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HR Principal Program Manager, Workforce Transformation

Austin, Texas, United States

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Hire Type EmployeeJob ID 16704Base Salary Range $149000-$224000Date posted 04/13/2026

We Are

At Synopsys, we drive the innovations that shape the way we live and connect. Our technology is central to the Era of Pervasive Intelligence, from self-driving cars to learning machines. We lead in chip design, verification, and IP integration, empowering the creation of high-performance silicon chips and software content. Join us to transform the future through continuous technological innovation.

You Are

You are a visionary program management leader dedicated to shaping the future of work at Synopsys. You thrive in complex, cross-functional environments and excel at transforming ambiguity into structured execution. Your expertise in job architecture, skills intelligence, and workforce transformation allows you to build scalable programs that create lasting impact. Adept at HR programs, you partner effectively with business leaders, HR teams, technical vendors, and subject matter experts. You blend strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, balancing high-level vision with meticulous attention to detail. Navigating uncertainty with confidence, you foster alignment and drive change in dynamic settings. Your systems mindset enables you to develop frameworks that support business goals, and your clear communication keeps stakeholders informed and engaged. Energized by ownership, you lead high-impact initiatives from inception through execution, always seeking opportunities for innovation and improvement. Your passion for workforce transformation is matched by your commitment to deliver solutions that empower Synopsys to succeed in the era of AI and pervasive intelligence.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Serve as the principal project/program manager for Synopsys’ TechWolf skills and AI workforce transformation initiatives.

• Provide end-to-end program management for strategic transformation projects, including workforce planning and organizational design.

• Lead the delivery of cohort-based job architecture and job design work, collaborating with business leaders, People Partners, Compensation, and subject matter experts to review and update job families and compensation frameworks.

• Facilitate structured working sessions with cohorts and role groups to confirm role scope, responsibilities, and differentiation, prioritizing tasks for AI augmentation or automation.

• Translate validated inputs into clear, consistent job descriptions within TechWolf, managing review and approval cycles with business and Compensation partners.

• Build and refine playbooks, templates, and standards to optimize speed and consistency across cohorts, owning the delivery roadmap including sequencing, milestones, risks, and dependencies.

• Partner with HRIS, PX, vendor teams, and TechWolf SMEs during integration work, validate AI task profiles and outputs, and support cohorts in planning and executing AI strategies, including tool selection, MVP definition, and pilot rollout.

• Manage program documentation, frameworks, and audits for consultative and coaching deliverables, ensuring alignment with enterprise transformation design efforts.

The Impact You Will Have

• Enable Synopsys to scale high-quality, validated job architecture across the enterprise, ensuring organizational agility and growth.

• Unlock the full value of TechWolf by maintaining accurate, structured job descriptions that support skills and task inference.

• Establish a repeatable, business-aligned model for job design and workforce transformation, driving consistency and transparency.

• Strengthen governance and alignment in job architecture decisions, enhancing clarity and trust across the organization.

• Support AI-driven workforce planning, skills intelligence, and future-of-work initiatives with a robust foundation.

• Become the trusted single-threaded owner for cohort-based job architecture delivery, recognized for driving excellence and innovation.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional programs, ideally within HR, People Operations, workforce transformation, or organizational design.

• Hands-on expertise with job architecture, job families, job design, or role standardization in large organizations.

• Strong partnership and stakeholder management skills, collaborating effectively with business leaders, People Partners, and Compensation teams.

• Ability to facilitate structured discussions and drive alignment in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces.

• Exceptional written communication skills, adept at translating complex roles into clear, actionable job descriptions.

• Comfort managing multiple cohorts simultaneously, balancing competing priorities with agility and focus.

• Experience with skills platforms, workforce analytics, or HR technology is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with AI-related workforce or skills initiatives is a plus.

Who You Are

• You bring structure without rigidity, adapting frameworks to best serve evolving needs.

• You are comfortable leading without authority and influencing across functions, fostering collaboration and buy-in.

• You are detail-oriented yet maintain a strategic perspective, balancing precision with vision.

• You communicate clearly and build trust with stakeholders at all levels, championing transparency and inclusion.

• You enjoy building sustainable solutions that endure beyond single projects, driving long-term impact and innovation.

The Team You’ll Be A Part Of

You’ll join a highly collaborative, innovative People team dedicated to shaping the future of Synopsys’ workforce. The team is focused on strategic transformation, leveraging technology and human insight to deliver scalable, business-aligned solutions. Together, you’ll partner across HR, business units, and technical domains, driving impactful programs that enable Synopsys to lead in the era of AI and pervasive intelligence.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

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At ZoomInfo we encourage creativity, value innovation, demand teamwork, expect accountability and cherish results. If you are a take-charge, take-initiative, get-stuff-done individual we want to talk to you! We have high aspirations for the company and are looking for the right people to help fulfill the dream. We strive to continually improve every aspect of the company and use cutting-edge technologies and processes to delight our customers and rapidly increase revenues.

As the Head of People Analytics & Innovation, you will build and lead ZoomInfo's people analytics function from the ground up. Reporting to the SVP of Organizational Effectiveness, you will own the end-to-end analytics strategy for HR , designing and shipping AI-powered tools, predictive and prescriptive models, dashboards, and research that drive executive decision-making on talent, workforce planning, and employee experience. This is a hands-on, player-coach role: you will set the vision for what we build, write the code to build it, and hire and develop a small, high-impact team (2 ICs) to scale the function. The ideal candidate combines deep technical fluency (Python, statistics, SQL, AI/ML) with the strategic judgment to translate people data into business outcomes and the builder mentality to stand up new capabilities from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead ZoomInfo's People Analytics & Innovation function, including hiring, developing, and managing two individual contributors
• Define and execute the people analytics strategy and roadmap, translating HR and business priorities into a pipeline of high-impact analytics projects and AI-powered tools
• Design and build custom AI tools, automation, and applications (using Python, MCPs, LLMs, and related technologies) that fundamentally improve how HR operates and makes decisions
• Develop predictive and prescriptive models across workforce planning, attrition/retention, engagement, talent mobility, and employee experience
• Create and maintain executive-ready dashboards, reports, and data visualizations that surface actionable insights for senior leadership
• Own the design, deployment, and analysis of enterprise-wide qualitative instruments (e.g., employee surveys, pulse checks) and synthesize findings into strategic recommendations
• Partner with HR leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify high-value analytical questions, scope projects, and deliver data-driven recommendations
• Transform complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives and presentations for executive audiences, including the ELT
• Establish scalable data infrastructure, governance frameworks, and measurement processes that enable a self-service analytics culture over time
• Stay current on emerging trends in people analytics, AI/ML, and HR technology , and proactively identify opportunities to apply them at ZoomInfo
• Collaborate with global Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and Risk teams to ensure people analytics initiatives adhere to regulatory requirements, data privacy standards, and internal governance policies
• Partner with enterprise Data Engineering and Infrastructure teams to architect, test, and deploy analytics solutions and AI tools into production environments
• Foster a team culture of experimentation, intellectual curiosity, and bias toward action

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in people analytics, workforce analytics, HR data science, or a related quantitative field
• 3+ years of experience managing or leading an analytics team, including hiring, coaching, and developing talent
• Demonstrated experience building AI/ML tools, applications, or automation from scratch in a professional setting (not just model training , full product delivery)
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL; experience with data manipulation, statistical modeling, and building production-grade scripts and applications
• Experience working with modern AI/ML tools and frameworks (e.g., LLMs, GenAI APIs, MCP architecture, NLP)
• Proven ability to design and execute enterprise survey programs and translate qualitative data into quantitative insights
• Exceptional data storytelling skills , ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, executive-ready communications
• Experience working with HRIS platforms (e.g., Workday) and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Snowflake, Tableau, Looker, or similar)
• Demonstrated track record of operating as a player-coach: setting strategy while personally delivering technical work
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Data Science, Statistics, I/O Psychology, Economics, Computer Science, or related)

Preferred

• Master's or Doctoral degree in a quantitative, business, or social science field (e.g., I/O Psychology, Data Science, Statistics, Organizational Behavior, Economics, Computer Science)
• Experience building a people analytics function or team from scratch
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) architecture and building AI agent workflows
• Experience with Workday RAAS reporting and Snowflake data environments
• Background in building self-service analytics platforms or democratizing data access within an organization
• Experience at a high-growth technology company or a company that has undergone significant organizational transformation

Compensation

The US base salary range for this position is $134,400 - $249,600 + bonus + equity + benefits.

Actual compensation offered will be based on factors such as the candidate's work location, qualifications, skills, experience and/or training. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range for your desired work location during the hiring process.

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This role will own the development of dashboards, analytics, and reporting that provide visibility into workforce trends and inform hiring, retention, engagement, and organisational planning strategies.

While the role maintains ownership of People systems and data integrity, its primary focus is generating insights that enable better business decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, analyse, and interpret workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across recruiting, retention, performance, and engagement.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses (attrition trends, hiring funnel performance, compensation insights, engagement drivers).
• Build statistical and trend analyses across the employee lifecycle to proactively surface insights that influence People and business decisions.
• Deliver actionable quarterly reporting that translates complex datasets into clear, executive-ready insights and recommendations.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and automated dashboards.
• Establish consistent KPI definitions and reporting standards.
• Improve data visualisation practices to ensure clarity, usability, and impact.
• Replace manual reporting processes with automated, real-time reporting solutions.
• Ensure high levels of data accuracy, integrity, and trust.
• Serve as primary People data and HRIS reporting expert.
• Partner with IT and vendors to implement and manage integrations, evaluate new features, and identify opportunities to automate data workflows.
• Manage data governance standards to ensure compliance and data privacy best practices.
• Identify process improvements that enhance efficiency, data structure and accessibility.
• Enable tier-zero employee and manager self-service for policies, processes, and data through systems and chatbots, reducing reliance on People team members and ticket systems.
• Champion system education to drive employee and manager self-service adoption and data and systems utilisation.
• Drive AI initiatives such as deploying LLMs for job descriptions and ML to forecast attrition, ensuring tools are trained and continuously refined to be fit-for-purpose and remain within ethical and legal guardrails.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, HR, Economics, or related field.
• 5–7 years of experience in People Analytics, Workforce Analytics, HRIS Analytics, or related analytical roles.
• Prior experience modifying, improving and/or implementing People systems (Greenhouse, Paylocity a bonus).
• Advanced proficiency in data visualisation tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar).
• Strong experience building executive dashboards from the ground up.
• Knowledge of data, statistical, and predictive analysis.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Experience working with large, complex datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear business insights and recommendations.
• Strong understanding of core People processes (recruiting, compensation, performance, engagement, workforce planning).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for driving continuous improvement simplifying workflows, implementing automation, and driving self-service.
• Demonstrated interest in leveraging AI to enhance systems and analytics.

Nice to haves:

• Experience in a high-growth biotech or startup environment, with exposure to IPO preparation, public company reporting requirements, or SOX-compliant processes.
• Familiarity with Greenhouse, Paylocity, or other HRIS/ATS platforms.
• Exposure to predictive analytics or basic modelling techniques.
• SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP certification.

Benefits and additional information:

The US target range of our base salary for new hires is $120,275 - $170,100. You will also be eligible to receive equity, cash bonuses, and a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits depending on the position offered.

Please note that individual total compensation for this position will be determined at the Company’s sole discretion and may vary based on several factors, including but not limited to, location, skill level, years and depth of relevant experience, and education.

We invite you to check out our career page @ freenome.com/job-openings/ for additional company information.

Freenome is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we value diversity. Freenome does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws.

Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)

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