Job Description
The Strategic Workforce Planning Lead at Aurora is responsible for designing and executing workforce strategies, analyzing current capabilities, forecasting future talent needs, and collaborating with leadership to align staffing with business goals in a fast-paced, innovative environment focused on self-driving technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute a comprehensive Strategic Workforce Planning framework to analyze current workforce capabilities and forecast future talent needs.
- Conduct demand forecasting by analyzing business goals to project staffing requirements.
- Perform supply analysis by evaluating internal workforce skills, attrition, and turnover.
- Identify gaps between future needs and current workforce capabilities, including technical skills and potential AI impacts.
- Partner with leadership and cross-functional teams to align workforce strategies with business objectives, budgets, and headcount plans.
- Develop data-driven models, dashboards, and key workforce metrics to track trends and measure SWP effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Finance to ensure hiring plans align with financial budgets and long-term plans.
- Recommend optimal workforce composition and location strategies to maximize efficiency and talent availability.
- Identify critical talent gaps and develop strategies such as build, buy, or borrow to address them.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field required; advanced degree preferred.
- 10 years of progressive experience in Human Resources, with a strong focus on Workforce Planning.
- Proven experience partnering directly with C-suite executives within a rapidly scaling organization.
- Proven experience designing and implementing Strategic Workforce Planning frameworks and models.
- Highly proficient in using Workday and other systems tools to extract, analyze, and present data-driven insights to senior leaders.
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to effectively address all organizational levels.
- Ability to travel within the U.S. approximately 10% of the time.
- Ability to be in the office at least 3 days per week.
Benefits & Perks
- Base salary range of 147k - 238k per year
- Annual bonus
- Equity compensation
- Hybrid work environment with at least 3 days in the office per week
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