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The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways - from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.
The RoleThe Director of HR, Global Business Partner for Sales at Aspen Technology (AspenTech) is a strategic HR leader and trusted advisor to senior executives, partnering with the Chief Revenue Officer and our global Sales leadership Team to shape the future of our business. You drive organizational growth, elevate workforce capability, and foster a culture of innovation and inclusion across a global footprint. You lead HR strategy, guide complex organizational transformations, and inspire a high-performing HR team to deliver excellence and impact at scale.
The Director of HR, Global Business Partner, is visionary and able to articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods. You find and champion the best creative ideas and actively move them into implementation. This role will report to the VP, Human Resources and based in our Houston, TX (preferred) or Bedford, MA office. AspenTech is a hybrid environment with 4 days in the office and 1 day remote.
Your Impact
- Serve as the global strategic HR Business Partner to the global Sales Leadership Team (Chief Revenue Officer & direct reports), advising on short- and long-term business challenges, including organizational growth, workforce capability, talent needs, and change management.
- Drive transformative organizational change initiatives by translating business strategies into HR and talent priorities while also operationalizing global HR initiatives within the business, ensuring programs, policies, and capabilities are effectively adopted and adapted to local needs.
- Lead HR support for significant organizational changes, including integrations, restructures, organizational design efforts, and role realignments.
- Partner with HR leaders across the global team to ensure alignment on priorities, expectations, and communications while enabling each to execute within its local context.
- Provide direct HR leadership for the Houston, Texas site, while offering matrixed/dotted-line oversight, guidance, and coaching to HR team members globally.
- Foster an inclusive, highly engaged, and collaborative team culture with strong communication norms and alignment across regions.
- Lead global talent and org review using the established frameworks, driving succession planning, performance calibration, and leadership development.
- Partner with leaders to identify high-potential talent and create development experiences that strengthen capability, readiness, and retention across critical roles.
- Support workload planning, talent forecasting, and capability needs in alignment with growth and footprint strategies, ensuring work is optimally placed across domestic and international locations.
- Oversee complex employee relations matters within the Sales organization, ensuring a fair and psychologically safe approach that appropriately balances employee and business needs.
- Coach senior leaders on navigating complex organizational issues.
What You'll Need
- Proven experience in strategic leadership roles supporting matrixed or multi-site organizations.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with senior leaders and influence decision-making.
- Strong expertise in change leadership, organizational development, andemployee relations.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, relationship-building, and coaching skills
- Experience leading or supporting HR teams in a matrixed or global environment.
- Demonstrated capability to shape culture and build high-performing Sales teams.
- Familiarity with international employment considerations (e.g., cultural differences, diverse talent markets, high-level awareness of international labor practices).
- Experience as a strategic HR business partner for a software CRO / Sales leadership team.
- Experience building Sales management capabilities across sales, solutions consulting, customer success, professional services, and revenue operations.
Work Location:
Aspen Technology has a global hybrid workplace for most of our roles. Employees are expected to work in the office 4 days per week and may work remotely 1 day per week, unless the employee has a reasonable accommodation or other approved exception to the hybrid workplace schedule. This leader will be based in our Houston, Texas office.
Work Authorization
AspenTech will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire. #LI-KF1
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Aspen Technology, Inc.
Feb 10, 2026