Sr. Manager, HR Business Partner

Senior Manager, HR Business Partner - Product & Technology

Expedia Group is seeking a strategic Senior Manager, HR Business Partner to support our Product & Technology division. In this role, you’ll work closely with leaders to advance both business outcomes and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions.  
 

Please note this role is based in Seattle 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 & Leadership Coaching: Implement strategies that enable the organization to navigate and thrive through change. Provide coaching and development support to leaders to strengthen their effectiveness and accelerate growth. 

• Strategic Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to the business by leveraging data-driven insights to identify trends, diagnose root causes of challenges, and co-create effective, sustainable solutions that support business goals. 

• 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. 

• Serve as a key resource for HR policies and procedures, guiding and educating managers and senior leaders to promote understanding and compliance. 

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

• Provide recommendations on HR structures, tools, and resources to support business needs and enhance organizational capability. 

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

• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards in the review and execution of organizational practices. 

Experience and Qualification:  

• 8+ 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