Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Position: Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Business Unit: Employee Experience

Location: Noida

Opportunity

Adobe is looking for a Senior Director, HR Business Partner to lead the HR Business partnering team across BUs in India while leading the people and organization agenda globally for the Adobe Document Cloud business.

Based in Noida, this leader will work directly with senior Product, Engineering and Research executives as they scale the business and advance AI-led innovation.This is a strategic leadership role at the intersection of technology, product, AI, talent and organizational scale.

You will lead a group of senior HR professionals, work across a complex global matrix and help leaders rethink how work, teams and capabilities should evolve in an AI-enabled world. You will be a member of the India Employee Experience leadership team and the global business-unit Employee Experience leadership team, and will represent India Employee Experience in global business-partner forums when required.

What you’ll do

Product, Engineering and AI Partnership

• Act as a strategic thought partner to senior Product, Engineering and Research leaders, connecting people strategy to business, product, technology and AI priorities.

• Understand product roadmaps, engineering priorities, technology investments and AI strategieswell enough to anticipate organizational and talent implications.

• Translate business and technology priorities into workforce, talent, leadership and organizationalstrategies.

• Bring an external perspective on how leading technology organizations are evolving their operating models in response to AI and participate in global Adobe AI-native work streams.

AI-Enabled Organization and Workforce Design

• Lead organizational design across team topology, spans and layers, leadership structures,decision rights and organizational interfaces.

• Use workforce data, organizational analytics and scenario modeling to identify organizational friction, duplicated capability, decision bottlenecks and skill gaps.

• Help leaders assess how AI changes workflows, roles, skills, team composition and the balance between automated, augmented and human-led work.

• Partner with People Analytics, Finance, Talent Acquisition and business leaders on workforceinvestment, capability planning and organizational health.

• Ensure human judgment, fairness, transparency and appropriate governance remain central toAI-enabled organizational and talent decisions.

Talent and Leadership

• Build forward-looking strategies to attract, retain and develop exceptional engineering, product,AI, data and research talent.

• Partner with leaders on pivotal roles, scarce skills, succession risks, capability gaps and differentiated career paths for technical and management talent.

• Coach executives through transformation, ambiguity, rapid technological change and evolving team structures.

• Strengthen leadership expectations around technical excellence, product thinking, AI fluency, execution, accountability and talent development.

Team and Culture Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of senior HR business partners and build strong relationships across the functional and business value chain.

• Use engagement, talent, attrition, productivity, skills and organizational data to understand organizational health and guide intervention.

• Help create a culture of customer focus, technical excellence, innovation, responsible AI adoption, execution discipline and continuous learning.

What you need to succeed

• 18+ years of progressive HR or HR business partnering leadership experience, with substantial experience supporting Product, Engineering, Technology, R&D, AI or Research organizations.

• At least two years operating at Senior Director level or in a role of comparable enterprise scope, with the potential to grow into broader leadership over time.

• Deep understanding of modern technology organizations, including software engineering, product management, data and AI, platform or research environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex organizational design and transformation in a global,technology-driven environment.

• A strong track record in workforce planning, operating-model transformation, talent strategy, leadership development, succession planning and organizational effectiveness.

• Experience using data, analytics, workforce modeling or AI-enabled tools to inform organizational decisions.

• The credibility and judgment to influence highly technical executives, challenge conventional thinking and operate effectively across a complex global matrix.

• Strong business and technology acumen, with comfort discussing product roadmaps, engineering organizations, AI adoption, technical talent and delivery models.

• Exceptional executive presence, communication, coaching and influencing skills.

• Proven ability to build and lead high-performing HR business partner teams.

About Adobe

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

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