People Strategic Programs Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p><a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="0"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. <a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="2"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, <a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="4"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.</p></div><h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2> <p>Apollo's People team is scaling rapidly across new geographies, business models, and technologies. We're managing M&A integration, building employment infrastructure in new markets, evaluating new tech tools, and pioneering how AI can make People work simpler and smarter.</p> <p>The SVP of People oversees all of this, but we need someone who can be the operational and strategic backbone: handling the cadence, shepherding multi-quarter projects, partnering with IT/Legal/Finance, and most importantly, becoming an extension of the SVP so she can operate at the strategy level rather than in the weeds of execution.</p> <p>The People Strategic Programs Manager will own:</p> <ul> <li>The operating rhythm of the People team (meetings, planning cycles, offsites, headcount strategy)</li> <li>Execution of strategic initiatives (ex. M&A playbook, UK employment infrastructure, ATS transition, HRIS evaluation)</li> <li>Identifying and rolling out AI efficiencies across People workflows while working with IT/Legal on governance</li> <li>Being a thought partner pulling projects, ideas, and execution off the SVP's plate</li> </ul> <p>This is an individual contributor role that leads through expertise, sound judgment, influence, and clear operating mechanisms, not direct management authority.</p> <h2><strong>What You'll Own</strong></h2> <h4><strong>People Team Operating Rhythm</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Coordinate and run the People team's recurring cadence: all-hands, leadership meetings, quarterly planning cycles (OKRs), annual strategy planning, and offsites</li> <li>Implement a documented, repeatable People planning process that removes ad hoc coordination and reduces leader time spent on operations</li> <li>Partner with SVP People on headcount planning and forecasting: build scenarios, identify HC needs by function, and feed strategic planning cycles</li> <li>By Q1 2027: People team calendar and cadence runs with minimal SVP involvement</li> </ul> <h4><strong&g