Project Manager, Employee Experience & HR Technology Director - (B6)

Description

The company makes materials science and engineering solutions used in almost every new semiconductor chip and advanced display worldwide.

Its equipment is central to AI development and to bringing next-generation chips to market.

This role sits within the HR function and works across HR centers of excellence, global information services and HR leadership.

Responsibilities

• Set and run strategic governance for the HR transformation and HR technology portfolio so it matches enterprise priorities, capacity and business results.
• Create the prioritization frameworks, investment criteria and governance standards used to judge and sequence HR initiatives.
• Give senior leaders clear views of portfolio health, dependencies, risks, resource limits and delivery results.
• Lead portfolio decisions with HR leaders, COEs and GIS partners, weighing competing demands.
• Run portfolio reviews with senior stakeholders to agree objectives, delivery commitments and investment trade-offs.
• Advise the VP of Employee Experience and HR leadership on portfolio strategy, delivery status, risk and readiness.
• Work with HR Technology leadership to line up technology investment, roadmaps and transformation goals across HR systems.
• Spot portfolio risks early that could affect business goals, adoption or timelines.
• Shape the multi-year HR transformation roadmap with HR leaders and GIS, and run annual and quarterly planning cycles.
• Turn business priorities into executable HR and technology initiatives and find overlaps that can be combined.
• Make sure every roadmap item has governance, resource plans and change readiness work behind it.
• Promote portfolio management practices, governance frameworks and delivery standards across HR.
• Assess delivery maturity and set executive reporting and success measures that show performance and business value.
• Lead lessons-learned reviews and improvement work, and recommend structural fixes for systemic delivery blockers.
• Own portfolio-wide change readiness plans with COE leaders, HR business partners and communications teams.
• Assess readiness for major HR technology and employee experience initiatives, and guide senior leaders on change impacts, stakeholder issues and adoption risk.

Requirements

• You have 10-15+ years of progressive experience in portfolio management, enterprise PMO leadership, HR transformation, HR technology or large-scale business transformation.
• You have led enterprise portfolios or PMO functions for complex, cross-functional organizations running several strategic initiatives at once.
• You have worked with executive teams, shaped strategic decisions and aligned matrixed organizations.
• You have overseen significant HR technology transformations, such as Workday, HRIS, employee experience platforms or enterprise-wide system rollouts.
• You have built and governed enterprise roadmaps, investment portfolios and strategic planning processes.
• You have worked in large, global organizations going through major transformation.
• Strongly preferred: background in Employee Experience, HR Operations, HR Transformation, Digital HR or Workforce Technology.
• You bring deep skill in portfolio governance, program management, resource planning, risk management and organizational change.
• You understand HR processes, employee lifecycle programs, HR operating models and the technology that supports them.
• You can assess complex organizational dependencies and align business, process, technology and people needs.
• You have built executive dashboards, portfolio reporting and investment prioritization methods.
• You know Agile, product delivery, Waterfall and hybrid delivery at scale.
• You have executive presence and can move senior leaders to act without formal authority.
• You combine business acumen with strategic thinking and link portfolio choices to wider organizational goals.
• You are an excellent facilitator who manages stakeholders across executive, functional and technical groups.
• You handle ambiguity, competing priorities and organizational complexity well.
• You have a record of building alignment across varied stakeholder groups and delivering enterprise-wide outcomes.
• You communicate well in executive presentations, roadmap storytelling and strategic recommendations.
• You hold yourself accountable, show sound judgment and have strong organizational influence.

Conditions

Pay range: $164,000.00 - $225,500.00.

Location: Santa Clara, CA.

Full-time, regular position.

Travel is 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance is available.

Senior individual contributor who does not directly manage project execution teams.

Pay depends on location, hire grade, job knowledge, skills, experience and internal equity with current team members.

For sales roles, the posted range is target total cash, meaning base salary plus target bonus at 100% goal achievement.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Possible participation in a bonus and stock award program, as applicable.
• Programs supporting personal and professional growth, health and wellbeing at work, at home and beyond.