VP Culture & Engagement
About the role
The VP, Culture & Engagement plays a critical role in building and sustaining a strong, client-centric culture at LPL Financial. This role involves translating employee and organizational insights into clear, enterprise-wide priorities and leading the execution of these initiatives across the business to drive alignment and impact.
Responsibilities
Culture, Engagement & Employee Listening: Act as a strategic advisor and execution leader, translating insights into actionable plans and driving outcomes, and employee-centric programs that elevate the employee experience and support sustained growth.
Employee Listening: Execute and evolve the firm's employee listening ecosystem, including annual engagement surveys, pulse feedback, and qualitative listening forums, building a continuous "listening and learning" muscle that tracks progress over time.
Insight Synthesis: Translate employee feedback, survey results, and qualitative insights into clear enterprise and business-level priorities and action plans with clearly defined owners, timelines, and execution checkpoints.
AI-Enabled Tools: Leverage AI-enabled tools and advanced analytics to enhance employee listening, insight synthesis, and storytelling, accelerating feedback translation into action while maintaining trust, transparency, and responsible use.
Strategic Partnership & Influence: Partner with People Business Partners and business leaders to interpret engagement insights and co-create aligned, pragmatic action plans, managing those action plans through structured project planning and follow-through.
Operational & Execution Focus: Create and execute on project plans related to culture and engagement initiatives, develop structured frameworks, and own the development of executive-ready materials.
Communication Plans: Develop and act on culture and engagement communication plans that are on-brand, aligned to enterprise priorities, and designed to support leader and manager activation.
Requirements
Leadership experience across disciplines such as human resources, organizational effectiveness, or program management.
Experience designing, administering, and operationalizing employee listening strategies (e.g., surveys, employee groups, external learning, data/org health measures).
Experience consulting with People Business Partners and senior business leaders.
Experience in planning and execution of employee experience programs and monitoring outcomes.
Proven ability to build strong relationships and influence outcomes through partnership rather than authority.
Preferences
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a strong emphasis on executive presentations and storytelling.
Proven experience developing leader-facing decks, frameworks, and toolkits that drive understanding and action.
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across matrixed teams.
Comfort operating in a deadline-driven, high-visibility, enterprise environment.
Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining enterprise focus.
Continuous improvement mindset, evolving engagement approaches as business and organizational needs change.
Execution-oriented and disciplined, with a strong bias toward fact-based decision making and evaluating outcomes to inform future actions.
Pay Range
$126,587.00 - $210,944.00
Benefits
LPL offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package, including a competitive base salary, 401(k) matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. For further information about LPL, please visit www.lpl.com.
Company Overview
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest-growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools, and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
Application Instructions
To apply, please log in or create an account at https://apply.lplfinancial.com. Principals only. EOE. Information on Interviews: LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.