Director, HR Business Partner - IT & Digital Technology

Overview

The Director, HR Business Partner – IT and Digital Technology for Crocs, Inc leads the people strategy and execution for the global technology organization, partnering with leaders to translate business priorities into scalable talent solutions. This enterprise-minded leader connects strategy to execution, uses experience, data and external perspective to shape and influence decisions, and partners to build the leadership and organizational capabilities required for growth, transformation, and employee engagement.

What You'll Do

• Serve as a trusted advisor to IT and Digital Technology leaders, translating business strategy into talent and workforce planning initiatives that enable scalable growth, transformation, and execution across global, matrixed teams.
• Partner and influence across business leaders, HR Centers of Excellence, Finance, Legal, and other enterprise stakeholders to align priorities and deliver integrated, scalable people solutions.
• Lead organizational effectiveness efforts, including organization design, operating models, workforce planning, and critical capability strategies that strengthen performance and support future business needs.
• Drive talent outcomes through succession planning, performance management, compensation, employee engagement, and development strategies that strengthen bench, accelerate growth, and retain critical talent.
• Use people analytics, business metrics, employee insights, and external market trends to anticipate organizational risks, challenge assumptions, and recommend practical, data-driven actions.
• Coach senior leaders and leadership teams to improve performance, decision-making, accountability, leadership effectiveness, and overall team capability, providing candid and constructive counsel when needed.
• Partner with leaders through complex organizational change and transformation initiatives by building commitment, anticipating employee and business impacts, and equipping leaders to adopt and sustain new ways of working.
• Guide sensitive employee relations and organizational matters with sound judgment and appropriate partnership with Legal, balancing business needs, employee experience, risk management, and continuous improvement of HR practices.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including strategic HR business partnering across core disciplines and at least three years leading people, teams, or significant enterprise work.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives and translating business strategy into talent, organization, and culture priorities in a global, matrixed environment.
• Experience supporting technology, digital, e-commerce, data, product, or other rapidly evolving functions; understanding of technology talent markets and transformation is strongly preferred.
• Strong capability in workforce planning, organization design, succession, talent development, performance, rewards, employee relations, and change leadership.
• Business and financial acumen, with the ability to use data, insights, and external perspective to identify patterns, evaluate tradeoffs, and influence decisions.
• Proven ability to connect cross-functionally, build trusted relationships, influence without direct authority, communicate with clarity and conviction, and coach leaders through growth, ambiguity, and change.
• High levels of integrity, discretion, courage, and sound judgement, with a track record of developing talent, driving accountability, and balancing employee experience, business outcomes, and risk.