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Sephora


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 206380 - 230660
Posted: 23 September 2026 (5 days ago)
Application Deadline: 21 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job ID:296406
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St 20th Floor San Francisco CA 94105 United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Human Resources
Work Location: Hybrid - San Francisco CA

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Your Role at Sephora
Ready for a career glow up The Head of Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation reports to the SVP Talent and serves as a senior enterprise leader responsible for shaping how Sephora North America designs work aligns decision-making and enables transformation at scale. This role leads the organizational effectiveness agenda across the enterprise by integrating organization design operating model discipline change leadership workforce management governance and AI-enabled ways of working.
As a strategic partner to Talent and business leadership this role translates enterprise strategy into scalable organizational solutions that strengthen accountability improve executional clarity increase organizational agility and enable sustainable business performance. This role will establish the frameworks governance and transformation capabilities needed to ensure organizational investments structural decisions and new ways of working are aligned to business priorities and adopted effectively across the organization.
This leader operates at both strategic and executional levelsadvising senior leaders on complex organizational issues while building repeatable enterprise practices that improve how work gets done across functions markets and operating environments.
What Youll Do
Organizational Design
  • Lead organizational design efforts that improve how work is structured governed and executed across teams and functions.
  • Assess and design operating models organizational structures spans and layers role clarity decision rights and organizational efficiency opportunities.
  • Partner with Talent and business leaders to translate strategic priorities into practical organization design solutions and implementation plans.
  • Develop scalable tools frameworks and standards that enable consistent organization design practices across the enterprise.
Change & Transformation
  • Build and embed enterprise change management approaches that support transformation planning leadership readiness stakeholder alignment adoption and sustainment.
  • Partner with leaders to develop change strategies communication plans training approaches and adoption measures.
  • Support enterprise transformation initiatives by identifying impacts governance needs implementation risks and success measures.
  • Enable leaders and teams to successfully adopt new ways of working through practical tools resources and reinforcement strategies.
AI-Enabled Ways of Working & Adoption
  • Lead the people side of AI-enabled transformation helping leaders and teams understand adopt and sustain new ways of working.
  • Partner across Talent HR Technology Operational Excellence and business functions to evaluate how AI may impact work roles skills and decision-making.
  • Develop change and adoption strategies that support responsible experimentation learning and organizational readiness.
  • Identify adoption risks capability gaps and opportunities to improve employee experience and business outcomes through AI-enabled work.
Workforce Management Governance
  • Establish enterprise standards governance routines and decision-making frameworks for workforce management.
  • Partner with Retail Distribution Centers Canada Payroll HR Technology Finance and Operations leaders to improve alignment and accountability.
  • Clarify workforce management decision rights prioritization processes and escalation paths across key stakeholders.
  • Ensure workforce management practices support broader organizational effectiveness and transformation priorities.
Enterprise Partnership & Strategic Advisory
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives on organizational effectiveness operating model evolution and transformation priorities.
  • Connect Talent strategy to business execution by identifying opportunities to improve organizational performance governance and change readiness.
  • Assess complex organizational challenges evaluate trade-offs and recommend solutions that drive business results.
  • Monitor emerging trends and organizational insights to inform future workforce and transformation strategies.
What Youll Bring
  • 12 years of experience in organizational effectiveness organization design change management HR transformation workforce management or business transformation.
  • Expertise in operating model design organizational structures governance frameworks decision rights and workforce planning.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex enterprise-wide transformation initiatives in matrixed organizations.
  • Experience influencing and partnering with senior leaders across HR Operations Finance Technology and business functions.
  • Strong change leadership skills with experience driving adoption stakeholder engagement and sustained outcomes.
  • Exceptional strategic thinking problem-solving communication and consulting capabilities.
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity build alignment and translate complex challenges into practical solutions.
  • Bachelors degree in Human Resources Organizational Development Industrial/Organizational Psychology Business Administration or a related field. Advanced certifications in change management organizational design or transformation are a plus

What Youll Get:

The annual base salary range for this position is $206380.00- $230660.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors which may include as applicable the applicants qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they willperform the employed in this position may also be eligible to earn job will be posted for a minimum offivedays.

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Some benefits have eligibility requirements and may depend on job classification and length of employment.

  • Health.Choose a healthcare plan to fit you and your familys needs withmedicaldental and vision also fully covers our employees disability and life insurance.
  • Wealth.We offer a competitive 401k with4%match as well as FSA and HSA programs. We also offer a Student Debt Retirement plan where your student loan paymentsqualifyto earn the 401k match from Sephora.
  • Balance.Youll beempoweredto find the perfect blend of work/life balance thatactuallyworks for youwithPTO flexibilityprotectedleave and more.
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Sephora values a diverse andinclusiveworkplaceand considers allapplicants withoutregard to sex pregnancy race color national origin gender (including gender identity and gender expression) age religion sexual orientation military/veteran status disability or any other is committed to providing reasonable accommodationtaapplicantswith disabilities or other medical conditions.

Sephora will consider all qualified applicants including those witharrest and conviction recordsin a manner consistent with the requirements of allapplicable laws including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the New York City Fair Chance Act.

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