Senior People Programs Lead

Role Summary

We’re looking for a strategic, operator-minded Talent Programs leader to join the People team at Replit. This role will report to the Head of People Business Partners & Talent Programs and operate as a senior individual contributor responsible for building, running, and evolving the company’s core talent programs and operating rhythms.

About the role

This role blends program strategy, operational excellence, and hands-on building. You will drive company-wide talent programs including performance cycles, calibrations, onboarding, manager forums, and enablement initiatives while creating scalable content, frameworks, and processes that improve consistency and execution across the business.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the company’s core People operating rhythms and talent programs, including performance cycles, calibrations, manager enablement, onboarding, listening systems and recurring People operating cadences.
• Drive end-to-end program management for performance and talent cycles, including timelines, milestones, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and operational follow-through.
• Partner cross-functionally with PBPs, Finance, Recruiting, and business leaders to ensure talent programs are aligned, scalable, and operationally effective.
• Lead calibration operations and coordination across the company, helping drive consistency, alignment, fairness, and high performance standards.
• Own and evolve Manager Forum as a core company operating ritual, including roadmap development, agenda setting, recurring themes, leadership enablement, and feedback loops into broader People strategy.
• Build scalable manager enablement materials and program content, including performance review guides, calibration prep materials, compensation conversation talk tracks, onboarding content, promotion and leveling documentation, and internal operating playbooks.
• Create lightweight but high-impact frameworks, templates, and repeatable processes that improve consistency, execution, and manager effectiveness across the organization.
• Own onboarding program operations and experience including cohort planning, scheduling, executive coordination, run-of-show management, and continuous program iteration.
• Gather and analyze feedback from new hires, managers, and stakeholders to continuously improve onboarding and talent program effectiveness.
• Leverage AI and automation to identify opportunities and improve scalability, speed, quality, and consistency across People workflows, manager support, and operational processes.
• Build or experiment with internal People tools, automations, agents, and AI-assisted workflows using Replit and other technologies.
• Identify organizational and operational friction points across the People team and drive improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and scalability.

Required skills and experience

• 8+ years of experience across Talent Management, Talent Programs, HRBP, People Operations, Organizational Development, or related People functions.
• Experience running complex, cross-functional talent programs at scale.
• Strong operator mindset with exceptional program management skills.
• Proven ability to build content, frameworks, and scalable processes.
• Strong written communication and executive-facing communication skills.
• Ability to influence without authority and work effectively across senior stakeholders.
• High ownership and bias toward action.
• Excitement around AI, automation, and rethinking how People teams operate.
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, high-growth environments with ambiguity.
• Strong systems thinking and continuous improvement mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience building workflows, automations, or lightweight internal tools.
• Familiarity with compensation cycles, calibration processes, and manager enablement.
• Experience using AI tools to improve operational efficiency or employee experience.

Tools + Tech Stack for this role

• HRIS / People Systems: Rippling, Workday
• Performance & Feedback, Listening Systems: Lattice
• Collaboration & Communication: Slack, Google Workspace, Notion, Zoom