Jane Savage

Vice President for Human Resources
Jane Savage was named Vice President for Human Resources effective September 22, 2025. She is responsible for initiatives to advance human resources services and support the Stony Brook campus community. Her key responsibilities include developing recruitment, onboarding and engagement practices.

Savage also implements the HR NOW Transformation Effort, a collaborative campus initiative aimed at enhancing the employee experience and positioning Stony Brook for future success through improved HR systems and practices. Additionally, she ensures that Stony Brook’s total rewards program, including compensation and benefits, is competitive.

Savage is tasked with advancing efficient and responsive talent acquisition operations by leveraging a new business partner service delivery model to recruit and retain top talent and fully implement a strategic and proactive talent acquisition model to enhance the university’s recruiting capabilities.

Savage came to Stony Brook from Yale University, where she served as associate vice president for organizational effectiveness, learning and strategic initiatives in Human Resources. She led the implementation of Workday Learning, fostered constructive relationships with unions, led labor relations and bargaining and helped institute new labor-management practices.

Her career also includes experience in organization development consulting on union-management cooperation and other change initiatives with the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University and also at Workplace Systems, Inc., where she advised leaders of Fortune 500 manufacturing locations to implement workplace improvements such as work redesign, process improvement and union-management cooperation.

Savage holds a master’s degree in public & private management from Yale University’s School of Management and a bachelor’s of science degree in engineering from The Ohio State University.

CONTACT:
Nicole Bialy
Executive Assistant
Phone: 631.632.6151
390 Administration Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY 11794-0751