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Senior Director, People Business Partner

Job ID 2025-14403 Date posted 23/06/2025 Location San Jose, California Category HR
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Position TitleSenior Director – Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP)

LocationSan Jose, CA (Hybrid)

Salary:  $280,500 – $379,500 base salary per year. Exceptional benefits/total rewards package

Position Details:Arm is a technology innovator with core expertise in designing highly efficient computer processing solutions.  Arm consistently advances performance benchmarks, enabling the next wave of intelligent, AI-driven, and increasingly autonomous experiences across a vast range of applications, from compact devices to large-scale computing environments.  Arm’s powerful combination of performance and efficiency has been a catalyst for major technological advancements and is set for future breakthroughs!

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP). You will play a pivotal role in shaping this organization’s global workforce and culture, contributing directly to our continued growth and success. We offer a dynamic, collaborative environment, where your expertise and leadership will make a significant impact.

The Senior Director, HRBP will serve as a trusted advisor, coach, and change agent, playing a pivotal role in organizational design, talent management, leadership development and employee engagement initiatives within a fast-paced, evolving global environment. You will translate business needs into HR priorities, ensuring the effective delivery of HR programs and services that are both globally consistent and locally relevant.

You will work closely in partnership with the leaders of some of their most dynamic and fast-paced Sales, Marketing, and Product groups to ensure employees and the organization are fully aligned to deliver their business strategies!

Arm has a high-performance bar, that requires our leaders to build engaged and effective organizations. We need People leaders with the confidence, knowledge, and skill to help leaders make tough decisions in service of business performance.

You will be a key part of the growth and scaling journey of a remarkable company that is shaping the future of technological innovation. You will enjoy remarkable collaborative and fast-paced culture where the best and brightest talents challenge each other every day to do incredible things.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Partner with your leadership teams to bring a people lens to strategic and operational initiatives and problems, operating as a trusted member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
  • Support, coach, and challenge leaders on key people’s decisions.
  • Support leadership teams in ensuring their groups are effective, efficient, and operating in a way that fully supports business strategy.
  • Connect leaders with the right expertise and resources within the People group, ensuring work and driving self-service where appropriate.
  • Bring global People strategy to life in your groups, tailoring it to the group context where needed.
  • Develop leadership, people, and organizational capabilities through development programs and coaching.
  • Lead a particular strategic domain for the People group. Deliver related projects, offer expert advice to colleagues in and beyond the people team.

Qualifications

·       Significant experience partnering with executives and their leadership teams in designing and delivering a people agenda across global groups.

·       Prior experience as an HR Business Partner (preferably to Sales, Marketing, and/or Product organizations – working directly with C-Suite level stakeholders.

·       Track record of resolving complex people issues, deploying expertise and judgement in balancing business and employee-centric perspectives. Commercial decision-making and afocus on delivering business outcomes.

·       Articulate, confident communication with style.

·       Strong ability to get work done through teamwork across a global matrix organization.

·       Breadth of HR expertise across the full employee lifecycle with deep expertise in one or more people/talent/organization specialisms.

·       Software orientation or has previously supported a sales/marketing organization that sells into hyperscale cloud companies is preferred.

·       Prior management consulting experience.

·       Top-tier slide deck presentation (power point, etc.) creation experience; with the ability to present this information to high-level stakeholders concisely.

·       Must have strong writing skills, with the ability to build and present a business case.

·       M&A integration experience is plus.

Salary Range:

$280,500-$379,500 per year

We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.

Accommodations at Arm

At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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