Senior Program Manager, People Experience

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.
• Initiative-Based Responsibilities 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