People Analytics Enablement Leader

General Motors; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 179,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

GM vehicle discounts

Tuition assistance

Job summary

General Motors seeks a Leader of People Analytics Enablement to guide semantic, governance, data foundations, and adoption of workforce insights at scale. You will co-drive the PA BI strategy with PA leadership and IT, turning strategy into scalable, governed data products and analytics enablement.

You will mentor teams, shape data definitions, and drive adoption across HR strategy and enablement, ensuring trusted workforce data informs decisions enterprise-wide.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in People Analytics, HR analytics enablement, or enterprise analytics.
• 5+ years leading teams across analytics, enablement, data, product, or BI functions.
• Proven success scaling governed analytics with modern BI and data foundations.

Responsibilities

• Co-architect and execute the People Analytics Enablement and BI Strategy with PA leadership and IT.
• Translate strategy into prioritized, governed products, semantic foundations, and adoption practices.
• Lead PA BI team to deliver trusted data products, semantic definitions, and analytics capabilities.
• Govern common business vocabulary, KPIs, dimensions, hierarchies, ontology, and data certification.

Skills

People Analytics leadership

BI strategy

Semantic modeling

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Remote/Hybrid

Remote - Michigan

Remote - United States

Full time

JR-202622030

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a Leader of People Analytics (PA) Enablement to lead the team responsible for the semantic, governance, data, and adoption foundations that make workforce insights trusted, scalable, and decision-ready across the enterprise.

Reporting to the People Analytics Leader, this role carries high accountability for co-architecting and executing the People Analytics Enablement and BI Strategy in partnership with PA leadership, Strategy & Enablement peers, and IT. People Analytics and IT are co-accountable for BI Strategy & Enablement; this role turns that direction into scalable semantic models, metric definitions, certified data products, advanced analytics enablement, and insight delivery that are pivotal to the broader HR Strategy & Enablement organization’s success.

What You’ll Do

Lead Strategy Execution and Prioritization

• Co-architect and execute the People Analytics Enablement and BI Strategy with the PA Leadership Team and IT under PA/IT co-accountability, aligning to business priorities, HR transformation, the PA-IT operating model, and the broader HR Strategy & Enablement agenda
• Translate strategy into priorities, business requirements, governed products, semantic foundations, adoption practices, standards, reusable assets, and measurable outcomes
• Enable People Analytics as a core tenet of HR Strategy & Enablement by ensuring data, insights, semantic foundations, and analytics enablement are embedded into how HR strategies are designed, prioritized, deployed, and measured

Enable Data, Semantic, and Analytics Foundations

• Lead the PA BI team accountable for trusted workforce meaning, semantic models, certified data products, BI assets, and advanced analytics capabilities
• Translate workforce data into PA-ready logic, joins, point-in-time logic, derived attributes, analytical features, and domain validation
• Enable consultants, analysts, and advanced analytics teams with analysis-ready data models, certified datasets, semantic definitions, and analytical features
• Govern common business vocabulary, KPIs, dimensions, hierarchies, ontology, certification, and versioning to create a trusted source of truth

Manage Demand, Governance, Adoption, and Semantic Enablement

• Adopt and improve the People Analytics operating model for intake, prioritization, portfolio and capacity management, governance, decision rights, and success measures
• Move approved PA demand through a disciplined backlog and governance process that balances sponsorship, capacity, decision rights, standards, and readiness
• Drive adoption so analytics moves from available to used in decisions, supported by clear narratives, embedded guidance, and practical data literacy
• Enable the semantic layer so agents, workflows, BI tools, and decision processes can leverage common language, trusted workforce data, and consistent metric definitions curated by this team
• Translate business definitions, journey context, and moments that matter into reusable semantic assets and patterns that scale across BI tools, AI-enabled workflows, and embedded decision processes

Strengthen Data Foundations and Partnership

• Partner with IT, PA, and Strategy & Enablement to strengthen governance, quality, definitions, handoffs, and operating routines across the data pipeline
• Represent PA ownership for PA Silver prototyping, semantic governance, Gold products, BI model enablement, AI/agent access, ML features, APIs, self-service data foundations, and advanced analytics data model enablement
• Connect workforce, experience, operational, journey, and organizational data to support lifecycle, journey-level, and enterprise decision-making

What We’re Looking For

Experience

• 12+ years in People Analytics, HR analytics enablement, enterprise analytics, data product, BI, or analytics platform leadership
• 5+ years leading teams across analytics, enablement, data, product, semantic modeling, BI, or platform functions
• Proven success scaling governed analytics with the latest technologies, BI strategy, semantic models, data foundations, and insight delivery in complex enterprise environments

Expertise

• Strong understanding of employee lifecycle, HR journeys, workforce planning, talent strategy, and HR decision-making moments
• Deep familiarity with analytics operating models, data-as-a-product, semantic governance, BI strategy execution, insight delivery foundations, and platform-enabled analytics
• Knowledge of data governance, integration, metric certification, data quality, business validation, workforce data models, and consumption-ready data products

Skills

• Enterprise and systems thinking
• Portfolio, prioritization, and capacity leadership
• BI strategy execution, semantic enablement, metric governance, and analytics adoption
• Executive communication, influence, and change leadership
• Ability to translate complex analytics ecosystems into clear, trusted, usable decision support

Why This Role Matters

This role turns trusted workforce data into real decisions and real actions by translating PA and IT’s BI Strategy & Enablement accountability into governed products, semantic foundations, team execution, and adoption practices that make workforce insights trusted and usable at scale.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

The salary range for this role is (Position $178,800 and $273,200 from Pay Transparency Posting Salary Ranges). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits:

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role.

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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