Senior Staff, HR Business Partner - BioInsight (San Diego / Hybrid)

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to understand business strategy, organizational priorities and key capabilities, translating them into actionable organization, workforce and talent strategies.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to leadership teams, bringing a strong point of view on organizational effectiveness, talent, leadership, culture and the workforce implications of business decisions.
• Provide consultation on organization design, organizational effectiveness, team effectiveness and change management, including organization structures, roles and responsibilities, spans and layers, operating models and ways of working.
• Support organizations as they evolve and scale, identifying the organizational capabilities, skills and workforce requirements needed to deliver current and future business priorities.
• Build strong leadership teams and talent pipelines through succession planning, talent reviews, development planning, leadership coaching and thoughtful internal and external talent decisions; lead core HR processes including performance management and compensation planning.
• Use workforce data, business metrics and qualitative insights to diagnose organizational challenges, identify trends and inform talent and workforce decisions.
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to enhance the quality, speed and strategic impact of HRBP work, including workforce analysis, scenario modeling, talent insights and decision support.
• Identify opportunities to automate and redesign HR workflows using AI-enabled tools and agents, while applying sound judgment, governance and data stewardship.
• Help leaders understand the workforce implications of AI and other emerging technologies, including how work, workflows, roles, skills and organizational capabilities may need to evolve, and translate those implications into practical workforce and talent actions.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders in complex, highly skilled organizations; experience supporting scientific, technical, software, data/AI, bioinformatics, clinical or life sciences organizations is preferred.
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into practical organization, workforce and talent solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in organization design and effectiveness, talent management, succession planning, leadership development and organizational change.
• Strong consulting, influencing and communication skills, including the ability to constructively challenge senior leaders and bring an independent point of view.
• Demonstrated ability to use workforce data, analytics and business information to generate insights and influence decisions.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI tools and capabilities in an HR/HRBP environment to improve analysis, decision support, productivity or HR processes; experience experimenting with automation, AI-enabled workflows or agents is strongly valued.

Other Competencies & Requirements

• Business Acumen & Intellectual Curiosity - quickly learns the business, its strategy, operating model and key drivers of performance.
• Strategic & Systems Thinking - connects business, organization, talent, technology and workforce considerations and anticipates broader implications.
• Consultative Leadership & Influence - builds trusted relationships while maintaining the confidence and independence to challenge assumptions and offer a strong point of view.
• Organizational Problem Solving - breaks down ambiguous and complex organizational challenges and develops pragmatic, scalable solutions.
• Data & AI Fluency - effectively combines workforce data, business insights and AI-enabled capabilities to improve analysis, decision-making and HR effectiveness; demonstrates curiosity and willingness to experiment with new technologies and ways of working.
• Change Agility & Learning Orientation - operates effectively through ambiguity and change, continuously learns and helps leaders and organizations adapt to evolving business and technology environments.
• Execution & Collaboration - works independently, prioritizes effectively and drives outcomes while collaborating seamlessly across HR disciplines and the broader business.
• Flexible to work across multiple time zones as business demands.
• Ability to travel as required. Anticipated travel is <10% of the time.