Director of People Programs, Systems & Analytics

LaunchDarkly is looking for a Director, People Programs, Systems & Analytics to establish operational objectives, roadmaps, work plans, and operating rhythms for People programs, systems, analytics, and AI, translating the People Operations strategy and LaunchDarkly’s priorities into executable plans. This role reports to the Senior Director, People Operations and leads a small team.

• Design the vision, strategy, roadmap, governance, and operating rhythms for all People programs, systems, analytics and AI.
• Manage orchestration of organization-wide deliverables including OKRs, annual deliverables, and key projects.
• Lead, coach, and develop a small, high-performing team.
• Ensure programs and processes across the employee lifecycle are optimally managed through the HR tech stack with measurable analytics.
• Design and evolve the People technology ecosystem, ensuring systems are integrated, scalable, secure, and fit for purpose.
• Establish standards for People data quality, definitions, governance, access, documentation, and stewardship.
• Design an analytics strategy that translates workforce data into executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Define a responsible AI strategy for the People function, including governance and human oversight.
• Partner with functional partners to translate capability gaps into scalable learning experiences.
• Lead change management for new systems, programs, policies, and processes.
• Manage vendors, dependencies, and tradeoffs.

• 15+ years of experience in People Operations, including 5 years leadership across People Programs, People Systems, People Analytics, or a similarly complex function.
• Experience with selection and optimization of HRIS and Talent systems at small and medium- to large-sized companies.
• Track record of organization-wide project and program management, designing operating models, building roadmaps, and delivering cross-functional programs at scale.
• Implementation and development of data analytics, reporting, and dashboarding tools for HR and Talent, with AI-enablement knowledge.
• Experience managing and developing a team and building cross-functional partnerships.
• Experience designing, managing, or improving integrations across HR systems and connected People tools.
• 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.
• Practical experience evaluating or advancing AI use cases, with sound judgment around sensitive employee data, privacy, governance, accuracy, and human oversight.
• Excellent written communication, prioritization, program management, and change leadership skills.

Target pay ranges for Level M4: Zone 1 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Boston, Seattle) $191,800 - $263,670; Zone 2 (Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago) $172,600 - $237,270; Zone 3 (all other US locations) $163,000 - $224,070. All zones inclusive of 15% Bonus Target. In addition to salary, RSUs, health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits are provided.

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that helps software teams build better software faster. The company values humility, openness, collaboration, respect, and kindness, and is an equal opportunity employer.