Director, HR Business Partner & Talent Management

The role

This leader serves as the primary HR Business Partner to the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Commercial Officer. You will shape people, organization, and talent strategies to enable manufacturing, operations, supply chain, commercial, and business development organizations to scale.

What you will do

• Serve as the strategic People partner to the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, and their leadership teams.
• Partner with executives to align people strategies with business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor and coach on organizational design, leadership development, and succession planning.
• Lead and develop a small team of HR Business Partners supporting Nevada and South Carolina manufacturing facilities.
• Build strong relationships from executive leaders to frontline employees.
• Partner with leaders to assess organizational capabilities and workforce risks.
• Leverage workforce data and talent insights to improve business outcomes.
• Partner with Recruiting, Total Rewards, HR Operations, and People Analytics to deliver integrated people solutions.
• Design and implement leadership development programs.
• Build career pathing and development frameworks and establish talent review processes.

Required qualifications

• Proven success serving as a strategic advisor to senior executives in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate business strategy into talent and organizational solutions.
• Demonstrated experience building leadership development, succession planning, career development, and talent management programs.
• Experience partnering effectively across Recruiting, Total Rewards, HR Operations, People Analytics, and other People functions.
• Experience supporting manufacturing, operations, industrial, energy, or similarly complex workforce environments.
• A hands-on leadership style with a willingness to roll up your sleeves and personally drive outcomes.
• Exceptional coaching, influencing, communication, and relationship-building skills across all levels of the organization.
• Equally comfortable in executive leadership meetings, manager coaching conversations, and on the manufacturing floor.

About the company

Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 by JB Straubel, co-founder and former CTO of Tesla. It is the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, recovering, refining, and redeploying critical minerals from end-of-life batteries.