Director, HR Business Partner

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Expedia Group is seeking a strategic

Director, HR Business Partnerto work with , Integrated Marketing & Creative, and Loyalty teams. This alignment is intentional because these teams work closely together to deliver business outcomes. In this role, you’ll work closely with executives to advance both business objectives and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions.
Please note this role is based in Seattle or Austinand follows our hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three in-office days per week.

• Talent Strategy:
  Collaborate with global
  
  People team partners and business leaders to ensure the success of client groups through strategic talent initiatives.
  
  Key areas include identifying high-potential talent, driving succession planning, and building future-focused organizational capabilities.

• Organizational Effectiveness:
  Guide organizational design and change management strategies and implement processes, policies, and guidelines for conducting organizational reviews and improving alignment.

• Strategic Business Partnership:
  Partner closely with the executive leaders to define the overall talent and business strategy, anticipating long-term people needs and translating business plans into HR program objectives.

• Lead organizational structure analysis and design,identifying more effective structures and governance models to align with strategic goals.

• Define and implement organizational principles and healthobjectives, offering strategic insights tooptimizeperformance.

• Design tools (e.g., surveys) to measure organizational effectiveness and assess issues related to structure, talent, and performance.

• Develop and implement programs to improve employee engagement, management capabilities, and leadership development.

• Leverage a deep understanding of business operations and challenges to propose tailored solutions that support organizational objectives.

• Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to co-create practical and impactful solutions.

• Applysystemsthinking to enhance organizational efficiency, recommending improvements across policies, processes, and structures.

• Evaluate the long-term financial and operational impact of proposed solutions to support sustainable business outcomes.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business leaders to design and implement HR programs, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness.

• Apply strong data analysis skills and business acumen to inform decisions related to leadership, structure, and talent development.

• Works closely with business leaders to define the human resource structure, identifying workforce planning needs, leadership and management gaps, skillsets for the future and implement best-practice HR solutions to facilitate drive optimal performance.

• 10+ years’ relevant experience

• Strategic people business partner, experienced in designing end-to-end talent agenda, organizational development, delivery…