People Program Manager (PMO)

People Program Manager (PMO)

As a People Program Manager (PMO), you will partner with the People Team, IT, and business leaders to lead global HR projects across the employee lifecycle. You will be the connection point between the People Team and our partners to grow and transform our HR offerings, with a focus on experience and scalability. In parallel, you will lead best practices within the HR and project management space, and serve as a thought partner to Senior Leadership. You will report to the Sr. Manager, People PMO.

The impact you will have:

• Project manage a variety of strategic HR projects by gathering requirements, supporting strategy design, developing project plans, and guiding multiple teams to ensure deliverables are met
• Take an ambiguous problem and define problem statements, critical outcomes, and activities needed
• Create a shared understanding across multiple groups to drive decisions and commitments
• Establish clear performance benchmarks and KPIs to track project success against functional priorities
• Lead executive communications, thought partnership, and reporting to ensure transparency and alignment on project progress, risk, and outcomes
• Partner with cross-functional teams to implement process builds or improvements, automation, technical implementations, and/or change management
• Serve as a subject matter expert on project management best practices and be a thought partner in growing the PMO function

What we look for:

• 6+ years of experience leading cross-functional projects or programs with demonstrated success in process optimization, automation, and/or strategic change management
• Expertise leading projects using hybrid or agile approaches and project management tools like Asana
• Experience communicating complex ideas and decisions to Director+ stakeholders
• Familiarity with designing and leading creative ways to structure and break down problems for teams
• Consultative skills, ability to conduct deep requirements gathering and solve the root cause
• Proven ability to design and improve complex business processes or technology changes through detailed analysis, process mapping, and execution

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

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