Senior Director, HR Business Partner

Overview

Lead the HR business partnering team across business units in India while leading the people and organization agenda globally for the Adobe Document Cloud business, partnering with senior Product, Engineering and Research executives as they scale the business and advance AI-led innovation.

What you'll do

• 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 strategies well enough to anticipate organizational and talent implications.
• Translate business and technology priorities into workforce, talent, leadership and organizational strategies.
• 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.
• 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 workforce investment, capability planning and organizational health.
• Ensure human judgment, fairness, transparency and appropriate governance remain central to AI-enabled organizational and talent decisions.
• 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.
• 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'll need

• 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.

Details

• Based in Noida.
• Member of the India Employee Experience leadership team and the global business-unit Employee Experience leadership team; represents India Employee Experience in global business-partner forums when required.