Senior Director, HR Partner

**Who We Are** Applied Materials is a global leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. We design, build and service cutting-edge equipment that helps our customers manufacture display and semiconductor chips – the brains of devices we use every day. As the foundation of the global electronics industry, Applied enables the exciting technologies that literally connect our world – like AI and IoT. If you want to push the boundaries of materials science and engineering to create next generation technology, join us to deliver material innovation that changes the world. **What We Offer** Salary: $200,000.00 - $275,000.00 Location: Santa Clara,CA You’ll benefit from a supportive work culture that encourages you to learn, develop, and grow your career as you take on challenges and drive innovative solutions for our customers. We empower our team to push the boundaries of what is possible—while learning every day in a supportive leading global company. Visit our Careers website to learn more. At Applied Materials, we care about the health and wellbeing of our employees. We’re committed to providing programs and support that encourage personal and professional growth and care for you at work, at home, or wherever you may go. Learn more about our [benefits](https://hrportal.ehr.com/applied/). **Key Responsibilities** - **Shape enterprise and BU strategy through executive influence:** Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior executives, co-architecting workforce strategies that anticipate market shifts, growth trajectories, and emerging risks. Proactively influence enterprise and BU priorities, ensuring alignment between business goals, organizational design, and talent strategies to enable sustained competitive advantage. - **Lead forward-looking organization and talent strategy:** Anticipate organizational needs by diagnosing trends in capability, structure, and leadership effectiveness before they impact performance. Architect integrated talent strategies—including succession, leadership development, workforce planning, and external pipelining—to build a resilient, future-ready leadership bench and critical capabilities. - **Elevate executive leadership capability and effectiveness:** Provide candid counsel, challenge thinking, and coach senior executives to elevate leadership impact, team performance, and organizational health. Serve as a key influencer on leadership decisions, team composition, and culture shaping at the highest levels of the organization. - **Drive enterprise-level organizational effectiveness and transformation:** Define and lead large-scale organization design, operating model evolution, and transformation initiatives. Ensure clarity in decision rights, accountability, and cross-functional integration to accelerate execution, improve agility, and enable scalable growth across complex, global environments. - **Champion a connected, high-performance “One HR” culture:** Actively create alignment and connectivity across HR Partners, COEs, and regions, fostering a seamless and collaborative “One HR” approach. Model enterprise thinking, break down silos, and ensure consistent, high-impact HR delivery that elevates both business outcomes and employee experience. - **Lead complex, high-impact change and engagement strategies:** Design and orchestrate enterprise-wide change strategies addressing business transformations, integrations, and cultural evolution. Ensure clear communication, strong leadership alignment, and sustained engagement to drive adoption and results. - **Leverage advanced analytics to shape strategic decisions:** Translate enterprise data and workforce insights into actionable strategies, proactively identifying risks and opportunities. Use analytics to inform executive decision-making on talent, organization effectiveness, and long-term workforce investments. - **Lead and scale HR leadership capability:** Develop and insp…