People Service Delivery Lead

Meta; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a People Service Delivery Lead to own and drive large, complex transformation programs end-to-end, combining people operations expertise with hands-on engineering. You will read HR, payroll, and operations workflows to identify seams, architect tooling, and prototype solutions that close gaps.

You will lead AI-enabled improvements across engineering and HR tech, partner with stakeholders across XFN teams, and shape change management plans to ensure adoption with governance and

Qualifications

• Experience designing or operating HR processes spanning employee lifecycles.
• Ability to drive large-scale transformation with measurable business results.
• Proven ability to operate in ambiguity and deliver outcomes with little oversight.

Responsibilities

• Own development, organization, and execution of large, complex programs end-to-end.
• Define program roadmap, scope, and trade-offs to optimize time-to-release.
• Deliver tooling that reduces manual effort in people operations workflows.
• Partner with Engineering to shape system design and translate needs into requirements.
• Participate in design reviews, maintaining a high-quality bar for outputs.
• Deconstruct employee lifecycles to identify seams and automation opportunities.
• Drive AI-enabled improvements balancing efficiency with care and quality.
• Improve systems and processes through end-to-end frameworks and change management.

Skills

HR/payroll domain knowledge

XFN collaboration

Data-driven problem solving

Stakeholder management

Effective communication

Strategic program leadership

AI adoption

Change management

Technical conversations with engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or operations discipline, or equivalent experience

Tools

TypeScript

React

Job description

The People Service Delivery (PSD) team's mission is to run a high-performing, people-focused service delivery organization. Leading with care and empathy, we develop efficient processes, systems, and programs. We aim to ensure employees feel heard and have the resources and support they need during the most important moments so that they can do their best work of their careers.The People Service Delivery Lead sits at the intersection of people operations domain expertise and hands-on engineering. This role owns large-scale transformation programs end to end and, unlike a traditional program role, also contributes to designing and building the solutions those programs depend on. This lead reads HR, payroll, and people-operations workflows fluently, identifies where the seams and inefficiencies are, and then helps architect tooling solutions that close them. Working closely with leaders across People Operations, executive sponsors, engineering, and other key XFN stakeholders, this lead challenges assumptions and the status quo to improve processes, reduce barriers, and mitigate risks. Much of the work is greenfield: problems arrive without a playbook, and this lead builds the path as they walk it. This person does not need to have the “correct” answer to everything. What matters is the ability to quickly drive the conversation toward a productive solution by bringing together the right people, process, and technology, including building a working prototype when that is the fastest way to create clarity. A key expectation of this role is to be an active driver of AI adoption and creative problem-solving in operations. This lead looks for opportunities to responsibly use AI and automation to reduce manual work, improve consistency, accelerate resolution times, and enhance the employee experience while ensuring strong governance, quality, and appropriate handling of sensitive information.

People Service Delivery Lead Responsibilities:

• Own development, organization, and execution of large, complex business and operational programs from inception through delivery, with little to no oversight
• owning the program roadmap and scoping, making trade-offs to optimize time-to-release and clearly communicating goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes
• Deliver tooling that removes manual effort from people's operations workflows
• Partner with Engineering to shape system design and technical direction, translating people's operations needs into clear requirements
• Participate in design and solution reviews, holding a high-quality bar for what the team ships
• Deconstruct end-to-end employee lifecycle journeys (from hire through movement, leave, and exit) to identify seams, handoff failure points, and automation opportunities across teams and systems, then build the solutions that address them
• Drive AI-enabled operational improvements, including identifying use cases for automation, workflow optimization, knowledge management, and case deflection, balancing efficiency with employee care and quality outcomes
• Improve efficiency and quality of systems and operations through end-to-end process frameworks and optimization initiatives, and design the change management that drives adoption of new processes, systems, or tooling, including training and communication plans for all levels, locations, and XFN partners
• Partner with HR Tech, engineering teams, and vendors to identify, build, and implement appropriate technology solutions
• oversee system integration efforts and ensure a smooth transition and adoption
• Identify, escal …
• Move fluidly between audiences (SMEs, payroll leadership, engineering peers, and skip-level leadership), simplifying complex technical concepts for non-technical groups without losing precision, and maintaining open, candid, and trusting working relationships
• Monitor the stabilization of changes to ensure that processes and systems are executed per design

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience managing large-scale, global transformation or continuous improvement initiatives aimed at improving business processes, systems, and operations, with demonstrable business results
• Domain knowledge of HR, payroll, or people-operations processes, or demonstrated experience in ramping quickly into a complex operational domain
• Experience designing or operating HR processes spanning multiple stages of the employee lifecycle (e.g., hire/onboarding, movement, leaves and time away, compensation and payroll events, and offboarding), with an understanding of how upstream decisions create downstream operational load
• Experience operating independently through ambiguity, navigating competing and shifting priorities to maintain momentum, and delivering results in a detail-oriented, highly organized manner
• Experience problem-solving using data, translating thorough examination and analysis into action
• Experience working in an XFN environment: building relationships, consensus building, and motivating teams at all levels, technical and non-technical, to get colleagues on board with the benefits of transformational change

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and understanding of the tech and software industry's business models and core processes
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience in understanding and facilitating change in a dynamic environment: handling challenges and pushback from senior stakeholders
• Experience in requirement analysis techniques and methodologies, and delivering business value through process improvements in a high-tech operations space
• Comfortable working in a modern web stack (TypeScript, React) environment and able to hold substantive technical conversations with engineering partners
• Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or operations discipline, or equivalent experience

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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