Program Manager, Employee Experience Programs

GAQ426R306

The mission of this role is to provide a cohesive, streamlined, and enhanced new hire experience and eventually expand to other Employee Experience (EX) programs. This is essential for ensuring a connected and streamlined employee journey that accelerates time-to-productivity, improves first-year retention, and gives time back to cross-functional partners via automation and integrations across our global company.

The impact you will have:

As a Staff Program Manager, you will own a large, complex, cross-functional strategic initiative by executing on the redesign and operationalization of our global onboarding experience. Your work will deliver impact across multiple Functions and Regions, and you will be expected to make a reasonable case for >$500K-$1M+ impact in time/cost savings and risk reduction by improving new hire setup efficiency and retention. You will be setting the standard for how Employee Experience programs are designed and scaled across the organization.

What you will do:

• Execute on the redesign and deliver the end-to-end onboarding experience that measurably improves setup efficiency, clarity, and new hire belonging across all global regions.
• Build out a repeatable operating rhythm for onboarding (governance, KPIs, intake, updates, measurement), ensuring sustainability and high-quality execution.
• Continue and evolve deep alignment with complex cross-functional partners (IT, Talent Acquisition, L&D, People Ops, Facilities, Security, Legal) with a clear RACI and shared success metrics to streamline the experience and reduce partner effort.
• Create repeatable, scalable systems and templates for program design, stakeholder updates, and reporting that are reusable for other future EX programs.
• Scale the team's capabilities by helping your team leader develop structure in EX standards, governance, and measurement frameworks and providing mentorship to junior Program team members.

What we look for:

• Strategic Program Leadership & Execution: Proven ability to independently scope and lead large, complex, cross-functional programs. Must possess strong operational rigor and a track record of driving workstreams to completion with quality and speed.
• System-Builder Mindset: Demonstrated experience scaling cross-functional, multisystem global programs. You must have experience designing and implementing a comprehensive governance model that is successfully adopted across diverse functions.
• Change Management and Stakeholder Influence: Expertise in navigating ambiguity and driving swift resolution to functional misalignment across diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Data-Driven Decision Making & Storytelling: Ability to define and instill operating rigor (cadence, metrics, reviews), including evolving existing KPIs to track and improve the work and using data to influence prioritization decisions.
• Coaching and Collaboration: Actively involved in developing others by mentoring peers/junior PMs and leading capability-building initiatives.
• Experience Profile: Generally targeting 8-12+ years of relevant professional experience, with substantial experience owning global, end-to-end employee experience programs.

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here .

Zone 1 Pay Range

$134,800—$188,725 USD

Pay Range Transparency

Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here .

Zone 2 Pay Range

$121,300—$169,825 USD

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter LinkedIn and Facebook .

Benefits

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