Talent Activation Strategy and Projects Manager

The Opportunity:

We've built a People organization grounded in trust, empathy, and high standards. Now we're in the harder work of making that scalable. That means moving from reactive, judgment-driven people decisions to durable systems and processes that hold up as we grow. We're mid-build. You won't be inheriting a finished playbook; you'll be writing it.

Our team, Talent Activation, is responsible for raising the performance bar and building a feedback culture, while protecting the culture that makes Grow worth working at. We're made up of Business Partners, Performance, Learning, and Employee Relations, and we operate with an unusually high-touch model: one Business Partner for every 30 managers, a rejection of traditional L&D in favor of real behavioral change, and a deliberate early investment in the systems and AI infrastructure that will let us move faster and more consistently as we scale.

The Talent Activation Strategy and Projects Manager is for someone who wants to be in the engine room of that build. You'll own execution of our highest-priority initiatives, turn strategy into tools and processes that PBPs and managers actually use, and help us become an AI-forward People organization without losing the human touch that defines our culture. You'll report directly to the Senior Director of Talent Activation and work closely with senior Talent Activation leaders every day.

If you're energized by complexity, accountability, and the chance to build something that lasts at a company with a mission that matters, this is the role.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Own the execution of Talent Activation's highest-priority initiatives on our roadmap. This is not a one-project-at-a-time role. You'll be running multiple complex, multi-workstream initiatives simultaneously – such as reworking our performance review cycles, standing up a Talent Density Mapping program, and designing individualized New Hire Onboarding into our performance culture – while keeping each moving from scoped strategy through frameworks, build, launch, and steady-state operation. Your primary internal clients are our People Business Partners (PBPs)
• Translate strategy into things people actually use. You'll take an opinionated Talent Activation strategy + roadmap and turn it into concrete workstreams, tools, playbooks, templates, and operating rhythms that PBPs and managers rely on every day. A good output from you isn't a deck. It's a process that runs without you in the room
• Drive cross-functional execution with rigor. You'll coordinate across PBPs, People Operations, People Analytics, and Legal to ensure programs are scalable, compliant, measurable, and system-ready. You'll maintain clear plans, timelines, risk logs, and success metrics and you'll know when to decide independently versus when to escalate
• Be a force multiplier on AI. We're actively building AI into how we work – including an AI coaching tool embedded in Slack for managers and an AI-assisted performance review process. You'll help us move faster and work smarter by identifying where AI can reduce manual work, improve signal quality, and support real-time decisions. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should have hands-on experience applying AI tools to People or operational workflows — and be genuinely curious about what's next
• Swing support as Business Partner. On an as-needed basis, you'll provide project and operational support to our Tech PBP (or others) by helping move people programs forward