Principal HR Business Partner, M&A at F5, Inc. in Seattle, WA

Job description

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. At F5, everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. Principal HR Business Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions Reporting to: Director, Business Partners, Product Organization Position Summary The Principal HR Business Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions serves as a senior strategic partner to Product Organization leaders, helping turn business priorities into people and organization strategies that enable performance, growth, and change. This role combines leadership of the People strategy for F5's mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions with responsibility for supporting an assigned client organization within F5’s Product Organization. The balance between these responsibilities will evolve based on business and transaction activity. As an HRBP, this individual will partner with senior leaders on organizational effectiveness, talent, workforce strategy, leadership, culture, and change. When M&A activity arises, this role will serve as F5’s People lead for the transaction, owning the People strategy from diligence and pre-close planning through Day 1 and post-close integration. The role will assess talent, culture, leadership, and organization design and use those insights to shape the integration, making adjustments along the way to help deliver the intended outcomes of the transaction. What You'll Do Mergers & Acquisitions Serve as F5’s People lead for acquisitions and other strategic transactions, working closely with business leaders, Corporate Development, Legal, Finance, HRBPs, and People & Culture specialist teams. Translate the goals of each transaction into a People strategy that addresses organization, leadership, talent, workforce, culture, employee experience, and change. Lead the People component of due diligence, including an assessment of talent, leadership, culture, organization design, and workforce considerations, helping leaders understand associated opportunities and risks. Develop and lead People integration strategies and plans, including key decisions, milestones, dependencies, governance, and measures of success. Advise leaders on organization design, leadership structure, critical talent, retention, workforce transitions, and other people decisions needed to deliver the intended outcomes of the transaction. Lead the People and organizational change aspects of integration, creating clarity for leaders and employees while supporting engagement and business continuity. Bring together HRBPs and specialist teams across Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, HR Operations, Benefits, Mobility, People Systems, Communications, and other areas to ensure a coordinated approach. Build and continuously improve F5's M&A People playbook, tools, governance, and practices, applying lessons learned to strengthen future transactions. Strategic HR Business Partnership Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within the Product Organization, developing a deep understanding of their business, organization, talent, and prioriti