridge differing perspectives among practitioners, building the consensus needed to improve retention and drive strong people outcomes.
Execute critical talent cycles including succession planning, merit and compensation reviews, and workforce planning for your client group.
Help test and refine internal initiatives before they are scaled to the broader organization.
Mobilize stakeholders across Legal, Finance, and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) as needed.
Help translate global corporate strategy into local, actionable guidance for your client teams.
Use data-driven insights to monitor and advise on team health.
Connect engagement data (from GIS surveys) to relevant business metrics like retention risk and team effectiveness.