Senior People Business Partner

The role

You will serve as the senior People leader for APAC, supporting employees in Japan, Korea, Australia, and other emerging geographies. You will act as a business strategist, lead end-to-end People programs, and connect regional perspectives with the Sunnyvale headquarters.

What you will do

• Act as the business strategist for APAC
• Translate business goals into talent decisions including org design, workforce planning, leveling, and succession
• Use data to spot attrition risk and capability gaps
• Lead end-to-end People programs from onboarding through exit
• Coordinate payroll, benefits, leave, compensation, performance, engagement, and employee relations
• Direct HQ People Operations, Payroll, Legal, Total Rewards, and local advisors or vendors
• Build working versions of infrastructure where it does not exist
• Bring regional perspectives into global decisions
• Support expansion into new countries, reorganizations, and leadership transitions
• Lead calibration, promotion, and talent review

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of HR experience
• 3+ years partnering directly with senior leaders
• Experience as the sole or lead People leader for a country or region
• Breadth across the full HR function: employee relations, compensation, payroll and leave administration, performance management, org design, and engagement
• Working knowledge of employment practices in Japan and Korea
• Strong business acumen and data fluency
• High agency and strong judgment
• Record of influencing in both directions
• Record of leading change, including implementing global programs locally and guiding teams through growth or reorganization
• Comfort working across time zones with a California-based team

Nice to have

• Experience in high-tech
• Business-level fluency in Japanese or Korean
• Experience supporting engineering, research, or other highly technical organizations
• Experience supporting expansion into new countries, including entity setup and work with an employer of record or PEO
• Experience building People programs from scratch in a high-growth company

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.