Sr. HR Business Partner

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.  

This role can be based in San Francisco or Mountain View.  

We are looking for a Sr. HR Business Partner to partner with 3 teams within our Global Business Organization. Those global teams are Central Operations, Acquisition Development org, and Pricing Operations. The successful candidate will be able to influence effectively across all levels of leadership, demonstrate deep business acumen and the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while balancing challenging the status quo with meeting the business where they are. 

This role will partner closely with business leaders in Go-To- Market Operations and other HR functions, such as talent acquisition, compensation, and learning and development, to deliver integrated HR solutions. 

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with senior leaders to understand business goals and translate them into HR strategies and initiatives. 
• Provide strategic guidance on organizational development, workforce planning, and talent management 
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and workforce analytics to identify and develop key talent. 
• Define and drive the delivery of talent processes & programs globally 
• Actively participate in the functional leadership teams as a partner to the business 
• Understand the business and its challenges to help address the organization and talent needs 
• Develop and cultivate deep relationships with other HRBPs and the Centers of Excellence 
• Assist with the change process as the company meets the challenges of the need to continue to grow and scale 
• Partner with the Centers of Excellence to solve business problems and execute on corporate-wide talent initiatives 
• Deliver short-term solutions while also solving for long-term problems by addressing immediate challenges and underlying causes 
• Improve manager capabilities through coaching and implementation of management development programs and opportunities 
• Use data to measure success: learn, iterate, and improve; analyze trends and develop pro-active actions to further support the business objectives 
• Communicate to a diverse population and understand when to flex based on the audience 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• 7+ years of HR experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Global teams. 
• Experience with quota-carrying sales teams and leaders. 
• Demonstrated experience in the various HR functional areas, especially organization development, change management, and leadership coaching. 
• Proven experience in leading HR initiatives that drive business results. 
• High integrity and will stop at nothing to safeguard compliance standards and company values. 
• Ability to work at all levels of the HR “stack” - strategic, operational, and tactical. 
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills. 
• Strategic mindset with the ability to think creatively and contribute to organizational growth. 
• Having had a COE background, i.e. OD, Analytics, Compensation, HRIT, HR Ops. 
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. 
• Demonstrated credibility and integrity in communications to ensure information flows upward and downward. 
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment and work independently. 
• Critical thinker with success in developing innovative solutions to address business issues. 
• Ability to manage multiple, complex issues and prioritize projects concurrently. 
• Ability to lead through an organizational assessment and diagnosis to turn business strategies into action. 
• Coach and influence to achieve business results. 
• Ability to probe for required understanding of business problems to effectively align solut