Senior HR Business Partner & Workforce Strategist

Audible is a global producer and provider of audio storytelling, creating immersive, cinematic experiences that delight listeners worldwide.

The People & Places function at Audible seeks a Senior HR Business Partner & Workforce Strategist. In this hybrid role you will combine strategic HR partnership with workforce planning expertise to serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, diagnose ambiguous organizational plans, translate business strategy into talent decisions, and drive data‑informed planning that optimizes team size, structure, location, and capability.

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leaders across tech and non‑tech orgs, translating business strategy into people strategy that drives performance and sustainable growth.
• Provide candid leadership coaching to help managers build high‑performing, inclusive teams.
• Lead org design and change management with empathy and rigor—finding creative paths forward when playbooks don’t exist.
• Anticipate challenges by staying close to the business, diagnosing root causes early, and delivering adaptive, lasting solutions.
• Strengthen performance, engagement, and retention through lightweight, scalable processes aligned to how Audible operates.
• Drive improvements to talent mechanisms—promotion, calibration, succession, and talent review—in partnership with HRBPs, COEs, and cross‑functional leaders.
• Partner on leading change management within AI transformation—helping teams embrace AI tools while maintaining a people‑first approach.
• Develop and execute 1‑ and 3‑year workforce plans aligned to operational planning cycles, partnering with HR, Finance, and business leadership to ensure the right roles, levels, and locations to deliver on goals.
• Lead end‑to‑end strategic workforce planning—headcount modelling, talent supply/demand analysis, scenario planning—to support multi‑year business objectives.
• Develop AI talent strategies and frameworks, forecasting AI skill needs.
• Design and implement organization structures that optimize for speed, efficiency, and scalability across tech and non‑tech functions, including spans & layers analysis, role ratio optimization, and cost modelling.
• Conduct organizational assessments to identify structural gaps, span of control considerations, talent distribution patterns, redundancies, and opportunities to streamline decision‑making and improve overall org health; present recommendations to Audible’s C‑Suite leaders.
• Drive location strategy decisions—geographic expansion, consolidation, and distributed team design.
• Leverage workforce planning analytics and behavioral insights to deliver data‑informed recommendations that accelerate innovation and enhance customer experience at acceptable cost.
• Define and track metrics that influence stakeholders, measure success, and surface workforce trends informing strategic direction.
• Recognize when solutions require additional technical guidance and advocate for resources by influencing cross‑functional teams.

• Experience working with large global teams.
• 7+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 5 years as an HR Business Partner in high‑growth or complex environments.
• Experience supporting both technical and non‑technical populations.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on workforce planning and organizational design at scale.
• Analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field.

Audible is an Equal Opportunity Employer.