People Business Partner Director

📋 Description

• • As the People Business Partner Director for Product & Technology at Pluralsight, Inc., you will be instrumental in shaping and executing the people strategy that underpins innovation, engineering excellence, and global growth within these critical business units.
• • This pivotal role sits at the nexus of business objectives and human capital strategy, requiring you to translate the priorities of the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) into actionable, forward-looking workforce, leadership, and culture initiatives designed to achieve measurable business outcomes.
• • You will serve as a senior advisor, influencing executive decision-making, architecting organizational effectiveness, and cultivating high-performing technical leadership teams.
• • Operating as a highly visible individual contributor, you will report to the Sr. Director, People Business Partners, and your impact will extend across global Product & Technology organizations, with significant touchpoints into other business units.
• • Your core responsibilities will encompass strategic partnership and executive advisory, where you will act as a trusted confidant to the CPO, CTO, and their leadership teams, providing expert counsel on organizational design, operating models, talent investments, and leadership effectiveness.
• • You will be tasked with translating the overarching business strategy into comprehensive, multi-year people business plans that directly support product innovation, technical scalability, and the company's competitive differentiation in the market.
• • A key aspect of this role involves providing strategic guidance on executive-level people matters, including robust succession planning, enhancing leadership team effectiveness, and proactively identifying and mitigating organizational risks.
• • In terms of organizational design and workforce strategy, you will lead end-to-end initiatives across engineering, product management, design, and other technical functions, ensuring clarity, accountability, and velocity in their operations.
• • You will drive global workforce planning, meticulously aligning it with product roadmaps, innovation cycles, and the company's long-term growth trajectory.
• • A proactive approach to identifying capability gaps and designing targeted talent strategies to build critical technical skill depth will be essential for success.
• • For talent and leadership development, you will spearhead enterprise-level talent reviews and succession planning processes specifically for Product & Technology, ensuring these efforts are integrated within the broader Pluralsight organizational ecosystem.
• • You will focus on elevating leadership capability through personalized coaching, the development of targeted learning strategies, and the implementation of high-impact leadership programming.
• • Partnering closely with leaders, you will foster inclusive, high-performing teams that are adept at attracting and retaining top-tier technical talent.
• • Your role will also involve significant change leadership and business transformation, where you will guide people strategies through complex organizational changes, including mergers, acquisitions, integrations, restructures, and broader business transformations.
• • You will act as a change architect, ensuring clarity, effective communication, and successful adoption of changes across distributed and global teams.
• • Identifying organizational health risks and proactively implementing solutions to sustain employee engagement and performance will be a critical function.
• • Leveraging data-driven decision-making is paramount; you will utilize workforce analytics, engagement data, retention trends, and performance insights to inform executive decisions.
• • You will employ data to diagnose root causes of challenges, identify systemic issues, and implement scalable, people-centric solutions that drive positive change.
• • Cross-functional collaboration is key, requiring you to work closely with People Centers of Excellence (including Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Org Effectiveness & Engagement, People Analytics, People Compliance, and Employee Relations) to ensure that programs are strategically aligned with business objectives.
• • You will also influence enterprise-wide People initiatives, ensuring they adequately address the unique needs of technical and innovation-driven teams.
• • Within your first 12 months, you will establish strong, trusted executive partnerships with the CPO and CTO, drive the development and execution of People business plans, and recommend necessary talent strategies while ensuring partnership on financial management.
• • You will also focus on elevating succession bench strength across Product & Engineering leadership, improving engagement and retention within critical technical talent segments, and leading at least one high-impact organizational transformation initiative.