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. 

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 inspire a high-performing HR organization, coaching senior HR talent and building capability across the HR Partner network. Set the standard for strategic partnership, influencing without authority, and enterprise leadership. Demonstrate organizational agility to leading direct and matrix team members.

• Own and deliver enterprise-wide HR priorities: Lead and sponsor critical, enterprise-level initiatives that shape the future of the HR function and business performance, ensuring measurable impact at scale.

Functional Leadership: Demonstrates deep expertise across talent, organization design, and transformation, integrating multiple HR disciplines to drive enterprise-wide outcomes in a rapidly evolving business environment.

Enterprise Business Acumen: Shapes business strategy through a deep understanding of market dynamics, financial drivers, and competitive positioning; translates these into differentiated talent and organization strategies. Maintains an enterprise perspective, balancing needs of the client organization with those of the company.

Strategic Leadership & Organizational Impact: Leads across boundaries—business units, geographies, and functions—to deliver integrated, enterprise-level outcomes. Drives alignment between strategy, execution, and culture to achieve sustained performance.

Problem Solving & Innovation: Anticipates complex business challenges and leads the development of innovative, scalable solutions that address systemic issues and position the organization for future success.

Impact & Influence: Operates with significant autonomy to shape executive decisions and business direction. Influences outcomes at the highest levels through credibility, data-driven insights, and strategic foresight.

Interpersonal Effectiveness: Builds deep trust with executives and HR leaders globally; navigates complexity and ambiguity with confidence, while aligning diverse stakeholders to a shared vision and driving decisive action.

Culture and Values: Embodies and reinforces Applied Materials’ Standards of Business Conduct, demonstrating the highest levels of integrity, accountability, and ethical leadership. Champions an inclusive, connected culture that fosters collaboration, innovation, and shared ownership of results across the enterprise.

Additional Information

Time Type:

Full time

Employee Type:

Assignee / Regular

Travel:

Yes, 10% of the Time

Relocation Eligible:

Yes

The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on multiple factors including location, hire grade, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and with consideration of internal equity of our current team members. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation such as participation in a bonus and a stock award program, as applicable.

For all sales roles, the posted salary range is the Target Total Cash (TTC) range for the role, which is the sum of base salary and target bonus amount at 100% goal achievement.

Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

In addition, Applied endeavors to make our careers site accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact us via e-mail at Accommodations_Program@amat.com, or by calling our HR Direct Help Line at 877-612-7547, option 1, and following the prompts to speak to an HR Advisor. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.