Director, Human Resources Business Partner

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Role Summary

The Director, Human Resources Business Partner will serve as a trusted advisor to senior Application Engineering leaders in GEICO’s Technology organization and translate business priorities into integrated people and organizational strategies. The role will operate in a complex, fast-moving technology environment and partner across HR centers of expertise to strengthen leadership capability, organizational effectiveness, talent outcomes, workforce planning, and change execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Build deep knowledge of the Application Engineering strategy, operating model, talent, delivery priorities, and organizational risks to provide proactive, business-centered counsel.
• Advise senior engineering leaders on organizational design, workforce strategy, leadership effectiveness, succession, talent reviews, performance management, and critical talent retention.
• Use workforce data, business metrics, and organizational insights to identify trends, frame choices, influence decisions, and measure the impact of people strategies.
• Lead the people and change strategy for reorganizations, leadership transitions, new operating models, capability shifts, and other complex transformation work.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen accountability, coaching, feedback, performance differentiation, and development across leadership teams.
• Anticipate talent and organizational risks, develop practical mitigation plans, and ensure leaders understand the tradeoffs and downstream implications of decisions.
• Connect leaders with Talent Acquisition, Compensation, Talent Management, Learning and Development, Employee Relations, People Analytics, and other HR partners; ensure solutions are coordinated and aligned to business needs.
• Promote consistent application of company policies and people practices while exercising sound judgment in complex, sensitive, and confidential matters.
• Collaborate closely with the broader Tech HRBP team to ensure cohesive support across Application Engineering and adjacent Technology organizations.
• Drive disciplined execution, clear ownership, and follow-through across multiple concurrent priorities in an environment where timing and direction may shift.

What Success Looks Like

• Application Engineering leaders view HR as an embedded strategic partner who understands the business and improves decision quality.
• Workforce and organizational decisions are grounded in data, aligned to strategy, and translated into clear action plans.
• Critical roles and talent risks are identified early, with credible succession, development, and retention actions in place.
• Organizational changes are thoughtfully designed, effectively communicated, and executed with appropriate partnership across HR, Legal, Communications, and business leadership.
• Leadership teams demonstrate stronger clarity, accountability, collaboration, and people-management capability.

Required Qualifications

• Significant progressive Human Resources experience, including strategic HRBP leadership supporting complex organizations and senior executives.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Engineering, Technology, Product, or another highly technical and rapidly evolving business environment.
• Proven success leading organizational design, workforce planning, talent management, succession, performance, and large-scale change work.
• Strong analytical capability and experience using data and insights to shape strategy and influence senior leaders.
• Ability to build credibility quickly, challenge constructively, manage ambiguity, and navigate complex stakeholder dynamics.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, written communication, and executive-level facilitation skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a distributed, multi-layered engineering organization through transformation.
• Experience partnering with VP-level or equivalent leaders and leading work across multiple HR disciplines.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional certification.
• Familiarity with technology talent markets, engineering capability planning, and AI-enabled workforce transformation.

Leadership Attributes

• Business-minded and outcomes-oriented, with curiosity about technology and the work of engineering teams.
• Calm, pragmatic, and adaptable in high-pressure or rapidly changing situations.
• Direct and collaborative, with the confidence to offer a clear point of view and the judgment to know when to listen, influence, or escalate.
• Committed to developing leaders, strengthening teams, and creating an environment where associates can perform and grow.

Location

• This role will be hybrid & based out of GEICO’s Palo Alto, CA office.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

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Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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