Sr. HR Business Partner

NetApp•San Jose, CA

About The Position

As Senior HR Business Partner for NetApp’s Cloud Storage and Services (CSS) Organization, this role shapes people and organizational strategies to accelerate business outcomes. The position serves as a trusted advisor to SVP and VP business leaders, strengthening leadership effectiveness and enabling organizational transformation. It also contributes to NetApp’s broader workforce transformation in an AI-enabled environment by partnering across HR and the business on work design, workforce planning, skills strategy, and talent mobility. Within Cloud Storage, the role partners directly with the SVP and GM, VP business leaders, and their leadership teams to build the leadership, talent, capabilities, structure, and culture needed to deliver the current strategy and prepare for the future. The organization enables customers to build modern, multi-cloud, data-driven intelligent applications through NetApp’s product portfolio.

Requirements

12+ years of progressive HR Business Partner experience.
Experience influencing and partnering directly with VP- and SVP-level leaders.
Demonstrated success leading large-scale business and culture transformation, organizational redesign, or operating model change initiatives.
Proven experience influencing executive decisions in complex and fast-paced environments.
Strong track record of translating business strategy into measurable people outcomes.
Experience supporting global, matrixed organizations across multiple geographies and cultures.

Responsibilities

Translate Cloud Storage business priorities into people strategies that improve organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent strategy, transformation, and execution.
Improve senior leadership team alignment, decision making, accountability, role clarity, and team dynamics.
Lead organizational transformation through operating model shifts, organizational redesign, capability modernization, workforce evolution, and change strategies.
Partner with Cloud Storage leaders to redesign work across people, AI, and automation, developing future-ready operating models, workforce plans, and talent strategies.
Partner with an enterprise HR team to establish a repeatable framework for designing human-AI workflows and apply it to future talent strategies, organization design, and team effectiveness.
Coach senior leaders to strengthen their impact, alignment, decision effectiveness, leadership performance, organizational health, and critical talent decisions.
Design talent and succession strategies that strengthen leadership depth, develop critical capabilities, and build skills for long-term business strategy and organizational success.
Promote a high-performance culture by holding leaders accountable for behaviors, talent decisions, and organizational practices aligned with company values and performance expectations.
Synthesize people data, business performance indicators, workforce trends, and external market intelligence into actionable insights that influence executive decisions, mitigate risk, and drive sustainable business outcomes.
Integrate across the business, HR COEs, and key stakeholder groups, connecting business priorities with expertise and coordinating high-impact solutions.
Influence outcomes beyond the immediate client organization through enterprise thinking, cross-functional partnership, and contribution to broader HR and strategic workforce priorities.