Sandisk understands how people and businesses consume data and we relentlessly innovate to deliver solutions that enable today’s needs and tomorrow’s next big ideas. With a rich history of groundbreaking innovations in Flash and advanced memory technologies, our solutions have become the beating heart of the digital world we’re living in and that we have the power to shape.
Sandisk meets people and businesses at the intersection of their aspirations and the moment, enabling them to keep moving and pushing possibility forward. We do this through the balance of our powerhouse manufacturing capabilities and our industry-leading portfolio of products that are recognized globally for innovation, performance and quality.
Sandisk has two facilities recognized by the World Economic Forum as part of the Global Lighthouse Network for advanced 4IR innovations. These facilities were also recognized as Sustainability Lighthouses for breakthroughs in efficient operations. With our global reach, we ensure the global supply chain has access to the Flash memory it needs to keep our world moving forward.
Description
About the Role As a People Experience Program Manager, you will independently lead the orchestration and delivery of highly visible, enterprise-wide People (HR) programs, including compensation planning, performance, listening, benefits, and other employee experience initiatives that require disciplined execution across functions, systems, regions, and stakeholder groups. This role serves as the connection across People Experience, Compensation, Benefits, IT, Communications, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and business stakeholders to translate strategy into scalable execution. With the Center of Excellence teams shaping the strategy, you will partner in converting those strategies into program execution plans, governance routines, launch-ready experiences, and adoption mechanisms that support successful enterprise delivery. Success in this role requires experienced program leadership, strong judgment, and the ability to influence outcomes without direct authority in ambiguous, sensitive, and time-bound environments. You will drive momentum across complex workstreams, align stakeholders on decisions and trade-offs, anticipate and resolve risks, and maintain accountability for outcomes that affect leaders, employees, and cross-functional delivery teams.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Translate People program strategy, policy requirements, and business priorities into end-to-end program execution plans that define outcomes, roadmaps, milestones, dependencies, readiness checkpoints, success measures, and roles (through a RACI matrix) across teams and functions.
- Coordinate and track systems (e.g. Workday) readiness with program strategy owner, IT, and digital experience teams including areas such as testing/UAT, issue triage, reporting, data validation, approvals, launch readiness, and closeout. Lead program management for People Experience initiatives, including compensation, performance, benefits, employee listening, and other enterprise employee experience programs, by bringing structure, stakeholder coordination, and execution discipline to priority work.
- Align cross-functional partners on requirements, dependencies, timing, trade-offs, resourcing constraints, regional considerations, and business impacts to support clear decisions and disciplined execution. Frame options, surface risks, clarify decision owners, document recommendations, and escalate unresolved policy questions or execution barriers with concise context, implications, and recommended paths forward.
- Partner on the development of change readiness and enablement materials, including leader and HR partner guidance, program enablement content, stakeholder updates, employee-facing communications, and adoption support that help audiences understand decisions, timelines, actions, and impacts.
- Assess global and regional readiness, localize execution needs, capture lessons learned, and measure post-cycle effectiveness to drive continuous improvement across future People programs.
- Establish and lead governance routines that clarify roles, decision rights, escalation paths, risk posture, milestone health, issue ownership, executive visibility, and post-cycle learnings.
- Manage sensitive execution across data readiness, exception governance, compliance considerations, approvals, issue resolution, stakeholder readiness, and closeout while protecting confidentiality and maintaining clear audit discipline.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of progressive project/program management experience with compensation, benefits, performance or change management discipline areas within global, matrixed organizations, including experience leading complex workstreams independently.
- Strong understanding of People programs, with required depth in compensation cycles, incentives, equity, job evaluation, salary structures, benchmarking, pay governance, and compliance considerations.
- Proven ability to lead complex, sensitive, time-bound programs with enterprise visibility, cross-functional dependencies, senior stakeholder engagement, and judgment under ambiguity.
- Strong advisory, collaboration, and stakeholder influence skills, with the ability to align leaders, clarify decisions, frame trade-offs, navigate ambiguity, and drive accountability across teams without direct authority.
- Advanced analytical and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to connect data, process, policy, risk, timing, governance, and employee experience into scalable execution plans and practical recommendations.
- Clear written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to create executive-ready narratives, decision materials, enablement resources, status updates, and leadership communications that make complex issues easy to understand and act on.
- Sound judgment handling confidential information while balancing business needs, governance, compliance, and employee experience.
- Experience using Workday or similar HR systems to support program readiness, reporting, approvals, issue tracking, testing/UAT, data validation, and coordination with People Technology or IT partners.
- Proficiency using project management tools to manage integrated plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, status reporting, and stakeholder follow-up.
Preferred Skills
- Workday module experience supporting cycle setup, understanding of the testing/UAT process, reporting, issue resolution, approvals, and closeout.
- Experience managing global compensation programs across merit, promotion, bonus, equity, along with the performance cycle and other talent planning programs.
- Ability to thrive in complex, matrixed environments while collaborating with diverse cross-functional partners.
- Experience building change readiness plans, leader or HRBP enablement resources, stakeholder updates, and post-cycle lessons learned that improve adoption, clarity, and future-cycle execution.
Additional Information
Sandisk is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.
Sandisk thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.
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