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Head of Employee Experience

Atoms - San Francisco, CA, United States - In-office - posted 2026-10-19

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Salary: USD 182,000 - 225,000 / annual

Atoms is building Physical AI—real-world robots for industries including food, mining, and transport. The company integrates hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate to deploy intelligent systems at scale. As Head of Employee Experience, you will build and lead the employee experience function from the ground up. Your responsibilities include: **Strategy & Program Development**: Set the strategy and roadmap across onboarding, engagement, internal communications, and learning programs. **New Hire Experience**: Own the end-to-end new hire orientation (in-person and virtual), tailored by business unit. Develop communications, resources, and 90-day toolkits that enable new hires and their managers to succeed. **Engagement & Events**: Oversee global all-hands meetings, anniversary events, new hire Q&As with leadership, monthly in-person event series, and internal content showcasing each business unit's work. **Internal Communications**: Own company-wide communications strategy and writing for announcements, all-hands meetings, performance reviews, promotions, and organizational changes. Lead change communications for restructures and team integrations. **Learning Programs**: Build and expand learning initiatives, starting with frontline manager training. **Measurement & Impact**: Use engagement surveys, onboarding ramp time, and attrition data to inform investment decisions and demonstrate program impact. **Team Leadership**: Hire and develop a small team across onboarding, engagement, communications, and learning. Partner closely with HR Business Partners and Workplace teams. The role is based in San Francisco with a five-day-per-week onsite requirement. **Requirements**: - 7+ years in employee experience, internal communications, or related people programs, including 3+ years managing a team - Proven ability to build programs from scratch with lean teams; comfortable executing hands-on work while setting strategy - Excellent writing skills with demonstrated ownership of internal communications (executive and change communications) - Experience running onboarding and engagement for in-person, multi-office teams at high-volume hiring companies; global experience preferred - High standards, fast execution, and hands-on approach

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