Program Manager, Global Workforce Strategy (Contract)

About the role

Function Health is expanding globally—with active hiring in LATAM, momentum in the UK, and plans for further international growth—and is building a scalable, compliant, and optimized global operating model. We are seeking a contractor to lead the global workforce strategy workstream. In this hands-on delivery role, you will serve as the project manager and strategic connective tissue across People, Legal, Finance, Tax, and business leadership. You will build comprehensive cost-benefit analyses, drive key strategic decisions to closure, and establish a clear, repeatable framework that empowers the team to scale sustainably. Success means decisions made, guardrails published, and a repeatable playbook in place by the end of the engagement.

Responsibilities

• Own the global workforce strategy workstream end to end—scope, plan, milestones, risks, and status reporting to leadership.
• Build a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis across the international footprint, covering contractor-to-EOR conversions, new EOR implementations, and the threshold at which standing up a legal entity is the better long-term investment.
• Develop a scalable decision framework for choosing between contractor, EOR, and entity models, weighted for cost, compliance risk, speed, candidate experience, and long-term operating complexity.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across People, Legal, Finance, Tax, and business leaders—surfacing tradeoffs, forcing open questions, and getting to decisions rather than another meeting.
• Support UK expansion, including evaluation and potential entity creation, on a timeline that lands before year-end.
• Partner with engineering leadership on LATAM hiring plans, giving them the data and framework to evaluate tradeoffs before commitments are made.
• Define clear guardrails and operating principles for contractor engagements, including eligibility for employee programs, benefits, and equity.
• Establish lightweight governance: intake process, decision rights, escalation path, and turnaround expectations so requests stop being handled reactively.
• Document everything and run a clean handoff—playbooks, templates, and decision logs that outlast the engagement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in program or project management with direct ownership of international workforce, global mobility and expansion, or global HR operations initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with EOR platforms and implementations, contractor engagement models, and the economics and mechanics of establishing legal entities in a new market.
• Working knowledge of the risk landscape: worker classification, permanent establishment, payroll and employment tax, work authorization, benefits, and statutory requirements.
• Direct experience working with LATAM and the UK markets.
• Strong financial modeling instincts; able to build a defensible fully-loaded cost comparison across models and markets and explain it to a CFO.
• Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across senior stakeholders without formal authority.
• Crisp written communication; comfortable writing the exec memo and the operating doc with equal quality.
• Ability to move fast in an ambiguous, high-growth environment and bring structure without adding bureaucracy.

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry.
• Prior work at a company scaling from first international hires to a multi-entity footprint.
• Familiarity with equity administration across contractor and EOR populations.