Instacart

People Experience Program Manager, Employee Listening, ERGs

Instacart

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $118,000 - $149,000 per year

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About the role

  • Own, evolve, streamline, and maintain the operating rhythms necessary to support ERG programming - enabling them to function seamlessly.
  • Responsible for the application, election, and training of ERG leads, tracking and delivery of key projects that contribute to the ERG programs success.
  • Developing cross-functional processes/trackers/tools for events, communications, and key moments, and communicating regularly with partner teams.
  • Enabling and ensuring great collaboration between ERGs across the company, and amplifying their effectiveness to lead to better outcomes.
  • Set standards for collaboration and optimizing information flows for the program (what is our goal, why is it important, and when, where, how we meet, communicate, and decide).
  • Zoom in and zoom out, to see how all the moving parts should tie together, and systemize them into a functioning program aligned to a single set of goals.
  • Make clear process documents and regularly iterate on processes to ensure you are a “one-stop-shop” for streamlining the connections between ERG leads and business teams, particularly for events, communications, and key moments.
  • Meet regularly with ERG leads and ERG members to communicate key priorities, align on progress, and build relationships.
  • Be an empathetic listener to concerns raised within communities, protect safe spaces, and provide key insights to the business.
  • Be the facilitator of listening and understanding employee needs and sentiments across a diverse workforce and helping leaders respond appropriately.
  • Surface insights and employee experience themes around various facets of identity to leadership in order to bring our core value of “Go Far Together” to life.
  • Drive transparent and effective communication to business partners regarding program progress, flags and decisions.

Requirements

  • Experience in setting and executing progressive people and workplace strategies, and building inclusive spaces enabling employees to do their best work.
  • 5+ years proven experience in program management. Work independently to define and contain complex problems, prioritize effectively, and deliver quickly.
  • Experience creating and driving program processes which enable smooth execution, continuous improvement, and minimal waste.
  • Outstanding stakeholder management, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical global, cross-functional groups.
  • Exceptional emotional intelligence, judgment, and ability to cope with emotional content, difficult conversations, and issues of identity, trauma, and belonging.
  • High attention to detail and ability to distill complex ideas into clear guidance and communications.
  • Ability to maintain order, focus and calm in times of ambiguity, emotion, stress, or changing priorities.
  • Able to influence outcomes and people without reporting lines.
  • Have a roll-up-your-sleeves and get the work done attitude.
  • See the glass half full and be pragmatically optimistic.
  • Experience in HR and ERG program management (preferred).
  • Experience managing people, policies, and/or HR strategy (preferred).
  • Experience managing across a broad and varied client group (preferred).
Benefits
  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • new hire equity grant
  • annual refresh grants
  • flexible work arrangements
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
program managementprocess developmentproject trackingstakeholder managementcommunication strategiescontinuous improvementproblem-solvingHR strategyevent managementcross-functional collaboration
Soft Skills
emotional intelligenceverbal communicationwritten communicationrelationship buildingempathetic listeninginfluence without authorityattention to detailadaptabilitypragmatic optimismconflict resolution