Sr. HR Business Partner

Job Summary

As Senior HR Business Partner for NetApp’s Cloud Storage and Services (CSS) Organization, you will shape the people and organizational strategies that accelerate business outcomes. As a trusted advisor to SVP and VP business leaders, you will strengthen leadership effectiveness and enable organizational transformation.

Beyond Cloud Storage, you will help shape and scale NetApp’s workforce transformation in an AI-enabled environment, partnering across HR and the business on enterprise-wide approaches to work design, workforce planning, skills strategy, and talent mobility. Within Cloud Storage, you will partner directly with the SVP and GM, VP business leaders, and their leadership teams to build the leadership, talent, capabilities, structure, and culture needed to execute today’s strategy and prepare for the future. The organization enables customers to build modern, multi-cloud, data-driven intelligent applications through NetApp’s product portfolio.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a strategic advisor to S/VP business leaders by translating Cloud Storage business priorities into people strategies that improve organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent strategy, transformation, and execution.
• Strengthen senior leadership team effectiveness by improving alignment, decision making, accountability, role clarity, and team dynamics.
• Lead organizational transformation to improve agility, effectiveness, and business performance through operating model shifts, organizational redesign, capability modernization, workforce evolution, and change strategies.
• Partner with Cloud Storage leaders to redesign work across people, AI, and automation, translating business strategy into future-ready operating models, workforce plans, and talent strategies that improve organizational agility, capacity, and execution.
• Partner with an enterprise HR team to establish a repeatable framework for designing human-AI workflows. Use the framework to help the business define future talent strategies, modernize organization design, and build high-performing teams for an AI-enabled workforce.
• Coach senior leaders to maximize their impact, alignment, and decision effectiveness, strengthening leadership performance, organizational health, and the quality of critical talent decisions.
• Design talent and succession strategies that strengthen leadership depth, accelerate development of critical capabilities, and build the skills required to support long-term business strategy and organizational success.
• Shape and steward a high-performance culture by holding leaders accountable for behaviors, talent decisions, and organizational practices that align with company values and performance expectations.
• Synthesize people data, business performance indicators, workforce trends, and external market intelligence into actionable insights that influence executive decisions, mitigate risk, and drive sustainable business outcomes.
• Act as the integrator across the business, HR COEs, and key stakeholder groups, connecting business priorities with the right expertise and ensuring coordinated, high-impact solutions.
• Influence outcomes beyond the immediate client organization through enterprise thinking, cross-functional partnership, and contribution to broader HR and strategic workforce priorities.

Education and Experience

• 12+ years of progressive HR Business Partner
• Experience influencing and partnering directly with VP and SVP-level leaders.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale business and culture transformation, organizational redesign, or operating model change initiatives.
• Proven experience influencing executive decisions in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Strong track record of translating business strategy into measurable people outcomes.
• Experience supporting global, matrixed organizations across multiple geographies and cultures.