Job Summary
The Executive Director of Human Resources for the Engineering Organization is the senior HR leader supporting FreeWheel’s global technology function and the Strata Organization. This role partners directly with the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Strata. This person will work closely with their leadership teams to define and execute the people strategy for a large, complex, and highly technical and sales organizations responsible for FreeWheel’s product engineering, architecture, platform, and infrastructure capabilities and the growth and development of Strata organizationJob Description
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership
Serve as the senior HR advisor to the CTO and engineering leadership team, influencing decisions on organizational priorities, engineering strategy, and workforce implications.
Serves as the senior HR advisor to the SVP, General Manager of Strata shaping decisions on organizational priorities and workforce design to enable this engineering and revenue generating organization for long-term success.
Develop and execute a long-term people strategy aligned with the engineering roadmap, technical vision, and product innovation goals, people strategy aligned with the engineering roadmap, technical vision, and product innovation goals.
Guide organizational design and evolution, including global workforce planning, capacity modeling, team structure, and location strategy.
Provide executive level coaching to engineering leaders, strengthening leadership capability, cross team alignment, and team performance, level coaching to engineering leaders, strengthening leadership capability, cross team alignment, and team performance.
Leverage data, engineering productivity insights, and market trends to proactively identify talent needs, risk areas, and organizational opportunities.
Talent Strategy & Technical Workforce Development
Lead the design and execution of talent strategies for the engineering organization—covering succession planning, career frameworks, technical skills development, and engineering leadership pipelines.
Drive initiatives to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent, including modernizing hiring processes, leveling frameworks, and career pathing.
Partner with Talent Management and L&D to build targeted programs for engineering managers, architects, and emerging technical leaders.
Establish mechanisms to strengthen engineering engagement, technical culture, innovation, and team health.
Organizational Effectiveness & Change Leadership
Lead largescale organizational transformations, including operating model evolution, agile adoption, cross functional alignment, and integration efforts
Provide strategic HR leadership on global engineering initiatives such as modernization, cloud transformation, and new product platform development.
Ensure change management frameworks drive clarity, adoption, and sustained organizational outcomes.
Employee Relations & Risk Mitigation
Oversee resolution of high complexity employee relations matters, ensuring consistency, fairness, and legal compliance across global locations, complex employee relations matters, ensuring consistency, fairness, and legal compliance across global locations.
Anticipate and address workplace trends, engineering team challenges, and organizational risks.
Ensure HR practices comply with all relevant global employment laws and internal Comcast/FreeWheel policies.
Maintain high standards of Workday data integrity and compliance reporting.
Cross Functional HR Leadership Functional HR Leadership
Partner closely with Centers of Excellence to deploy enterprise HR programs in a way that fits the realities of a technical organization.
Influence COE design of engineering specific initiatives such as technical compensation, career architecture, and skills-based development, specific initiatives such as technical compensation, career architecture, and skills based development.
Mentor and lead HR team members supporting engineering groups directly or through matrixed structures.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
Use engineering appropriate metrics (e.g., productivity indicators, attrition patterns, skills inventory, capacity models) to inform decisions and measure success, appropriate metrics (e.g., productivity indicators, attrition patterns, skills inventory, capacity models) to inform decisions and measure success.
Lead continuous improvement of HR processes to ensure scalability, speed, and alignment with global engineering workflows.
Champion digital tools, automation, and modern HR practices that increase HR’s strategic value.
Employees at all levels are expected to:
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Skills
Leadership Management, Organizational Strategy, Talent StrategyCompensation
Primary Location Pay Range: $202,732.62 - $304,098.93This job can be performed in Illinois with a Pay Range of $177,391.04 - $304,098.93Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
Education
Bachelor's DegreeWhile possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.Certifications (if applicable)
Relevant Work Experience
10 Years +Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.