Director, People Strategy
8 Minutes ago • 8-12 Years • $218,600 PA - $299,925 PA
Human Resource
Job Description
As the Director, People Strategy, you will be a strategic advisor and thought partner to the Chief People Officer and the People Leadership Team (PLT). This pivotal role focuses on how the People organization plans, measures, and communicates its impact. You will be responsible for architecting frameworks that translate the People vision into actionable strategies, clear metrics, and compelling Board-level narratives, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation objectives.
Must Have:
- Partner with the CPO to develop, evolve, and operationalize the multi-year People Strategy.
- Act as a connector and integrator across all People sub-functions, bringing cohesion and clarity to the collective strategy.
- Lead the People Team’s strategic planning and goal-setting process, ensuring alignment with company-level OKRs.
- Develop and maintain a People Strategy Dashboard that tracks performance against key enterprise and People metrics.
- Drive accountability by ensuring the PLT measures what matters and uses data to guide decision-making.
- Structure and frame People-related transformation initiatives.
- Provide strategic scaffolding and governance models for initiatives led across the People function.
- Serve as the strategic interface between the People Team and Corp Strategy.
- Lead the creation of executive and Board-facing communications that articulate the People Strategy.
- Develop clear, data-driven narratives and materials for Board updates, executive off-sites, and quarterly business reviews.
- Translate analytics and insights into concise, compelling stories that demonstrate organizational impact.
- Conduct market and best-practice research across high-growth and technology peers.
- Act as the internal strategist who anticipates talent and organizational needs based on external trends and internal data.
- 8–12 years of experience in People Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Management Consulting.
- Demonstrated success in strategy development, organizational design, and enterprise planning at scale.
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills; able to integrate data, insight, and storytelling into actionable strategies.
- Exceptional communication and presentation capability, with experience preparing materials for senior executives and Boards of Directors.
- Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- High learning agility, intellectual curiosity, and comfort operating in fast-moving, high-ambiguity environments.
Perks:
- Restricted stock units
- Bonus
- Flexibility when working from the office is needed
Your Career
As the Director, People Strategy you will serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to the Chief People Officer and the People Leadership Team (PLT).
This role is at the center of how our People organization plans, measures, and communicates its impact. You’ll architect the frameworks that translate our People vision, into actionable strategies, clear metrics, and compelling Board-level narratives.
Your Impact
1. Strategic Partner to the CPO
- Partner with the CPO to develop, evolve, and operationalize the multi-year People Strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and transformation objectives.
- Act as a connector and integrator across all People sub-functions, including Talent, Total Rewards, DEI, Learning, HR Tech, and Places, bringing cohesion and clarity to the collective strategy.
- Support the PLT in setting and prioritizing strategic initiatives that enable scale, impact, and transformation.
2. Strategic Planning & KPI Governance
- Lead the People Team’s strategic planning and goal-setting process, ensuring tight alignment with company-level OKRs.
- Develop and maintain a People Strategy Dashboard that tracks performance against key enterprise and People metrics, including leadership confidence, engagement, performance differentiation, and efficiency.
- Drive accountability by ensuring the PLT measures what matters, reports outcomes consistently, and uses data to guide decision-making.
3. Transformation Design & Strategic Governance
- Structure and frame People-related transformation initiatives
- Provide strategic scaffolding and governance models for initiatives led across the People function, ensuring alignment, sequencing, and clarity of ownership.
- Serve as the strategic interface between the People Team and Corp Strategy and or other Transformation Offices to ensure synchronization of priorities.
4. Executive and Board Communications
- Lead the creation of executive and Board-facing communications that articulate the People Strategy and progress against key priorities.
- Develop clear, data-driven narratives and materials for Board updates, executive off-sites, and quarterly business reviews, reflecting the strategic maturity of the People function.
- Translate analytics and insights into concise, compelling stories that demonstrate organizational impact, transformation outcomes, and future priorities.
5. Research, Benchmarking & Strategic Insight
- Conduct market and best-practice research across high-growth and technology peers to inform the evolution of Palo Alto Networks’ People Strategy.
- Act as the internal strategist who anticipates talent and organizational needs based on external trends and internal data.
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