HR Business Operations / Program Manager

About the role

The HR Program Manager is a partner to the HR leader, helping drive alignment, execution, and operating discipline across the HR organization. This role is designed to be a force multiplier, ensuring that strategic HR priorities are translated into clear plans, coordinated actions, measurable outcomes, and sustained momentum across the HRBP team and key functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Connect work across HRBPs, HR Centers of Excellence, business partners, and key stakeholders.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, dependencies, and risks across HR initiatives.
• Translate strategic direction into clear actions, owners, timelines, and deliverables.
• Drive follow-through on key leadership decisions and ensure progress does not stall.
• Help create standard work, project structures, and execution mechanisms that improve consistency across the HR team.
• Synthesize inputs across multiple leaders and teams into clear themes, recommendations, and action plans.
• Build and maintain the cadence for HR leadership meetings, HRBP syncs, COE connections, monthly business reviews, quarterly business reviews, and other key operating forums.
• Prepare agendas, pre-read materials, briefing documents, and follow-up actions.
• Ensure meetings are structured around decisions, risks, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with HR leaders and HRBPs to gather inputs, validate content, and prepare high-quality materials.
• Build project plans, timelines, milestone trackers, and governance routines.
• Cover stakeholder input across HRBPs, COEs, business leaders, and enabling functions.
• Schedule and facilitate project checkpoints, working sessions, and phase-gate reviews.
• Synthesize updates, insights, and decision points for HR leadership.
• Ensure projects move from concept to execution with clear ownership, deliverables, and outcomes.
• Support initiatives related to workforce strategy, organizational design, talent planning, performance management, employee relations, operating model effectiveness, and HR transformation.
• Partner with HRBPs and analytics partners to identify relevant metrics, dashboards, and review materials.
• Support preparation of monthly and quarterly business reviews.
• Help convert data into insights, risks, actions, and leadership recommendations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in HR, talent management, program management, project management, organizational effectiveness, or a related function.
• Experience supporting senior leaders or leadership teams in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear executive-ready materials.
• Strong project management, stakeholder management, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, create structure, and drive clarity across multiple priorities.
• Experience building operating rhythms, dashboards, business reviews, or leadership governance routines.

Qualifications

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in a Chief of Staff, HR Program Manager, HR Business Operations, HR Strategy, or HR Transformation role.
• Experience supporting HRBP teams or working closely with HR Centers of Excellence.
• Experience in a manufacturing, operations, aerospace, technology, or high-growth environment.
• Strong understanding of HR processes such as workforce planning, talent reviews, performance management, employee relations, organizational design, and leadership development.
• Experience preparing materials for senior executives, including business reviews, decision documents, and strategic updates.
• Experience using data and metrics to support business decisions and organizational insights.
• Project management certification or formal program management experience is a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD

Skills

N/A

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.