Zoox
Senior Program Manager, People Experience
Foster City, CA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$165k-$199kDetected 19 days ago
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Green-card follow-through: 84%
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About the role
- If you're not shy about herding cats and managing chaos, then this role was made for you!
Responsibilities
- Program & Project Leadership: Lead Talent Operations initiatives end-to-end - including the Referral Rewards Program, requisition administration, process improvement efforts, and tooling rollouts.
- Strategic Translation & Execution: Own enterprise Hiring Goals capacity planning methodology, translating business growth targets into concrete hiring plans in partnership with Talent leadership and HRIS.
- Interviewing & Enablement Support: Provide light-touch support for interview standardization (playbooks, calibration) and Talent enablement initiatives (onboarding curriculum, SOPs) as needed.
- Talent Tooling & Vendor Management: Own relationships with core Talent tooling vendors (Lever, Gem, LinkedIn, ModernLoop, and others), partnering on tool roadmap decisions and budget/contract planning.
- Governance & Reporting: Own executive-facing reporting, including the Monthly Hiring Report, and partner with HRIS on data governance and quality for Talent's Workday-based reporting infrastructure.
- Hiring Goals & Capacity Planning: Build and maintain the methodology Zoox uses to plan hiring capacity against business growth targets - one of the most complex, least-documented pieces of Talent's operating model today.
- AI in Talent: Partner with Legal/Employment Law on the responsible adoption of AI tools and processes within interviewing and recruiting - a high-sensitivity, cross-functional initiative requiring careful, thoughtful execution.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant program management experience, with a focus on Talent Acquisition operations, recruiting program management, or workforce/hiring capacity planning.
- Proven experience designing and delivering scalable operational programs in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong functional expertise in recruiting/TA systems and tooling (e.g., Lever, Gem, LinkedIn Recruiter, or equivalent).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a proven track record of influencing senior leaders and stakeholders.
- Experience partnering with Legal, Compliance, or similar functions on sensitive, high-visibility initiatives.
- Experience planning and executing large-scale conferences, corporate events, or offsites, including budget and vendor management.
- If you are ready to adapt to new challenges, take on new roles as needed, and hit deadlines, we would love to hear from you.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience building data-driven planning models.
- Strong group facilitation and presentation skills across a variety of formats.
- If you are ready to adapt to new challenges, take on new roles as needed, and hit deadlines, we would love to hear from you. If you're not shy about herding cats and managing chaos, then this role was made for you!
Skills
- As PEx's needs evolve, this person will also be expected to take on new projects and departments beyond Talent.
Compensation
- $165k-$199k
This listing is sourced directly from Zoox's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.