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As an HR Business Partner supporting the Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), you will partner closely with leaders to shape the people and organizational strategies behind a growing, innovation-driven business. You will influence decisions around organizational design, workforce planning, talent development, succession, and retention, bringing forward insights that help leaders strengthen their teams and plan for future capability needs. This is an opportunity to operate as a trusted advisor, anticipate challenges, and help leaders make thoughtful talent decisions aligned with both immediate priorities and long-term growth.

Our Team

You will join the HR team supporting Molex's Optical Solutions Business Unit (OSBU), a fast-growing organization focused on enabling next-generation optical connectivity solutions. This role will partner closely with engineering, product management, and technical marketing leaders primarily based in Fremont, CA, while collaborating with HR partners across North America. As a trusted business partner and the primary HR resource for segment leadership, you will play a key role in building talent pipelines, developing future leaders, and helping the organization scale for continued growth. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment where initiative, curiosity, and innovative ideas are encouraged and valued.

What You Will Do

Partner closely with leadership to understand business priorities, technology roadmaps, and talent needs, translating them into effective people and organizational strategies.
Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, team effectiveness, and building capabilities to support growth and innovation.
Coach leaders on establishing clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations (RREs), providing effective feedback, managing performance, and developing capability within their teams.
Drive talent management, succession planning, and individual development discussions to strengthen leadership pipelines and maintain continuity of critical skills.
Leverage HR data and organizational insights to proactively identify talent risks, workforce trends, and opportunities that inform business and people decisions.
Champion Principle Based Management (PBM), partnering with leaders and employees to strengthen understanding and application of PBM within the organization.
Support an effective new-hire experience, including onboarding, early-career development, and talent programs.
Partner with leaders on key HR processes, including compensation and workforce planning, talent reviews, and 360 feedback.
Provide guidance on employee relations matters, including performance management, investigations, and conflict resolution, exercising sound judgment and discretion.
Support consistent application of HR policies and compliance with applicable California and federal employment requirements.
Contribute to broader HR initiatives and special projects based on evolving business and organizational needs.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Progressive HRBP experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Manger roles.
Strong working knowledge of California employment law and employee relations best practices.
Demonstrate ability to influence and partner with leaders
Experience in analyzing, interpreting, and presenting data, advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
Ability to travel up to 10% of the time domestically

What Will Put You Ahead

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field
Experience supporting optics, photonics, semiconductor, hardware, or advanced manufacturing organizations.
Past experience working in technical or engineering -driven organizations
Advanced skills in data analytics, proven track record to link HR strategy with HR data analytics

For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000 - $220,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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