# Principal People Business Partner

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5041042007
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## Description

We are seeking a visionary and results-driven Director, People Business Partner (or Senior Director, People Strategy) to join our executive leadership team. This pivotal role is not just about HR; it's about architecting and executing a people strategy that directly fuels our aggressive growth agenda, shapes our culture, and optimizes organizational performance.

As a Principal People Business Partner, you will serve as a critical strategic partner, owning the comprehensive people agenda for your assigned executive client group. You will lead a high-performing team of People Business Partners, integrating deep business acumen with sophisticated people analytics to drive transformational change and ensure we attract, develop, and retain world-class talent.

This is a role for a proven leader who thrives in complexity, has zero ego, anticipates future organizational needs, and translates strategic business objectives into proactive, impactful people initiatives. We are redefining the impact that a People Business Partner team can drive.

### Responsibilities

#### Executive People Strategy & Leadership

- Architect and own the end-to-end People Strategy for your executive client group, ensuring direct alignment with their goals, strategic imperatives, and long-range business plans.

- Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic thought partner to your executive team, challenging perspectives and providing proactive insights on organizational effectiveness, talent implications of strategic decisions, and future workforce needs.

- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of high-performing People Business Partners, fostering a culture of strategic partnership and analytical rigor, ensuring consistent delivery of high-impact people solutions.

- Drive organizational design and transformation initiatives, directly impacting operational efficiency, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic agility.

#### Organizational Impact & Transformation

- Design, implement, and lead large-scale change management initiatives that support critical business transformations, acquisition integrations, or significant strategic pivots, ensuring successful adoption and sustained impact.

- Design and deploy complex workforce planning models that anticipate future talent needs, skill gaps, and organizational structures required for sustained hyper-growth, including leadership bench growth.

- Champion and embed a high-performance culture, designing and implementing leadership development programs, executive coaching frameworks, and performance management philosophies that cultivate a strong leadership pipeline and enhance organizational capability.

#### Strategic Talent Leadership & Analytics

- Leverage advanced people analytics and business intelligence to identify systemic organizational challenges, predict future talent trends, and drive data-driven decision-making at the executive level.

- Proactively forecast and strategically identify critical future talent needs, skill requirements, and potential gaps by deeply integrating with business strategy, product roadmaps, and long-range planning, establishing robust talent pipelines.

- Design, implement, and continuously evolve executive and critical talent development strategies, including bench planning, high-potential programs, and bespoke leadership development initiatives to build organizational capability and ensure a ready supply of future leaders.

### Critical Qualifications

- 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, with deep experience directly partnering with executives and driving tangible people strategies.

- Demonstrated success in architecting, implementing, and scaling people strategies that directly contributed to significant business growth, transformation, and financial impact in a fast-paced, high-growth, and complex environment.

- Proven experience building, leading, developing, and inspiring high-performing People Business Partner teams.

- Exceptional executive presence, influencing skills, and the ability to navigate complex organizational dynamics with leaders.

- Deep expertise in organizational development, change leadership, strategic workforce planning, executive talent management, and advanced people analytics.

- Strong financial acumen and a keen understanding of the commercial and P&L implications of people decisions, with the ability to articulate value propositions in business terms.

- Strategic systems thinker with the ability to operate at a 50,000-foot level while understanding the critical tactical levers necessary for flawless execution.

- Outstanding communication and conflict resolution skills.

- U.S. Person status is required due to access to export-controlled data.

## Skills

### Required
- People strategy
- Organizational design
- Change management
- Workforce planning
- Talent development
- Executive presence
- Influencing skills
- Complex organizational dynamics
- Organizational development
- Change leadership
- Strategic workforce planning
- Executive talent management
- Advanced people analytics