HR Integration & Planning Principal

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The Opportunity The HR Integration & Planning Principal provides strategic leadership across HR by translating enterprise and HR priorities into an integrated HR strategy, multi-year roadmap, operating plan, and coordinated execution across HR. The role leads HR strategic planning, portfolio prioritization, and governance while serving as a strategic integrator across Centers of Excellence, HR Business Partners, Operations, and other HR functions to drive complex, cross-COE priorities from strategy through execution.

The Principal owns the integration and enablement of enterprise-wide HR initiatives, establishing the frameworks, governance, implementation approaches, and decision support needed to align work across HR. The role identifies dependencies, risks, sequencing, and resource implications; drives alignment and accountability across stakeholders; and ensures HR strategies are translated into scalable, executable solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes and strengthen the effectiveness of the HR operating model.

This role is remote eligible in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel. However, individuals residing within a 60-mile radius of a USAA office will be expected to work on-site four days per week. Relocation assistance is not available for this position. What you'll do:

Define and evolve the association HR Enablement operating model, governance framework, and long-term strategic roadmap.

Establish governance, standards, and accountability mechanisms that guide how HR initiatives are prioritized, deployed, and sustained.

Drive alignment across HR functions to ensure initiatives are aligned to association and workforce priorities, coordinated, scalable, and capable of successful execution.

Define association strategies that improve practitioner experience, reduce complexity, and increase execution effectiveness across HR.Lead association enablement and operating model transformation efforts that improve how HR solutions are designed, implemented, adopted, and sustained.

Advise senior leaders on enablement strategy, implementation risk, organizational readiness, and change capacity considerations.

Establish association processes that evaluate initiative prioritization, implementation capacity, and organizational readiness across the HR portfolio.

Leverage association metrics, practitioner insights, and operational performance data to inform strategic decisions and continuous improvement.

Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
12 years of progressive Human Resources experience, including significant experience in HR Business Partner, HR transformation, organizational effectiveness, HR enablement, or HR leadership roles. Demonstrated experience shaping association people strategies, operating models, and organizational capabilities within complex, matrixed organizations.

Demonstrated success designing and leading…