About the position
As a Sr Programs Manager within the People Strategy, Programs and Enablement team at Confluent, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing execution efficiency and delivering high-quality programs and projects that facilitate the company's growth. Reporting directly to the Director, you will serve as a centralized resource for the People and Places function, collaborating closely with various centers of excellence and cross-functional stakeholders. Your primary focus will be to drive projects and programs that align with our overall strategy, transformation, and enablement of the business. In this role, you will be instrumental in guiding the transition from high-level strategies to detailed execution, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within scope. You will facilitate collaboration across teams by providing operational discipline, identifying dependencies and risks, and fostering strong relationships through effective communication. Your ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining focus on key initiatives will be crucial to your success. You will lead planning processes by engaging with key stakeholders to transform concepts into actionable deliverables, continuously improving the People organization by sharing project frameworks and best practices. Additionally, you will manage complex, large-scale initiatives from inception to deployment, proactively resolving obstacles and balancing priorities through effective communication. Your role will also involve creating and delivering comprehensive documentation and presentations for complex projects, ensuring clarity and alignment among all stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Drive planning processes by leading conversations with key stakeholders to develop concepts into defined deliverables and ensure execution reliability.
- Continuously improve and scale the People organization by sharing project frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be easily adopted to increase delivery efficiency.
- Lead and manage complex and large scale cross-team, cross-functional initiatives from inception through deployment including defining scope and execution milestones.
- Proactively evaluate and resolve obstacles and balance competing priorities through fluid communication with project stakeholders.
- Engage and energize project teams to achieve aggressive goals.
- Leverage general knowledge to conduct simple analyses and establish performance metrics.
- Solicit and evaluate feedback to determine appropriate actions, solutions and initiatives needed.
- Create and deliver clear and detailed documentation and presentations for complex projects.
Requirements
- Strong project/program management skills and ability to manage competing priorities without losing sight of the most important initiatives.
- Practical working knowledge and experience in human resources with at least one full deployment project leveraging key HR systems (e.g. HCM/HRIS, LMS, ATS, etc.).
- Demonstrable experience in analyzing business needs and aligning them to project execution and KPIs.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills to be able to influentially drive alignment among stakeholders while ensuring execution accountability across teams.
- Deductive problem solving for moderate to highly complex problems; some limited data analysis may be required.
- Proven ability to clearly document and articulate goals, requirements, timelines, resources and risk within and across cross-functional teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with Workday
- Exposure to Tableau
- PMP certification(s)
- Experience working in high growth public company setting
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Annual bonus
- Competitive equity package
