Manager, People Programs
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UpstartFintech lending
Location: United States | Remote, The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.Full-TimeManager
Salary138,000 - 200,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of experience in People or HR programs, employee experience, enterprise program management, organizational change, internal communications, or a related field.
- Required Skills
- Change Management
Requirements
- Bring 6+ years of experience in People or HR programs, employee experience, enterprise program management, organizational change, internal communications, or a related field.
- Have experience leading complex cross-functional programs with multiple workstreams, dependencies, milestones, and stakeholders.
- Have managed at least one enterprise People program, such as performance management, employee listening, AI or technology adoption, change management, or another company-wide employee initiative.
- Translate broad direction into integrated workplans, clear ownership, decision points, and coordinated execution.
- Use quantitative and qualitative data to measure program effectiveness and inform practical improvements.
- Deliver clear, concise, executive-ready written and verbal updates and recommendations.
- Influence without formal authority and create accountability across teams, functions, and levels.
- Own both strategic coordination and detailed final-mile execution.
- Preferred: experience supporting performance review cycles, employee listening or engagement surveys, AI adoption, or enterprise change initiatives.
- Preferred: familiarity with employee survey platforms, performance management systems, project-management tools, or modern knowledge and collaboration platforms.
- Preferred: fluency with GenAI tools and interest in helping organizations adopt AI thoughtfully and effectively.
Responsibilities
- Lead planning and delivery of mid-year and year-end performance review cycles, coordinating timelines, systems readiness, communications, stakeholder inputs, launch activities, and dependencies.
- Manage the Pulse program with People Analytics, HRBPs, and senior leaders, coordinating survey readiness, launch, response tracking, results distribution, action-planning logistics, and follow-through.
- Coordinate AI Acceleration workstreams, milestones, decision points, and measurable progress based on executive direction.
- Partner with Internal Communications, Learning and Development, Technology, and the People Team on employee-facing AI adoption, communications, enablement, experimentation, and change management.
- Create integrated program plans and operating rhythms that clarify ownership, surface dependencies and risks, support timely decisions, and coordinate cross-functional partners.
- Improve program systems, playbooks, and processes using employee feedback, program data, and lessons learned.
- Support additional high-priority, nontechnical People programs as capacity and business needs allow.
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