# Program Manager, HR

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Project Management, People Operations, Hr Operations, Benefits, Internal Communications, AI, Automation, Dashboards, Issue Trackers, Data Analytics, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Okrs
**Posted:** 2026-08-20

> The Associate Program Manager, HR will lead cross-functional HR programs spanning benefits, AI initiatives, operating cadences, and M&A readiness. The role requires 6+ years of program or HR operations experience, strong execution and stakeholder-management skills, analytical capability, and discretion with confidential information.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and operationalize HR programs and projects from intake through execution, defining scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and success measures.
- Support benefits programs and operational improvements, including employee education, stakeholder coordination, communications, process documentation, issue resolution, and cross-functional execution.
- Partner with the VP of HR as a PMO lead across AI in HR, OKRs/QBRs, M&A readiness and integration, Rippling Rituals, product feedback, and other HR workstreams.
- Build and manage project plans, trackers, dashboards, executive updates, decision documents, and enablement materials.
- Improve HR processes through automation, better data, clearer ownership, and stronger operating discipline.
- Anticipate risks and dependencies, surface issues early, and drive resolution.
- Maintain documentation, project hygiene, and communication loops.
- Handle confidential HR, employee, business, and executive information with discretion.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in program management, project management, people operations, HR operations, consulting, business operations, or HR-related project delivery.
- Strong program and project management fundamentals, including scoping, planning, governance, milestone tracking, risk management, communications, stakeholder management, and execution.
- Experience supporting complex, cross-functional initiatives in fast-moving, high-growth environments.
- Familiarity with benefits, HR operations, and internal communications.
- Strong analytical and technical skills, including use of AI, data, dashboards, and issue trackers.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including facilitation, presentations, and synthesis of complex information.
- Strong stakeholder management, judgment, discretion, attention to detail, follow-through, and ownership.
- Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and hands-on execution.

## Nice-to-haves
- Passion for AI, automation, and self-service culture.
- Ability to operate strategically while managing detailed execution.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary, benefits, and equity.
- US compensation varies by location tier and considers professional background, experience, and location.

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