PXT Program Manager – HR Ops, Data & Automation

Blue Origin; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 171,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

401(k) with company match up to 5%

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a Program Manager to lead foundational PXT initiatives, optimize HR processes, and establish governance and reporting across Workday and HR systems. You will drive planning, inspections, and data storytelling for senior leadership, partnering with Finance, Legal, and IT to enable scalable, AI-enabled HR operations.

The role emphasizes building dashboards, metrics, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to improve service levels and HR outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 7+ years of experience in program management, business operations, strategy, or chief of staff roles.
• Experience building foundational programs, processes, and operating mechanisms from the ground up.
• Experience leading process optimization and continuous improvement efforts that delivered measurable results.
• Experience establishing a rhythm of the business, including planning cycles, goal setting, business reviews, and inspection mechanisms.
• Knowledge of and experience using data and analytics, including advanced Excel, Google Sheets, and dashboards in Tableau, Power BI, or Workday reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to pull, clean, analyze, and visualize data from multiple sources, and to define metrics that drive decisions.
• Skilled in data storytelling in verbal and written communications.

Responsibilities

• Build the foundational programmatic infrastructure for PXT, including program charters, intake and prioritization, roadmaps, governance, and standard operating procedures.
• Own process optimization across PXT, mapping current-state workflows, identifying gaps and inefficiencies, and designing scalable, standardized processes using lean and continuous improvement methods.
• Establish and run the PXT rhythm of the business, including annual and quarterly planning, goals, weekly and monthly business reviews, leadership staff meetings, and executive memo writing.
• Design and operate inspection mechanisms, such as metric reviews, program health checks, audits, and action-item tracking, that create accountability and surface issues early.
• Own PXT data and reporting end to end, including defining metrics, building data models, and ensuring data quality and integrity across Workday, HR case management, and other PXT systems.
• Pull, analyze, and synthesize workforce, case, and program data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities.
• Lead data storytelling for PXT, turning analysis into clear narratives, dashboards, and recommendations that drive decisions with the CPO, and senior leaders.
• Build and maintain PXT dashboards, scorecards, and KPIs that measure service levels, case volume and cycle time, workforce trends, and program outcomes.
• Drive end-to-end program management for strategic PXT initiatives, from scoping and business case through launch, adoption, and post-launch inspection.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Finance, Legal, Security, IT, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, and People Analytics to align priorities, resolve dependencies, and deliver shared outcomes.
• Partner with Finance on the PXT Workforce Operating Plan, including headcount planning, and resource allocation.
• Champion AI and automation across PXT, identifying use cases in intake, reporting, knowledge management, and workflow, and leading pilots from concept to scaled adoption.
• Partner with Legal, IT, and Information Security to ensure AI tools and HR technology meet governance, privacy, and confidentiality requirements.
• Lead change management and communications so new processes, mechanisms, and tools land well with HR teams, leaders, and employees
• Manage program risks, dependencies, and decisions, and elevate early with clear options and recommendations.

Skills

Program management

Data storytelling

Cross-functional partnering

Process optimization

Leadership

Communication

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Equivalent experience

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Workday reporting

SQL

Python/R

ServiceNow HRSD

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a Program Manager to lead foundational PXT initiatives, optimize HR processes, and establish governance and reporting across Workday and HR systems. You will drive planning, inspections, and data storytelling for senior leadership, partnering with Finance, Legal, and IT to enable scalable, AI-enabled HR operations.

The role emphasizes building dashboards, metrics, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to improve service levels and HR outcomes.