Culture Champion & Employee Experience Lead

C4-Therapeutics-Inc; Watertown (MA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

C4 Therapeutics in Watertown, MA is seeking an Employee Experience Manager to shape how it feels to work at the company, focusing on onboarding, offboarding, engagement, workplace experience, and culture.

As a culture champion, you will collaborate with HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, Facilities, and Communications to deliver high-touch programs that foster belonging and collaboration in a mission-driven, science-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four years of progressive experience in HR, Employee Experience, Talent Acquisition operations, or a related function.
• Experience designing and scaling onboarding, offboarding, engagement, culture, or employee lifecycle programs.
• Proven ability to build trust, partner cross-functionally, and influence leaders at all levels with excellent project management, communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, and ability to handle confidential or sensitive information appropriately.

Responsibilities

• Lead employee experience programs that welcome, inform, connect, and support employees at C4T.
• Serve as a culture champion and ambassador for C4T's values, helping foster connection, belonging, engagement, and shared purpose.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and hiring teams to support candidate scheduling, onsite interview coordination and day of logistics, helping to foster a well-organized candidate experience.
• Own and continuously improve onboarding, including pre-boarding, orientation, manager readiness, first-day experience, early touchpoints, and integration into C4T's culture.
• Partner cross-functionally with HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, Facilities, Communications, managers, and leaders to deliver seamless employee lifecycle experiences.
• Own the annual engagement survey process, including preparation, launch, communications, results reporting, insights synthesis, and follow-up action planning.
• Use employee feedback, engagement survey insights, exit themes, and lifecycle data to identify opportunities to strengthen the employee experience and culture.
• Partner with HR business partners to support Insights Discovery administration for new employees, including coordinating assessments, facilitating meaningful debriefs, and developing ongoing training opportunities that help employees and teams apply Insights to improve communication, collaboration, and team effectiveness.
• Support planning of employee events, culture initiatives, community engagement activities, and workplace programming that bring employees together and celebrate key moments.
• Partner with the Head of Total Rewards to support the evolution and execution of C4T's wellness programming, including employee communications and coordination of related events and initiatives.
• Lead and support employee experience communications that are clear, warm, timely, and aligned with C4T's voice and values.
• Oversee employee experience operations, including swag, recognition, milestone programs, and other thoughtful touchpoints across the employee journey.

Skills

Progressive HR experience

Onboarding/offboarding programs

Cross-functional collaboration

Discretion with sensitive information

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

ADP or similar HR systems

Job description

C4 Therapeutics in Watertown, MA is seeking an Employee Experience Manager to shape how it feels to work at the company, focusing on onboarding, offboarding, engagement, workplace experience, and culture.

As a culture champion, you will collaborate with HR, Talent Acquisition, IT, Facilities, and Communications to deliver high-touch programs that foster belonging and collaboration in a mission-driven, science-focused environment.