Senior People Business Partner, Pset

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Offsite +3

This role is for a Senior People Business Partner who will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders in the PSET (Platform Services & Emerging Technology) organization. The role involves shaping people strategy, influencing leadership decisions, and proactively addressing complex organizational challenges. Responsibilities include translating business strategy into people strategy, identifying organizational risks and opportunities, driving organizational interventions, providing executive coaching, assessing talent needs, and leveraging data to inform decisions. The ideal candidate has extensive HR experience, expertise across multiple HR disciplines, strong business acumen, and the ability to influence senior leaders. Experience partnering with technology organizations and a Master's degree are preferred.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders (VP/SVP level), providing independent perspective, challenge, and counsel on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and talent strategy
  2. Translate business strategy into an integrated people strategy spanning workforce planning, organizational design, leadership capability, talent, and performance
  3. Proactively identify emerging organizational risks and opportunities, frame ambiguity and present clear options and trade-offs to leaders
  4. Drive and influence established organizational interventions to support business objectives, ensuring solutions are contextually grounded and scalable
  5. Anticipate organizational reactions to change and guide leaders through complex transitions with clarity and discipline

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 10+ years of HR experience
  • 7+ years as an HRBP/PBP supporting senior leaders in complex, global environments
  • Expertise across multiple HR disciplines, including: organizational design, talent strategy, workforce planning, performance management, org transformation, executive coaching, employee relations, and change management
  • Ability to influence senior leaders, frame complex organizational problems, and recommend strategic solutions
  • Strong business acumen, including understanding of operating models, organizational structures, and the implications of people decisions on business outcomes
  • Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions and shape leadership thinking
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-paced, evolving environments

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, Industrial/Labor Relations, or related field
  • Executive or professional coaching accreditation
  • Experience partnering with technology, engineering, or product-driven organizations
  • Demonstrated success operating across matrixed, global organizations
  • Experience influencing or representing People strategy at an enterprise or cross-functional level
  • Curiosity and appetite to leverage AI and emerging tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced People strategist
  • independent judgment
  • enterprise perspective
  • strong executive influence
  • shape people strategy
  • influence leadership decisions
  • proactively address complex organizational challenges
  • partner closely with Vice Presidents
  • dynamic, global, and evolving business environment
  • translate business strategy into sustainable organizational outcomes
  • think ahead of the business
  • diagnose root causes
  • frame complex people and organizational issues
  • recommend integrated, forward-looking solutions
  • represent the PBP community in strategic initiatives
  • elevate how People & Places work is delivered
  • partnering with our PSET (Platform Services & Emerging Technology) organization
  • reports to the Senior Director, People Business Partner
  • based in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver
  • providing independent perspective, challenge, and counsel
  • organizational effectiveness
  • leadership capability
  • talent strategy
  • integrated people strategy
  • workforce planning
  • organizational design
  • leadership capability
  • talent
  • performance
  • Proactively identify emerging organizational risks and opportunities
  • frame ambiguity
  • present clear options and trade-offs
  • Drive and influence established organizational interventions
  • support business objectives
  • contextually grounded and scalable
  • Anticipate organizational reactions to change
  • guide leaders through complex transitions
  • clarity and discipline
  • build operating models
  • structures
  • capabilities
  • enable execution today
  • preparing for future-state needs
  • Provide executive coaching and consultation
  • influencing leadership behavior
  • decision-making
  • effectiveness
  • Support leaders through moments of tension, trade-offs, and ambiguity
  • helping turn disagreement into aligned decisions
  • Elevate leadership capability
  • performance
  • talent decisions
  • team dynamics
  • Assess current and emerging talent needs
  • contribute to and shape talent initiatives
  • aligned to business priorities
  • Guide performance, development, and career processes
  • ensure leadership depth
  • future readiness
  • Ensure total rewards and recognition approaches
  • aligned with performance
  • business outcomes
  • organizational values
  • Leverage people and business data
  • extract meaning
  • identify trends
  • translate insights into actionable recommendations
  • Apply strong judgment
  • selecting the most relevant data
  • inform decisions
  • without slowing execution
  • Connect people insights to business outcomes
  • efficiency
  • growth capacity
  • leadership effectiveness
  • Partner closely with Centers of Excellence (OE, L&D, Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Inclusion & Belonging)
  • address complex or novel business needs
  • Represent the PBP community on strategic, cross-functional initiatives
  • influence how People & Places solutions are delivered
  • Collaborate with internal partners
  • support M&A, integration, and other enterprise initiatives
  • required
  • 10+ years of HR experience
  • 7+ years as an HRBP/PBP
  • supporting senior leaders
  • complex, global environments
  • Expertise across multiple HR disciplines
  • organizational design
  • talent strategy
  • workforce planning
  • performance management
  • org transformation
  • executive coaching
  • employee relations
  • change management
  • Ability to influence senior leaders
  • frame complex organizational problems
  • recommend strategic solutions
  • Strong business acumen
  • understanding of operating models
  • organizational structures
  • implications of people decisions on business outcomes
  • Ability to use qualitative and quantitative data
  • inform decisions
  • shape leadership thinking
  • Comfort operating in ambiguity
  • fast-paced, evolving environments
  • Curiosity and appetite to leverage AI and emerging tools
  • improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, Industrial/Labor Relations, or related field
  • Executive or professional coaching accreditation
  • Experience partnering with technology, engineering, or product-driven organizations
  • Demonstrated success operating across matrixed, global organizations
  • Experience influencing or representing People strategy at an enterprise or cross-functional level
  • Leaders seek you out as a thought partner, not just a service provider
  • Organizational issues are surfaced earlier, framed clearly, and addressed with durable solutions
  • Leadership capability, clarity, and decision quality improve within your client group
  • People strategy is visibly aligned to business outcomes and future readiness
  • You are recognized as a Senior PBP expert within the People & Places community