Talent and People Programs Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the administration of enterprise talent programs, encompassing career pathing, succession planning, leadership development initiatives, and other strategic people initiatives.

• Collaborate with the Operations team to ensure development programs align with company objectives.

• Assess and enhance enterprise people processes utilizing data, feedback, and industry best practices.

• Manage and administer the annual and mid-year performance management cycles.

• Oversee performance review timelines, communications, system administration, reporting, and completion tracking.

• Work alongside leaders to enhance the performance management process and improve employee experience.

• Create reporting and analytics on organizational performance trends.

• Facilitate calibration sessions and succession-planning discussions with leadership, including evaluating bench strength for key roles.

• Administer and uphold the compensation philosophy and governance framework.

• Collaborate with executive leadership on job architecture, job leveling, salary structures, bonus tiers, and market pricing.

• Assist in annual compensation planning and organizational design initiatives.

• Develop dashboards, reporting, and metrics regarding organizational people health.

• Analyze trends in engagement, performance, compensation, and talent programs.

• Present insights and recommendations to executive leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of HR experience with direct ownership or administration of enterprise people programs.

• Experience managing an annual or mid-year performance management cycle from start to finish, including timelines, system administration, communications, and reporting.

• Background in supporting compensation governance, such as job architecture, leveling, salary structures, or market benchmarking, or close collaboration with a Total Rewards/Compensation function.

• Proven experience in creating reports or dashboards that highlight organizational trends for leadership audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally, including direct engagement with executive leadership, to advance programs without formal authority.

• Highly organized with a keen attention to detail and follow-through.

• Comfortable working independently in a remote setting and meeting with leadership across various time zones, occasionally outside of standard business hours.

• Openness and capability to utilize AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency.

• Preferred: Experience with Workday.

• Preferred: Familiarity with project management tools such as Asana, Smartsheet, monday.com, MS Project, or similar.

• Preferred: Experience within a multi-state, multi-unit organization with a significant number of hourly employees.

• Preferred: PMP, CAPM, Agile/Scrum, or compensation (CCP) certification.

• Preferred: Experience at a mid-sized company with 2,000–5,000 employees.

• Willingness to travel up to 10%.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health, vision, dental, long & short-term disability, and life insurance.

• A startup mentality company with stable funding.

• 401k match.

• Pet care discounts.

• Flexible time off.

• Opportunities for career growth within a network of like-minded professionals.

• Bonus potential up to 10%.