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Senior Program Manager, People Experience

Zoox· People Experience – PEx
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Foster City, CA$165k - $199kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Program Manager on the People Experience (PEx) team, serving as the strategic partner to Talent Acquisition. Owns planning, reporting, and vendor infrastructure to enable scalable hiring, with responsibilities spanning Talent Operations, conferences, tooling, governance, and cross-functional alignment.

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.
  • Event & Conference Operations: Own end-to-end planning and execution for large-scale industry conferences (e.g., CVPR), including budget, vendor management, and operational logistics — plus lighter-touch support for smaller industry events.
  • Interviewing & Enablement Support: Provide light-touch support for interview standardization (playbooks, calibration) and Talent enablement initiatives (onboarding curriculum, SOPs) as needed.
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Functional Alignment: Serve as the primary point of contact between PEx PMO and the Talent organization, partnering closely with Recruiting leadership, HRIS, and Legal to ensure alignment across initiatives.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 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).
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience building data-driven planning models.
  • 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.
  • Strong group facilitation and presentation skills across a variety of formats.
  • Experience planning and executing large-scale conferences, corporate events, or offsites, including budget and vendor management.

Skills

Required:Talent operations program managementStakeholder managementData-driven planning

Benefits

  • Paid time off (e.g. sick leave, vacation, bereavement)
  • Unpaid time off
  • Zoox Stock Appreciation Rights
  • Amazon RSUs
  • Health insurance
  • Long-term care insurance
  • Long-term and short-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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