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HR Business Partner

Job ID 10135336 Location Glendale, California, United States Business ESPN Date posted Oct. 24, 2025
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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

At Disney, we are storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. We can do this through using and developing groundbreaking technology and opening up the boundaries to bring stories to life through our movies, products, interactive games, parks and resorts, and media networks. Now is your chance to join our team in delivering unparalleled creative content to audiences around the world!

When we grow and develop our people, we’re investing in our future. As forward-looking Human Resources professionals, we are the champions of this investment. The Human Resources team does so much more than just support our employees…we engage our people, inspire change, and help our businesses achieve results. How do we do this? By crafting the employee experience on all levels. By collaborating with our clients to build and implement innovative business strategies. By being a true thought partner and proactively anticipating business cycles. By fostering leadership success and being leaders in change management. By enabling thoughtful decisions, using business data, metrics, and external market insights.

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology is looking for an HR Business Partner to join our dynamic HR Team in Glendale, CA!  The HR Business Partner sits at the intersection of HR and the business and will be focused on supporting the Content Platforms & Operations organization within DEEP&T.

The Human Resource Business Partner contributes to defining and implementing a Human Resource strategy that aligns and integrates the client strategy and objectives. This role serves as a strategic partner and serves as an expert consultant to business leaders within the DEEP&T team by developing and delivering integrated and inclusive HR services, including organizational and leader effectiveness, change management, organizational design, and learning opportunities.

If you're ready for an opportunity of a lifetime with DEEP&T, we'd love to hear from you!

What You Will Do

  • Lead day-to-day HR issues for assigned client groups as a strategic business partner, ensuring that HR solutions make valuable contributions to the client’s organization and frequently soliciting feedback to that end

  • Deliver HR services to clients resulting in a seamless point of contact to the broader HR organization and ensure successful integration of functional partner initiatives and expertise

  • Understand the business and play a meaningful role in driving the people initiatives aligned to the business strategy

  • Project manage assigned HR initiatives and special projects across the client groups. Initiatives may include performance management, talent planning, compensation planning, career development and organization design

  • Serve as a credible partner and “one stop shop” for employees to voice concerns, ask questions and request assistance

  • Intake employee relations issues for assigned client groups, resolving minor issues independently and partnering with Employee Relations team for investigations

  • Guide business leaders on HR policies and processes, including talent planning, learning, and performance management to promote engagement and a culture of continuous growth and development

  • Collaborate with functional HR teams, maximizing their expertise to implement human resources strategies and enable business objectives and drive business growth

  • Analyze trends and metrics, collaborating with HR functional experts to develop solutions, make recommendations and develop programs to successfully support the people needs of client groups

  • Maintain an effective level of business literacy to provide a consultative approach to deliver HR services. Leverage HR / business skills and knowledge to challenge or influence leadership in decision-making processes

  • Identify issues that require escalation

  • Use understanding of individual and organizational dynamics to facilitate onboarding, talent management, internal mobility, and overall team development

  • Support organization design projects to streamline and implement new structures, roles and/or processes that build speed and efficiency and support rapidly shifting business demands

  • Collaborate with other HR Business Partners, encouraging a positive work relationship, and partnering on projects and initiatives across multiple groups within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Minimum 3 years of progressively responsible experience as an HR Business Partner in a dynamic environment or equivalent role, preferably within a tech organization

  • Experience working with senior executives in an “influence without authority” role

  • Strong consulting and conflict management skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and written and verbal communication

  • Ability to perform with a “roll-up your sleeves” attitude, equally adept at thinking strategically and operationally

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and manage ambiguity – dealing with issues that do not always have a process or a system in place, and potentially with conflicting priorities and/or perspectives

  • Strong business sense with a keen ability to quickly digest new information

  • Demonstrated ability to influence and partner within a diverse organization to help drive business results

  • Resourceful; finds ways to help clients navigate complex situations where answers are not clear cut; learns from client inquiries to figure where additional training or communications may be needed

  • Excellent analytical skills and the ability to quickly interpret data, identify trends, and recommend solutions

  • Strong Excel skills, including experience using formulas, pivot tables and graphs to organize, assess and present data

  • Solid attention to detail, with the ability to dig into the details to identify and solve problems

  • Independent work style, balancing the need for collaboration with minimal direction

  • Exceptional collaboration skills and ability to effectively work across functions and organization.

  • Independent work style, balancing the need for collaboration with minimal supervision.

  • Demonstrated experience and ability to balance business-partnering skills with employee advocacy.

  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically related to HR business plan implementation.

  • Basic knowledge of employment and labor law

Preferred Qualifications

  • TWDC HR experience or experience working in a large, corporate, matrixed environment

  • Experience and exposure to a variety of HR facets including organization development, employee relations, talent acquisition, learning & development, and compensation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Business, Human Resources Management or related discipline or equivalent work experience


The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $115,300 to $140,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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About ESPN:

Working at ESPN is unlike anything else. That’s because we’re always finding new ways to interact with fans – however and wherever they connect with sports. Every day we’re doing things that no one has done, all in a dynamic culture where we defy odds and continuously outdo ourselves. When you have the latest technology, game-changing ideas and world-class talent on your team, every day is extraordinary.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Operations LLC, which is part of a business we call ESPN.

Disney Streaming Operations LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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