Senior Director, Talent Strategy Partner

Overview

In this Senior Director role, you will shape and execute the talent and organization agenda for Expedia Group’s divisions, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You will partner with HRBPs to design pipelines, leadership development, and mobility strategies, while leveraging data to drive organizational performance. You’ll lead succession planning, talent reviews, and DEI-aligned processes, ensuring scalable structures and capabilities. This position offers impact across global, matrixed teams as Expedia grows its traveler-first mission. You will influence enterprise talent strategies and sponsor product roadmaps that simplify HR processes and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Co-create divisional talent agendas with HRBP Leaders to drive near-term priorities and long-term strategic plans
• Assess global talent and learning needs, translate insights into a data-driven talent strategy and roadmap
• Lead end-to-end succession planning and leadership talent reviews for key roles, partnering with divisional leadership and Talent Acquisition for VP+ pipelines
• Use talent and organizational health metrics to identify risks and gaps, translating into concrete development, moves, hires, and coaching actions
• Coach leaders and HRBPs on equitable talent identification and assessment practices
• Influence leaders on efficient, scalable org designs aligned with enterprise frameworks and headcount/finance guardrails
• Leverage performance, succession, promotion, attrition and engagement metrics to inform decisions and track progress
• Lead readiness and change management to embed talent products, serve as SME for HRBPs and leaders on global talent products, and influence product roadmaps
• Collaborate with Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Learning, Total Rewards, People Tech, and HRBPs to deliver integrated solutions

Key requirements

• 14+ years in Talent Management, Organizational Development/Effectiveness, or HRBP roles
• Experience partnering with C-suite and senior leaders in complex, global, matrixed organizations
• Proven ability to shape global talent and org strategies with broad scope
• Deep knowledge of performance, potential, readiness, and succession frameworks and coaching capabilities
• Strong org design and change management skills with pragmatic execution plans
• Data fluency in interpreting people/business data and using insights to guide decisions
• Relationship building and cross-functional collaboration across COEs
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Psychology, Business, or related field; advanced IO psychology degree and certifications are a plus

• strong relationship building
• executive coaching
• collaboration across functions
• data fluency and analytics
• org design methodologies
• change management practices

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