Sr. HR Business Partner
People & HR
United States
USD 144k-234k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 16, 2025
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in Sunnyvale.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
We are looking for a forward-thinking Sr. HR Business Partner to partner with Productivity Engineering and their global leadership teams across the Information Security, CISO and Enterprise Innovation (IT) and TPM organization. The overall client group size for this role ~500+ employees. The successful candidate will be able to influence effectively across all levels of leadership, demonstrate deep business acumen and the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while balancing challenging the status quo with meeting the business where they are. This role encompasses business partnership and strategy, talent initiatives, employee relations, organizational design, and change management.
This role will also lead and contribute to strategic talent projects across their client groups and the Engineering HR team. This role will partner closely with other GTO functions, such as talent acquisition, compensation, and learning and development, to deliver integrated HR solutions.
Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $144,000 to $234,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in Sunnyvale.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
We are looking for a forward-thinking Sr. HR Business Partner to partner with Productivity Engineering and their global leadership teams across the Information Security, CISO and Enterprise Innovation (IT) and TPM organization. The overall client group size for this role ~500+ employees. The successful candidate will be able to influence effectively across all levels of leadership, demonstrate deep business acumen and the ability to navigate through ambiguity, while balancing challenging the status quo with meeting the business where they are. This role encompasses business partnership and strategy, talent initiatives, employee relations, organizational design, and change management.
This role will also lead and contribute to strategic talent projects across their client groups and the Engineering HR team. This role will partner closely with other GTO functions, such as talent acquisition, compensation, and learning and development, to deliver integrated HR solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with senior leaders to understand business goals and translate them into HR strategies and initiatives.
- Provide strategic guidance on organizational development, workforce planning, and talent management.
- Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and workforce analytics to identify and develop key talent.
- Define and drive the delivery of talent processes & programs globally.
- Actively participate in the functional leadership teams as a partner to the business
- Understand the business and its challenges to help address the organization and talent needs
- Develop and cultivate deep relationships with other HRBPs and the Centers of Excellence
- Assist with the change process as the company meets the challenges of the need to continue to grow and scale
- Deliver short-term solutions while also solving for long-term problems by addressing immediate challenges and underlying causes
- Improve manager capabilities through coaching and implementation of management development programs and opportunities
- Use data to measure success: learn, iterate, and improve; analyze trends and develop pro-active actions to further support the business objectives
- Communicate to a diverse population and understand when to flex based on the audience
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of HR experience
- Experience with Global teams.
- Demonstrated experience in the various HR functional areas, especially organization development, change management, and leadership coaching.
- Proven experience in leading HR initiatives that drive business results.
- High integrity and will stop at nothing to safeguard compliance standards and company values.
- Ability to work at all levels of the HR “stack” - strategic, operational, and tactical.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to think creatively and contribute to organizational growth.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Ability to thrive in an unstructured environment and work independently.
- Critical thinker with success in developing innovative solutions to address business issues.
- Ability to manage multiple, complex issues and prioritize projects concurrently.
- Ability to lead through an organizational assessment and diagnosis to turn business strategies into action.
- Coach and influence to achieve business results.
- Make decisions that consider global context and enable cross-organizational collaboration.
- Use systems thinking i.e. sees the interdependencies and puts the pieces together to design solutions.
- Embody and champion a culture of belonging.
- Ability to leverage data and insights to influence and drive talent outcomes.
- Strategic
- Influence without authority
- Design scalable solutions
- Demonstrate courage in difficult situations
- Resourceful & creative
The pay range for this role is $144,000 to $234,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.