Position: Director, People Planning & Programs
Reports To: Chief People Officer
Location: United States (Remote)
About Us
HighLevel is an AI powered, all-in-one white-label sales & marketing platform that empowers agencies, entrepreneurs, and businesses to elevate their digital presence and drive growth. We are proud to support a global and growing community of over 2 million businesses, comprised of agencies, consultants, and businesses of all sizes and industries. HighLevel empowers users with all the tools needed to capture, nurture, and close new leads into repeat customers. As of mid 2025, HighLevel processes over 15 billion API hits and handles more than 2.5 billion message events every day. Our platform manages over 470 terabytes of data distributed across five databases, operates with a network of over 250 microservices, and supports over 1 million domain names.
Our People
With over 1,500 team members across 15+ countries, we operate in a global, remote-first environment. We are building more than software; we are building a global community rooted in creativity, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in cultivating a culture where innovation thrives, ideas are celebrated, and people come first, no matter where they call home.
Our Impact
As of mid 2025, our platform powers over 1.5 billion messages, helps generate over 200 million leads, and facilitates over 20 million conversations for the more than 2 million businesses we serve each month. Behind those numbers are real people growing their companies, connecting with customers, and making their mark - and we get to help make that happen.
About the Role:
We’re hiring a Director, People Planning & Programs to serve as a strategic operating partner to our Chief People Officer (CPO) and global People leadership team (PLT). This is a strategic, execution-heavy role responsible for ensuring our People function has a strong operating rhythm to scale in a fast-growing, remote-first company.Unlike a traditional HR role, this position will act as the program architect and operator for high-impact people initiatives for the CPO. You’ll be a force multiplier for our People leadership team, a key cross functional stakeholder to ensure structure, speed, and flawless execution in a fast-paced, global (US + India) environment. This is a Director-level individual contributor role with high visibility across the organization.
What You'll Do:
People Program Project Management Office (PMO)
- Establish and lead a Program Management Office (PMO) for the CPO to drive accountability for critical people initiatives.
- Develop and maintain templates, planning tools, milestone tracking, and reporting cadences.
- Act as a central coordination point, ensuring accountability, momentum, and consistent cross-functional progress across the people team.
Planning & Budget Operations
- Partner with PLT and finance to manage people team budgets and forecasts
- Translate strategy into actionable operating plans that align with people team strategy and goals
- Track and report on key people operating metrics to inform decision-making and strategy refinement
Strategic Projects & Team Operating Rhythm
- Incubate and drive strategic people programs from concept to execution, owning timelines, stakeholder engagement, and delivery.
- Design and lead the People team’s annual and quarterly planning, goal setting, and operating cadences.
- Build executive-ready materials (dashboards, decks, narratives) on people team operating metrics and progress
- Ensure the people team operates with focus, discipline, and transparency through scalable rituals and accountability frameworks.
Internal Communication & Change Management
- Build and run a comms engine for the People org—ensuring clarity, consistency, and engagement across global teams.
- Partner with PLT and external stakeholders to drive change management and adoption of new programs and tools.
- Ensure US and India teams stay aligned and informed on priorities and progress.
Executive Partnership & Strategic Enablement
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Chief People Officer (CPO), ensuring alignment on the most critical people and business priorities.
- Prepare high-quality briefing materials, talking points, and internal communications for CPO engagements and company-wide initiatives.
- Bring structure to complex, cross-functional initiatives in shaping decision-making frameworks and managing execution across time zones (U.S. + India).
- Act as the connective tissue between strategic planning, execution, and communication, enabling focus, visibility, and accountability across the People function.
- Maintain a pulse on organizational dynamics and proactively surface insights, blockers, or risks to the CPO with clear recommendations.
- Leverage data to inform decision-making and support executive narratives around performance, investments, and priorities.