People Partner, Sr Director

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Seeking a Senior Director, Human Resources to lead and modernize the people function for a defense-oriented business in a regulated national security environment. This strategic role involves aligning workforce strategy with mission execution, growth, and compliance, partnering with executive leadership and shared services. Requires deep HR expertise, executive presence, and experience in complex, regulated industries.

Ansvarsområden

  • Serve as the senior HR leader and trusted advisor to AGI executives, program leaders, and functional leaders on workforce strategy, organizational design, talent risk, culture, leadership effectiveness, and employee engagement.
  • Translate AGI business priorities, defense customer commitments, and growth objectives into a practical multi-year people strategy.
  • Partner with the parent company shared services organization to deliver HR programs efficiently while ensuring solutions are adapted to AGI operating requirements.
  • Use workforce analytics, talent data, and AI-enabled insights responsibly to identify hiring bottlenecks, retention risks, succession gaps, leadership needs, and opportunities for HR process modernization.
  • Lead HR strategy for an organization supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, aerospace, defense, or federal contracting customers.
  • Partner closely with Security, Legal, Contracts, Compliance, Ethics, Program Management, and Finance to support requirements tied to cleared personnel, classified programs, and government customer expectations.
  • Build workforce plans that align hiring, skills, clearance requirements, location strategy, labor categories, compensation, and program economics.
  • Partner with parent company Talent Acquisition and HR shared services to attract, assess, hire, and onboard high-quality talent.
  • Develop executive and technical succession plans, leadership pipelines, key role coverage, and retention strategies.
  • Lead performance management, goal alignment, engagement, recognition, and culture initiatives.
  • Operate effectively in a Proxy / FOCI-mitigated governance structure, ensuring HR practices support applicable laws and security requirements.
  • Maintain HR readiness for audits, customer reviews, investigations, employee relations matters, policy reviews, and compliance inquiries.

Krav

  • 12+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant senior HR leadership, HR business partner, or people leadership responsibility in a complex, matrixed, or regulated business.
  • Experience supporting aerospace, defense, national security, government contracting, technology, manufacturing, engineering, or similarly regulated environments strongly preferred.
  • Demonstrated success advising executives, leading HR teams or matrixed HR delivery models, and partnering with shared services / centers of excellence to deliver enterprise-scale HR programs.
  • Experience supporting cleared or sensitive workforces, government program organizations, proxy companies, Special Security Agreement environments, FOCI-mitigated entities, or similar governance structures preferred.
  • Deep knowledge of HR strategy, talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee relations, compensation, benefits, performance management, talent development, succession planning, organizational design, and change management.
  • Strong command of U.S. employment law, HR compliance, documentation practices, workplace investigations, manager coaching, and employee relations resolution.
  • Ability to use HR data, workforce analytics, HRIS platforms, AI-enabled insights, and business metrics to influence decisions while protecting employee privacy and ensuring appropriate governance.
  • Experience partnering with Finance on labor planning, budgets, program staffing, headcount management, compensation affordability, and workforce risk.
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Labor Relations, Organizational Development, or a related discipline required.
  • Professional certification such as SHRM-SCP, SHRM-CP, SPHR, PHR, or equivalent is desirable.
  • Familiarity with defense industrial base practices, cleared personnel processes, government contracting, export controls, and FOCI/Proxy governance is highly desirable.
  • Executive presence and sound judgment in sensitive, confidential, and high-stakes situations.
  • Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution in a growing, mission-critical business.
  • Strong collaboration across parent company shared services, AGI leadership, Security, Legal, Finance, Program Management, and functional teams.
  • Clear, credible communication with executives, employees, customers, auditors, government stakeholders, and board/proxy governance participants.
  • High integrity, discretion, accountability, and commitment to fair, compliant, mission-aligned HR practices.

Önskade kvalifikationer

  • Advanced degree preferred.
  • The ideal candidate is a business-oriented HR executive who has built credibility with technical, operational, and executive stakeholders in environments where people strategy directly affects customer delivery, compliance, and mission outcomes.
  • This person is comfortable working through shared services and centers of excellence, but remains close enough to the business to understand program pressures, talent risks, culture dynamics, and leadership needs.
  • They can modernize HR operations using data and AI responsibly while honoring strict confidentiality, security, governance, and Proxy environment constraints.

Förmåner

  • In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses.
  • Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package.
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