Who We Are
Applied Materials is the global leader in materials science and engineering solutions that are at the foundation of virtually every new semiconductor chip and advanced display in the world. The equipment that we create and service is essential to advancing AI and accelerating the commercialization of next-generation semiconductor chips. Join us and push the boundaries of materials science and engineering in a company at the foundation of the electronics industry. The work we do together advances the world’s technology.
What We Offer
Location:
Rehovot,ISR
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About the role
This is a seat at the division management table. You will partner directly with the division's executive team and with C-level stakeholders, shaping how the organization is built, led, and scaled. Alongside the strategic work, you will lead cross-organizational projects end to end — from framing the problem to landing the change in the field.
What you'll be doing
Strategic partnership with division management
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the division's leadership team and C-level stakeholders on organizational strategy, structure, and talent.
- Translate business strategy into a people agenda — and defend it with data and a clear point of view, including when it means disagreeing with senior leaders.
- Anticipate organizational risk before it becomes a business problem.
Lead cross-organizational projects
- Own complex, multi-site initiatives that cut across functions, geographies, and the US HQ–Israel axis.
- Drive them personally: scope, stakeholder alignment, design, execution, and measurement.
Organizational design and development
- Lead org design and redesign — structure, roles, decision rights, spans and layers, operating rhythms.
- Design and deliver OD interventions that measurably improve team and organizational effectiveness.
- Guide team formation, integration, and development, including in reorgs and post-acquisition contexts.
Talent and leadership
- Lead organizational and talent reviews, succession planning, and capability building for critical roles.
- Coach and develop senior managers and managers-of-managers on performance, career development, org leadership, and employee relations.
- Design and personally facilitate leadership development programs.
Change management
- Design and execute change, communication, and engagement strategies for significant organizational shifts.
Delivery and analytics
- Partner with HR COEs and HR Operations to land global HR initiatives locally without losing the intent.
- Use Workday, Workforce Dashboard, and your own analysis to make evidence-based recommendations.
What you should have
Required
- Bachelor's degree; Master's in OD, Organizational Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, or HR — a strong advantage.
- 10+ years of HR experience, including HRBP responsibility at division or business-unit level.
- Proven track record partnering with executive-level leaders — with real evidence of influencing decisions, not just supporting them.
- Experience in a global corporation headquartered in the US — comfortable operating across matrix reporting lines, HQ-driven processes
- Demonstrated ownership of cross-organizational projects with measurable business outcomes.
- Strong business acumen: able to read a business challenge, diagnose the organizational root cause, and recommend a solution the business will actually adopt.
- Excellent English, written and spoken.
Advantage
- Experience in multidisciplinary, engineering- or technology-intensive organizations
- Deep organizational development and organizational design experience: you have led OD interventions and org redesigns yourself, not sponsored them.
Who will succeed here
- Both altitudes, no ego. You can frame a three-year organizational strategy and also build the deck, clean the data, and run the session yourself. Nothing is beneath you.
- Independent operator. You bring a point of view, you don't wait for direction, and you're comfortable being the only HR person in a room full of executives.
- Resilient in ambiguity. Priorities shift; you re-anchor quickly rather than stall.
- Credible with technical leaders. You earn trust with substance and evidence, not process.
Additional Information
Time Type:
Full time
Employee Type:
Assignee / Regular
Travel:
Yes, 10% of the Time
Relocation Eligible:
No
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.