Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Global Tech & AI

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the role

Technology & AI is a newly established function for AXA XL, with 1,400 colleagues across 19 countries and a total workforce of around 3,000, operating in one of the fastest-changing talent and business environments. With the recent appointment of our Chief Technology & AI Officer, we have a clear focus on strategic ambition and enterprise transformation, bringing together people, technology, and the future of work.

We are seeking a strategic HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders across the Technology & AI function, translating our strategic ambition into workforce requirements, shaping the organization, and building the capabilities needed for the future. As a Senior HRBP within the Global HR Tech & AI team, you will be a strategic workforce architect, executing a forward-looking talent strategy while building robust and trusted business partnerships. This role will also depend on deep, proactive collaboration across our global HR network to deliver broader AXA XL people strategic initiatives effectively and consistently. You will report to the Global Head of Human Resources, Technology & AI Office.

Responsibilities

• Strategic workforce planning: Translate our technology & AI strategy into a forward-looking people, organization, and workforce agenda, executing our workforce strategy with a core focus on skills and capabilities needed 2–5 years from now.
• Operating model & organization design: Assess profiles and skills to understand our work and outcomes, including build/buy/borrow/automate decisions and the evolving intersection of human talent, automation, and AI-enabled work.
• External market orientation: Actively engage in emerging Tech & AI talent trends, scarce/new skills, competitor practices, and evolving workforce models across all industries alongside Insurance.
• Commercial & enterprise acumen: Understand technology investment, productivity, capacity, location strategy, and talent economics while connecting Tech & AI decisions to broader enterprise implications.
• Data-driven decision making: Use workforce intelligence, skills data, and scenario planning to shape decisions and challenge assumptions, moving to predictive analytics to execute our workforce strategy.

Requirements

People | Daring Partner & Change Leader

• Resilience & comfort in ambiguity: Remain effective and ability to pivot when priorities shift, in a transformative landscape where we are solving new emerging business challenges.
• Coaching & Executive counsel: Build credibility to challenge senior leaders constructively, to onboard or integrate into a newly formed Tech & AI leadership team, building high performance.
• Strategic influence & trust: Build trusted relationships quickly and influence senior stakeholders through credibility, insight, and collaboration.
• Change leadership at pace: Create readiness, adoption, and sustained behavior change while the workforce evolves.
• Learning agility & curiosity: Possess a relentless appetite to understand emerging technologies, workforce trends, and the evolution of technology & AI impacts on our people/organization.
• Solution oriented: Apply LEAN thinking to look at the problem we are solving for and creating value. Shaping solutions from ambiguity, test, learn, course-correct, and keep moving – iterate and evolve.

Technical | Workforce Architect & Tech-Fluent

• AI & technology fluency: Ability to understand a technical landscape, tools, technology & concepts (GenAI, automation, data, applications, integrations, product model) and the broader technology ecosystem to credibly engage technical leaders and understand workforce implications.
• AI-enabled workforce design: Assess our function & work that can be augmented, automated, or redesigned and which human capabilities become more important as a result.
• Skills-based workforce planning: Challenge current ways of working to be relentless in our pursuit for profiles/capabilities required to execute, with a future-lens, including skills adjacency, reskilling, transferability, and targeted acquisition.
• Workforce transformation & strategy: Deliver solutions aligning to our workforce strategy, anticipate capability gaps, and create practical build/buy/borrow/automate strategies.
• Digital adoption & AI enablement: Recognize that deploying technology is not transformation; help leaders create the conditions for success – skills, behaviors, culture, and ways of working required.
• Responsible AI / people-risk awareness: Understand governance, ethics, bias, privacy, employee relations, and emerging regulations to recognize risk and engage Legal, Compliance, and Risk appropriately.

Benefits

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We know that an inclusive culture enables business growth and is critical to our success. We have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance, and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability, and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits.
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index.
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do. We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

• Competitive retirement savings plan.
• Health and wellness programs.
• Wide range of learning opportunities to hone professional skills and position for the next step in careers.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience,” focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars

• Valuing nature: Protecting and restoring nature by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: Building a net-zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: Incorporating ESG considerations into internal processes and practices to build resilience from the roots of our business through training, engaging partners, and evolving governance and reporting.

AXA Hearts in Action: Volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, including Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and the annual Global Day of Giving.

Pay

The U.S. base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $190,000 USD. Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual’s skills, experience, and location. The salary range noted above is applicable only for US applicants.