Principal, Talent Management

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +10 more states.

📋 Description

• Lead the complete design process and ongoing enhancement of integrated workforce and talent ecosystems.

• Link Strategic Workforce Planning, skills, talent assessments, succession planning, and career development to enhance workforce and talent decision-making.

• Convert workforce and talent insights into scalable processes, decision-making frameworks, governance structures, user experiences, and enabling requirements.

• Design and refine Strategic Workforce Planning processes, user experiences, scenario-planning methodologies, and frameworks for workforce investment decisions.

• Design and consistently enhance processes for talent reviews, calibrations, succession planning, critical-role identification, readiness assessments, and succession coverage.

• Transform succession insights into visibility of enterprise risks.

• Integrate skills throughout workforce planning and talent experiences, including career advancement, internal mobility, and employee development.

• Create systems for career exploration, development discussions, internal opportunities, personalized learning pathways, development plans, opportunity marketplaces, gigs, and internal networking capabilities.

• Identify, monitor, and mobilize enterprise talent across various business units.

• Employ user-centered design methodologies to address business, employee, leader, and HR needs.

• Collaborate with HR Engineering, HR Technology, Business Finance, Strategic Workforce Planning, Talent, Technology, Talent Analytics, HR Business Partners, and business leadership.

• Define business requirements, set priorities, outline data needs, establish reporting expectations, governance frameworks, adoption strategies, and resource allocations.

• Establish governance structures, ownership responsibilities, decision rights, operational rhythms, exception management processes, success metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Facilitate cross-functional discovery and decision-making, provide guidance to senior stakeholders, and communicate complex concepts related to workforce and talent.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Finance, Strategy, Design, or a related discipline is required.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Strategic Workforce Planning, workforce strategy, talent management, succession planning, career development, skills strategy, organizational effectiveness, talent management experience design, HR or Talent consulting, or related fields.

• Extensive experience in Strategic Workforce Planning, including scenario planning, talent demand and supply analysis, workforce economics, skills-based planning, and labor investment decision-making.

• Proven experience in integrating talent reviews, succession planning, career development, and skills-based talent practices with workforce data and planning insights.

• Demonstrated ability to design and enhance enterprise talent, workforce, organizational effectiveness, or planning solutions that are practical, scalable, user-focused, and aligned with business outcomes.

• Experience in translating business and user needs into requirements, use cases, process designs, governance models, data and reporting needs, adoption strategies, and technology-enabled solutions.

• Proven experience in collaborating with Talent, Finance, Technology, HR Business Partners, Talent Analytics, HR Technology, and business stakeholder groups.

• Experience in technology-enabled planning or talent environments is preferred.

• Familiarity with Strategic Workforce Planning platforms and HRIS technology is advantageous but not mandatory.

• Hands-on experience with system configuration is not required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.