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About the Role
The Director of People Operations, HRIS & Analytics is responsible for leading the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of the company people operations infrastructure, core HR technology systems, and data-driven workforce strategies. This role oversees human resources operations, people systems, advanced workforce analytics, employee data compliance, governance, onboarding, change management, and automated administrative processes that enable an exceptional employee experience and support distributed organizational growth. The Director serves as a strategic, technical partner with People Team and other business leaders by leveraging quantitative data, enterprise technology, and process excellence to improve operational effectiveness, strengthen remote culture, and provide actionable workforce insights that drive corporate business decisions. This role establishes enterprise frameworks and data governance for the employee experience, partners with People Team leaders to ensure consistent multi-state execution, and advises senior leadership on complex organizational, technical, and analytical challenges. This is a Remote/Work from Home position reporting to the Vice President of People.
Responsibilities
- Leads People Operations across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employee transactions, workforce administration, and employee records.
- Develops and optimizes scalable operational frameworks, service standards, policies, procedures, and workflows that support a growing multi-state workforce.
- Drives operational excellence by leveraging process improvement, automation, integrations, and AI capabilities to increase efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance the employee and manager experience.
- Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws through effective governance, documentation, operational controls, and record management.
- Owns the strategy, governance, optimization, and roadmap for the HRIS and People technology ecosystem, ensuring alignment with business and People priorities.
- Oversee HR technology operations, including system configuration, security, workflows, integrations, reporting, testing, upgrades, vendor management, and partnership with IT.
- Leads the evaluation, implementation, and enhancement of People technologies, automation, AI capabilities, and digital solutions that improve operational effectiveness and employee experience.
- Establishes data governance standards that ensure the accuracy, integrity, security, compliance, and effective use of People data across all systems.
- Leads HR technology projects and system enhancements while designing scalable digital employee lifecycle experiences in partnership with People COE leaders to strengthen engagement, retention, and organizational culture.
- Develops executive dashboards, workforce analytics, and actionable insights that inform strategic decisions, measure program effectiveness, identify workforce trends and flight risks, and drive continuous improvement.
- Leads the development and delivery of workforce metrics, executive dashboards, scorecards, and analytical reporting.
- Translates workforce data into actionable insights that support business planning, talent strategies, organizational effectiveness, and decision-making.
- Identifies trends and opportunities related to workforce demographics, turnover, employee lifecycle experiences, and operational effectiveness.
- Establishes reporting standards and data quality controls to ensure reliable, accurate, and meaningful analytics.
- Partners with senior leaders and People Business Partner team to provide strategic workforce analysis and recommendations.
- Lead the enterprise employee experience strategy, focusing on virtual onboarding/offboarding, automated engagement surveys, and digital recognition frameworks.
- Measure system and program effectiveness through employee feedback to drive continuous cycle improvements.
- Champions continuous improvement efforts across People Operations, HRIS, and employee administration functions.
- Identifies opportunities to automate processes, streamline workflows, and reduce administrative burden through technology and process redesign.
- Leads system implementations, enhancements, and change management initiatives through planning, testing, communication, training, and adoption strategies.
- Develops tools, resources, and training materials that support effective utilization of People systems and processes.
- Lead, in collaboration with People COE Leaders, technical and People-related change management initiatives by designing platform adoption strategies, communication frameworks, governance, and leader enablement tools.
- Partner closely with People Business Partners and Centers of Excellence to ensure standard, compliant execution of programs, policies, and technical tools.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual tasks, simplify system workflows, and enhance the digital employee and manager self-service experience.
- Lead, coach, and develop the HRIS and People Administration teams, fostering a culture of customer service, data integrity, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Establish team priorities, manage resources, budgets, vendor relationships, and implementation roadmaps to ensure successful execution of operational and strategic objectives.
- Partner with People leadership, IT, Finance, Payroll, Legal, Compliance, and business leaders to align People Operations, HR technology, workforce analytics, and digital capabilities with organizational priorities.
- Serve as the functional expert for People Operations, HR systems, workforce analytics, data governance, and technology-enabled process improvement.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that enhance the employee lifecycle, strengthen engagement and organizational culture, and drive scalable business outcomes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a relevant field.
- Master’s degree (MBA) or related field is a plus.
- SHRM-SCP, SPHR, HRIS certification, People Analytics, PMP, Prosci, or other relevant professional credentials highly preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience with substantial leadership responsibility directly spanning HR operations, HRIS administration, and people analytics.
- 5+ years of experience leading, structuring, and developing high-performing operations or systems teams.