Director, HR Business Partner

Director, HR Business Partner 

Expedia Group is seeking a strategic Director, HR Business Partner to work with our Hotels.com, Integrated Marketing & Creative, and Loyalty teams. This alignment is intentional because these teams work closely together to deliver business outcomes. In this role, you’ll work closely with executives to advance both business objectives and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions.
 
Please note this role is based in Seattle or Austin and follows our hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three in-office days per week.  

What you'll do: 

• Talent Strategy: Collaborate with global People team partners and business leaders to ensure the success of client groups through strategic talent initiatives. Key areas include identifying high-potential talent, driving succession planning, and building future-focused organizational capabilities. 

• Organizational Effectiveness: Guide organizational design and change management strategies and implement processes, policies, and guidelines for conducting organizational reviews and improving alignment.

• Strategic Business Partnership: Partner closely with the executive leaders to define the overall talent and business strategy, anticipating long-term people needs and translating business plans into HR program objectives.

• Lead organizational structure analysis and design, identifying more effective structures and governance models to align with strategic goals. 

• Define and implement organizational principles and health objectives, offering strategic insights to optimize performance. 

• Design tools (e.g., surveys) to measure organizational effectiveness and assess issues related to structure, talent, and performance. 

• Develop and implement programs to improve employee engagement, management capabilities, and leadership development. 

• Leverage a deep understanding of business operations and challenges to propose tailored solutions that support organizational objectives. 

• Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to co-create practical and impactful solutions. 

• Apply systems thinking to enhance organizational efficiency, recommending improvements across policies, processes, and structures. 

• Evaluate the long-term financial and operational impact of proposed solutions to support sustainable business outcomes. 

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business leaders to design and implement HR programs, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness. 

• Apply strong data analysis skills and business acumen to inform decisions related to leadership, structure, and talent development. 

• Works closely with business leaders to define the human resource structure, identifying workforce planning needs, leadership and management gaps, skillsets for the future and implement best-practice HR solutions to facilitate drive optimal performance.

Experience and Qualification:  

• 10+ years’ relevant experience 

• Strategic people business partner, experienced in designing end-to-end talent agenda, organizational development, delivery of global transformation programs 

• Analytical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills, with the drive to cut. through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives 

• Comfortable using advanced executive coaching techniques to make recommendations across opposing and equally critical business needs 

• Natural bar-raiser: curious and passionate about the business context and leadership growth, builds strong relationships by being an inspiring and approachable leader