Project Manager, People Strategy, Programs & Enablement

Salary: $117.1K - $137.6K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Confluent is seeking a functional Project Manager to act as a force-multiplier focused on increasing execution efficiency within the People organization. Reporting to the Manager, People Strategy, Programs & Enablement, you will serve as a centralized resource and partner closely with all People functions and other cross-functional stakeholders. This role is instrumental in guiding the seamless transition from big picture to details while navigating tight timelines, facilitating cohesive collaboration, providing operational discipline, identifying and mitigating dependencies and risks, and forging strong relationships through effective communication.

Responsibilities

• Support planning processes by leading conversations with key stakeholders to develop concepts into defined deliverables and ensure execution reliability.
• Continuously improve and scale the People organization by sharing project frameworks, tools, and best practices that can be easily adopted to increase delivery efficiency.
• Lead and manage cross-team, cross-functional initiatives from inception through deployment, including defining scope and execution milestones.
• Proactively evaluate and resolve obstacles and balance competing priorities through fluid communication with project stakeholders.
• Engage and energize project teams to achieve aggressive goals.
• Leverage general knowledge to conduct simple analyses and establish performance metrics.
• Solicit and evaluate feedback to determine appropriate actions, solutions, and initiatives needed.
• Create and deliver clear and detailed documentation and presentations for complex projects.

Requirements

• Proficient project management skills and ability to manage competing priorities without losing sight of the most important initiatives.
• 3+ years of practical working knowledge and experience in human resources with at least one full deployment project leveraging key HR systems (e.g. HCM/HRIS, LMS, ATS, etc.).
• Demonstrable experience in analyzing business needs and aligning them to project execution and KPIs.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to influentially drive alignment among stakeholders while ensuring execution accountability across teams.
• Deductive problem-solving for moderate to highly complex problems; some limited data analysis may be required.
• Proven ability to clearly document and articulate goals, requirements, timelines, resources, and risk within and across cross-functional teams.

What Gives You an Edge

• Experience with Workday
• Exposure to Tableau
• PMP certification(s)
• Experience working in a high-growth public company setting

About Confluent

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real-time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

Company Culture

Come As You Are. Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job-related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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