Director of People Programs, Systems & Analytics

Join LaunchDarkly as the Director of People Programs, Systems & Analytics. In this role, you will establish operational objectives, roadmaps, and work plans for People programs, systems, analytics, and AI. You will lead a small team, design the vision and strategy for People programs, and ensure optimal management of the employee lifecycle through our HR tech stack. You will also design an analytics strategy, define a responsible AI strategy, and lead change management for new systems and processes.

• Establish operational objectives, roadmaps, work plans, and operating rhythms for People programs, systems, analytics, and AI.
• Lead a small team to develop technical and AI-assisted capabilities while turning workforce data into analytics and insights.
• Design the vision, strategy, roadmap, governance, and operating rhythms for all People programs, systems, analytics, and AI, in alignment with LaunchDarkly’s business and People priorities.

• Practical experience evaluating or advancing AI use cases, with sound judgment around sensitive employee data, privacy, governance, accuracy, and human oversight
• A track record of organization-wide project and program management, designing operating models, building roadmaps, and delivering cross-functional programs at scale
• Excellent written communication, prioritization, program management, and change leadership skills
• 15+ years of experience in People Operations, including 5 years leadership across People Programs, People Systems, People Analytics, or a similarly complex function. Experience should include the selection and optimization of HRIS and Talent systems at small and medium- to large-sized companies
• Experience designing, managing, or improving integrations across HR systems and connected People tools to support reliable data flows and scalable operations
• Strong understanding of how People systems, processes, data, and employee programs fit together. Experience improving HR technology, data quality, reporting, analytics, automation, or self-service decision support
• Experience managing and developing a team and building strong cross-functional partnerships
• Implementation and development of comprehensive data analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tools for Human Resources and Talent organizations with knowledge and experience in AI-enablement for those functions
• You are ambitious about innovation, pragmatic about execution, and thoughtful about risk and employee trust
• You can set organization-wide direction at the program level while engaging deeply enough to understand implementation details and remove barriers
• You are a strategic, systems-oriented People leader who connects technology, data, programs, and human experience
• You are collaborative, grounded, proactive, and committed to building scalable, equitable experiences for employees and managers
• You are curious about People analytics and AI and disciplined about where they should and should not be applied