The Director, HRBP is a global team leader and the senior people advisor to the Management Leadership Team (MLT). You report to the Global SVP of People and partner with every MLT member on organization design, talent, performance, engagement, and change. The company is scaling rapidly through a combination of autonomous growth and M&A activity. This role ensures that the human resources in the company are available, performing, and ready for every next growth stage.
This is a role for someone who sees AI as a reason to rethink how a People team works, not as a side project. You will advise leaders on how work, roles, and teams change, and you will use and shape AI in your own work to cover more ground with more insight.
You work alongside People Ops, Recruiting, Benefits, and set the standard for how HR business partnering is done at Kiteworks.
You are deeply curious about what really drives performance, retention, and trust inside each leader's team, and you keep asking until the root cause shows up. Kiteworks highly values people who are focused on delivery: you judge your impact by reorgs, hires, and leadership transitions that land on time with managers ready, not by plans that stay on paper.
You’ll be expected to work from our Amsterdam office every Tuesday through Thursday.
What you’ll do- Advise the MLT. Act as a trusted, candid advisor on people decisions, team structure, leadership effectiveness, and succession.
- Lead org design and workforce planning. Run restructures, role and level design, and headcount planning with Finance and function leaders.
- Coach leaders and drive performance. Run calibration and talent reviews, raise manager quality, and handle senior performance and promotion decisions.
- Own engagement. Read engagement survey results with MLT members, turn them into focused action plans, and track progress.
- Guide global employee relations and compliance. Handle complex or sensitive cases and keep practices consistent across the US, EMEA, and APAC, working with Legal and local counsel.
- Support M&A and change. Lead the people side of acquisitions, reductions, and leadership transitions, including communications and manager readiness.
- Use data and AI. Build insights from HRIS, surveys, and performance data, and share what works with the wider People team.
- Ensure secure handling of employee personal data in compliance with GDPR, including access control and data minimization; support onboarding/offboarding processes aligned with ISO 27001 security policies.
Three AI shifts define this role.
- AI-enabled HRBP work. Use AI for workforce insights, case preparation, manager coaching, and analysis, so one senior partner can support the whole MLT with depth and speed.
- Workforce and org redesign. Advise leaders on how roles, team shapes, skills, and headcount change as AI changes how work gets done, and turn those choices into clear plans.
- Driving AI adoption. Partner with leaders to build AI fluency in their teams, remove blockers, and make new ways of working stick.
How success is measured in the first 12 months
- MLT trust. Every MLT member sees you as a real advisor, shown in direct leadership feedback.
- Engagement and retention. Measurable movement in engagement scores and regretted attrition in the areas you partner with.
- AI adoption. Clear, measurable change in AI use and workflows across covered teams.
- Org change delivery. Reorgs, hires, and leadership transitions land cleanly, on time, and with managers ready.