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Salary: USD 86,400 - 198,700 / annual
Veeam Software, a data and AI trust company headquartered in Seattle, is seeking a Talent Growth & Program Manager to build and operate career architecture and performance management programs at scale. This is a builder role focused on creating structure where ambiguity exists and ensuring that structure lands in systems, manager conversations, and real career decisions.
You will own three interconnected workstreams:
**Career Architecture**: Design and maintain 150+ career tracks across the organization, defining critical skills, behavioral expectations, and progression criteria at each level. Build relationships with subject matter experts across functions and establish governance rhythms to keep career content accurate as the business evolves. Partner across People & Culture (Recruiting, Onboarding, Performance, Mobility, Workforce Planning, Rewards) to ensure career architecture actively feeds all talent systems. Drive the operational buildout of internal mobility, including process documentation, stakeholder enablement, and continuous improvement. Advise stakeholders on how career design decisions affect equitable outcomes across populations, functions, and regions.
**Performance Cycle Program Management**: Project manage Veeam's twice-annual performance review cycles end-to-end, including timeline, dependencies, readiness gates, escalation paths, and post-cycle retrospectives. Rally diverse collaborators (HRBPs, Rewards, HRIS, Comms, regional leads) around a single plan and hold the plan when priorities compete. Refine and launch cycle communications and manager enablement, iterating based on completion data, quality signals, and participant feedback.
**Change Strategy, Communications & Technology Enablement**: Design communications, resources, and enablement that change how team members and managers think about career and performance tools. Support the Workday configuration story for career and performance modules by partnering with HRIS/IT on design, configuration, testing, and adoption. Identify opportunities to streamline workflows and apply AI capabilities to reduce manual effort. Translate program data into insights and recommendations, surfacing trends and proposing improvements rather than just reporting numbers.
You will operate with autonomy, bringing higher-impact decisions to your manager while setting your own path on the rest. This role reports to the Senior Manager, Talent Growth & Inclusion.
**Requirements:**
- Experience in talent management, performance management, HR, or organizational development, including ownership of a recurring cyclical program
- Proven ability to run complex, interdependent workstreams independently and deliver in ambiguity with minimal supervision
- Hands-on Workday experience; configuration or testing exposure in Talent or Performance modules strongly preferred
- Strong communicator who creates clarity in complex discussions and influences without authority across functions, levels, and regions
- Track record of driving outcomes through partnership, not just coordination
- Analytical mindset: comfortable interpreting program data and using AI tools to sharpen analysis
- Growth mindset and genuine curiosity about emerging technology; ability to challenge status quo and adapt plans when conditions shift without dropping quality
- Willingness to mentor and share knowledge
