Culture & Engagement Partner

OpenKrill; United States; In loco; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Sonatype, a leader in software supply chain security, seeks a Culture & Engagement Partner to strengthen organizational culture, engagement, and employee experience globally. You'll partner with People leaders, managers, Communications, and Talent Acquisition to design, implement, and scale initiatives that reinforce mission, values, and leadership expectations.

You will build dashboards and executive summaries, monitor engagement indicators, and translate sentiment into actionable guidance for

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years in Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Organization Development, Talent Management, HR Programs, Internal Communications.
• Experience supporting employee engagement surveys, listening programs, action planning, and organizational feedback initiatives.
• Ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations for stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives across global organizations.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and project coordination skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.

Mansioni

• Conduct culture and engagement assessments to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across teams, functions, and regions.
• Gather and analyze employee feedback using surveys, pulse checks, focus groups, eNPS, and listening sessions.
• Translate sentiment into actionable recommendations for leaders and People stakeholders.
• Build dashboards, reports, and executive summaries to support data-informed decisions.
• Monitor engagement and employee experience indicators to identify morale and leadership issues.
• Partner with leaders to design and scale culture, engagement, and employee experience programs.
• Coordinate change management activities including communications and adoption efforts.

Conoscenze

Culture analysis

Employee engagement

Data privacy

Dashboards

Stakeholder collaboration

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company. We provide the world's best end-to-end software supply chain security solution, combining the only proactive protection against malicious open source, the only enterprise-grade SBOM management, and the leading open source dependency management platform. This empowers enterprises to create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale.

As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central, the world's largest repository of Java open-source software, we are software pioneers, and our open-source expertise is unmatched. We empower innovation with an unparalleled commitment to build faster, safer software and harness AI and data intelligence to mitigate risk, maximize efficiencies, and drive powerful software development.

More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype to optimize their software supply chains.

The Culture & Engagement Partner plays a critical role in strengthening organizational culture, employee engagement, and employee experience across Sonatype. This role partners closely with People leaders, managers, Communications, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and cross-functional stakeholders to design, implement, and scale initiatives that reinforce Sonatype's mission, values, leadership expectations, and ways of working.

Culture Analysis, Diagnostics & Employee Insights

• Conduct organizational culture and engagement assessments to identify trends, strengths, risks, and opportunities across teams, functions, and regions.
• Gather and analyze employee feedback using engagement surveys, pulse surveys, listening sessions, focus groups, eNPS data, and continuous listening methodologies.
• Ensure reporting strictly adheres to global employee data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) and maintain employee anonymity/trust.
• Translate employee sentiment and workforce insights into actionable recommendations for leaders, managers, and People stakeholders.
• Build dashboards, reports, executive summaries, and presentations that support data-informed decision-making and action planning.
• Monitor engagement, retention, and employee experience indicators to proactively identify morale, leadership, communication, or organizational effectiveness concerns.
• Leverage evidence-based approaches and industry best practices to assess organizational readiness for change, culture initiatives, and transformation programs.

Culture, Engagement & Employee Experience Programs

• Support the development, execution, and continuous improvement of culture and engagement initiatives aligned to Sonatype's mission, values, business priorities, and employee experience strategy.
• Coordinate enterprise and function-level engagement initiatives that strengthen employee connection, inclusion, collaboration, accountability, and trust.
• Partner with leaders and People stakeholders to translate company-wide engagement strategies into targeted business-level and regional action plans.
• Support initiatives that improve employee experience across key moments in the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, manager enablement, learning and development, recognition, and offboarding.
• Help reinforce organizational priorities and desired ways of working through community and culture campaigns, communication initiatives, and employee engagement activities.
• Help reinforce organizational priorities and desired ways of working through community and culture campaigns, communication initiatives, and employee engagement activities.
• Facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned, and success stories across teams and regions to strengthen organizational alignment and consistency.

Change Management, Communications & Organizational Enablement

• Support organizational change initiatives by coordinating communication plans, stakeholder engagement activities, rollout support, and adoption efforts.
• Partner with Communications and HR stakeholders to strengthen employee communication channels, engagement campaigns, and leadership messaging.
• Assist in developing manager-facing guidance, toolkits, resources, and enablement materials that improve manager effectiveness and consistency.
• Support initiatives that help employees understand and adopt organizational priorities, performance expectations, and operational changes.
• Contribute to organizational capability-building initiatives focused on leadership effectiveness, inclusive workplace practices, employee engagement, and team effectiveness.
• Ensure communications and engagement initiatives are aligned with Sonatype's evolving HR operating model and organizational transformation priorities.

Stakeholder Partnership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with People Operations, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Communications, Inclusion & Belonging, and business leaders to support coordinated employee experience initiatives.
• Collaborate with managers and People Partners to identify engagement gaps, workforce trends, organizational risks, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support global and regional HR initiatives while balancing enterprise consistency with local employee experience needs.
• Provide practical recommendations and insight to stakeholders based on employee feedback, participation metrics, workforce trends, and organizational data.
• Help improve coordination and alignment between culture strategy, engagement initiatives, manager enablement, and operational execution across the People organization.

Continuous Improvement & Culture Stewardship

• Research and apply emerging trends, methodologies, and best practices related to employee engagement, organizational culture, employee experience, and organizational development.
• Contribute ideas and recommendations that improve employee engagement programs, communication effectiveness, manager capability, and workplace culture initiatives.
• Promote a workplace culture grounded in respect, inclusion, accountability, collaboration, transparency, and trust.
• Model strong judgment, analytical thinking, and solution-oriented problem solving in support of organizational and employee experience goals.
• Deliver work that includes clear recommendations, rationale, business impact considerations, and actionable next steps rather than administrative execution alone.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, Communications, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Employee Engagement, Employee Experience, Organization Development, Talent Management, HR Programs, Internal Communications.
• Experience supporting employee engagement surveys, employee listening programs, action planning, and organizational feedback initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze employee insights and translate findings into actionable recommendations and stakeholder guidance.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives and working effectively across distributed or global organizations.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, project coordination, and organizational skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational exec