Andrew Byrnes

Senior People Business Partner, World Wide Sales

Autodesk

Jul 2026 - Current (2 months)

Senior People Business Partner - HR4HR, Finance & Legal, Office of the CEO

Personio

Jan 2026 - Jul 2026 (7 months)

Strategic Business Partner to our CPeO, CFO, Chief of Staff and their senior leadership teams. Implementing scalable HR frameworks (Org design fundamentals, Performance Cycle & Talent review process, QBRs, etc) using data and workforce metrics to strengthen organisational health and empower our people leaders. Leveraging AI and automation tools to streamline our people processes, delivering effective and scalable support.

Senior People Business Partner - Go To Market (GTM)

Personio

Feb 2025 - Dec 2025 (11 months)

Strategic People Partner to our Director plus leadership, across International Sales, Customer Success, Revenue Operation and GTM Enablement. Coaching leaders on performance management, employee relations, succession, talent calibration, and org design, ensuring consistency and fairness. Partner with Talent Acquisition to drive talent attraction, retention, and mobility strategies.

People Business Partner - Go To Market (GTM)

Personio

Feb 2024 - Feb 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Business Partner to our VP of International Sales, Director of Revenue Operation, Director of GTM Enablement and their leadership teams to deliver on people strategies and significant organizational resizing & change. Collaborated with People Operations, Legal, Reward, FP&A and Workplace to manage risk and enhance employee experience. Delivered on core HR areas including performance management, compensation, talent management & development, org design, and employee engagement. Balanced diverse stakeholder needs while managing multiple company-wide HR initiatives.

Interim Sr HR Business Partner

Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 (6 months)

In this role I partnered with the EMEA & LATAM Director+ cohort for two of LinkedIn’s core Sales Org’s. These two orgs were in very different growth modes. With the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Org being LinkedIn’s fastest growing sales org and going through hypergrowth, while the Sales Solution Org was in a phase of more controlled development. My achievements and learnings in this role were: Scaling the talent frameworks of an org in hypergrowth: establishing a new talent mapping framework, redesign of career profiles, and reviewing spans of control. Maintaining continued talent investment in an established org: implementing robust succession planning process, redefining performance management structure, and refocusing of the org’s div

HR Business Partner II

Oct 2020 - Jan 2024 (3 years 4 months)

In this role I partnered with 3 organisations: two sales orgs and one full country entity. The sales orgs are LinkedIn Talent Solutions EMEA Mid-Market, and LinkedIn Talent Solutions EMEA SMB. For the full country entity, I am HRBP for LinkedIn’s UAE office in Dubai. Across these areas I partner and support a population of over 70 people leaders in Manager, Sr Manager and Director roles. I would break out my role into the impact areas of: People Leader Coaching Supporting and guiding managers through both rhythm of business events and challenging unforeseen events, i.e., Hybrid Work, Employee Relations cases, Talent Mapping, Macroeconomic Impacts. Data Analysis & Insights Bringing meaningful data to support and define processes and talen

HR Business Partner

Feb 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 9 months)

Supporting LinkedIn Marketing Solutions and the GTM Operations Organisation, I was afforded the fantastic opportunity to partnering with over 60 people leaders on all areas of talent management across both sales and ‘non-sales’ orgs. Marketing Solutions were LinkedIn’s strongest performing and fastest growing sales business, while GTM Operations are ingrained in all areas of the company’s sales functions. I was able to create a unique value for both my stakeholders and myself through leveraging my insights gained by partnering with both the sales and ‘non-sales’ worlds. It allowed me to bring a combination of supportive and challenging perspectives. Leveraging my ability to build and nurture relationships I was in the position to drive an

EMEA Recruitment Operations Manager @ Microsoft

Allegis Global Solutions

Apr 2017 - Feb 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Managing a direct team of 4 and a wider team of 10 based across 4 countries, I am responsible for the oversight and implementation of contingent workforce recruitment strategy and planning for all disciplines across 10 countries. I partner with Microsoft’s EMEA HR and Op’s teams to build and manage a highly impactful contingent workforce population: 1000- 1500 workers I advise on and support both Microsoft, and our partner staffing agencies, on the management and implementation of all impacting employment policies, processes and legislation. With my team, I drive impactful SLA’s/KPI’s to achieve highly competitive Time to Fill metrics across all disciplines for Microsoft’s diverse business requirements

Ireland Program Manager @ Microsoft

Allegis Global Solutions

May 2015 - Mar 2017 (1 year 11 months)

Managing a team of 2, I was responsible for the end-to-end management of the contingent workforce recruitment operations across all disciplines for Microsoft Ireland. With my team, I was responsible for cutting by half the Ireland Time to Fill and maintaining this highly competitve process. I also optimised the Ireland PSL from 16 to 8 competitive and fully engaged staffing agencies. From this sucesses, I owned and drove the re-alignment of our EMEA wide teams to create more efficient and focused workloads; resulting in the ability to manage greater workloads and reduce time to fill I was a core member of the teams that won the renewal of the Microsoft Ireland MSP contract in 2015, and then the Global Microsoft MSP contract in 2017.

Staffing Specialist @ Microsoft

Allegis Global Solutions

Sep 2013 - Apr 2015 (1 year 8 months)

I supported hiring managers during all stages of the talent acquisition and management process including; request qualification & creation, sourcing management, interview scheduling, offer management, on-boarding & off-boarding, management of time and expense submissions/approvals. I was responsible for sourcing across all disciplines.

Recruitment Specialist

Dingcom

Apr 2013 - Sep 2013 (6 months)

As a member of the HR team I was responsible for the end-to-end recruitment for our four office locations; Dublin, Budapest, Dubai and Miami. I managed the qualifying of roles, building of candidate pools, managing interview processes and closing out offers. I was responsible for sourcing across all disciplines.

Recruitment Specialist @ HP

Cpl Integrated Services

Mar 2011 - Apr 2013 (2 years 2 months)

As part of the onsite HR team I was responsible for managing the lifecycle of all open positions for the Multi-lingual Technical Support managed service. I ensured all external recruitment processes and procedures were adhered to while managing the internal talent development and progression. This was high volume recruitment with over 500 fills a year.

Junior Consultant

Noel Recruitment

Oct 2010 - Mar 2011 (6 months)

• Responsible for Office & Secretarial Temp Desk • Sourcing C.V.s • Weekly Payroll for Temp Staff • Sales Calls & Client Meetings • Pre-screening Candidates • Organising & Conducting candidate interviews • Constructing and posting job adverts • Preparing C.V.’s • Reference checking

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