Head of People Experience & Engagement

ATOMS Careers page; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 182,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

401(k)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays

Job summary

Atoms seeks a senior leader to shape and own the global Employee Experience function from San Francisco. You will build onboarding, engagement, internal communications, and learning programs, guiding cross-functional teams and crafting the employee journey.

You’ll lead a small team, own change communications for org initiatives, and partner with HR to drive a compelling people agenda. This onsite role emphasizes hands-on leadership and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in employee experience, internal communications or related people programs, including 3+ years managing a team.
• Built programs from scratch with a lean team; comfortable doing work and setting strategy.
• Excellent writer who has owned internal communications for a company, including exec and change comms.
• Onboarding and engagement for in-person teams across multiple offices; global experience a plus.
• High standards, fast, hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Build the function: set strategy/roadmap across onboarding, engagement, internal comms and learning.
• Own the new hire experience, tailored by business unit, with 90-day toolkit.
• Lead engagement and events: all-hands, anniversary events, Q&As, monthly in-person events, content.
• Set the internal voice: communications strategy for announcements, all-hands, performance reviews, promotions.
• Lead change communications for organizational changes and integration of acquired teams.
• Launch learning: develop learning programs, starting with frontline managers.
• Measure what works: use engagement/onboarding/attrition data to drive investment and show impact.
• Build and lead a small team across onboarding, engagement, communications and learning.

Skills

Employee experience

Internal communications

Team management

Excellent writing

Global experience

Job description

Atoms seeks a senior leader to shape and own the global Employee Experience function from San Francisco. You will build onboarding, engagement, internal communications, and learning programs, guiding cross-functional teams and crafting the employee journey.

You’ll lead a small team, own change communications for org initiatives, and partner with HR to drive a compelling people agenda. This onsite role emphasizes hands-on leadership and measurable impact.