People Analytics Enablement Leader

Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking a Leader of People Analytics (PA) Enablement to lead the team responsible for the semantic, governance, data, and adoption foundations that make workforce insights trusted, scalable, and decision-ready across the enterprise.
Reporting to the People Analytics Leader, this role carries high accountability for co-architecting and executing the People Analytics Enablement and BI Strategy in partnership with PA leadership, Strategy & Enablement peers, and IT. People Analytics and IT are co-accountable for BI Strategy & Enablement; this role turns that direction into scalable semantic models, metric definitions, certified data products, advanced analytics enablement, and insight delivery that are pivotal to the broader HR Strategy & Enablement organization’s success.
What You’ll Do
Lead Strategy Execution and Prioritization
Co-architect and execute the People Analytics Enablement and BI Strategy with the PA Leadership Team and IT under PA/IT co-accountability, aligning to business priorities, HR transformation, the PA-IT operating model, and the broader HR Strategy & Enablement agenda
Translate strategy into priorities, business requirements, governed products, semantic foundations, adoption practices, standards, reusable assets, and measurable outcomes
Enable People Analytics as a core tenet of HR Strategy & Enablement by ensuring data, insights, semantic foundations, and analytics enablement are embedded into how HR strategies are designed, prioritized, deployed, and measured
Enable Data, Semantic, and Analytics Foundations
Lead the PA BI team accountable for trusted workforce meaning, semantic models, certified data products, BI assets, and advanced analytics capabilities
Translate workforce data into PA-ready logic, joins, point-in-time logic, derived attributes, analytical features, and domain validation
Enable consultants, analysts, and advanced analytics teams with analysis-ready data models, certified datasets, semantic definitions, and analytical features
Govern common business vocabulary, KPIs, dimensions, hierarchies, ontology, certification, and versioning to create a trusted source of truth
Manage Demand, Governance, Adoption, and Semantic Enablement
Adopt and improve the People Analytics operating model for intake, prioritization, portfolio and capacity management, governance, decision rights, and success measures
Move approved PA demand through a disciplined backlog and governance process that balances sponsorship, capacity, decision rights, standards, and readiness
Drive adoption so analytics moves from available to used in decisions, supported by clear narratives, embedded guidance, and practical data literacy
Enable the semantic layer so agents, workflows, BI tools, and decision processes can leverage common language, trusted workforce data, and consistent metric definitions curated by this team
Translate business definitions, journey context, and moments that matter into reusable semantic assets and patterns that scale across BI tools, AI-enabled workflows, and embedded decision processes
Strengthen Data Foundations and Partnership
Partner with IT, PA, and Strategy & Enablement to strengthen governance, quality, definitions, handoffs, and operating routines across the data pipeline
Represent PA ownership for PA Silver prototyping, semantic governance, Gold products, BI model enablement, AI/agent access, ML features, APIs, self-service data foundations, and advanced analytics data model enablement
Connect workforce, experience, operational, journey, and organizational data to support lifecycle, journey-level, and enterprise decision-making
Experience
What We’re Looking For
12+ years in People Analytics, HR analytics enablement, enterprise analytics, data product, BI, or analytics platform leadership
5+ years leading teams across analytics, enablement, data, product, semantic modeling, BI, or platform functions
Proven success scaling governed analytics with the latest technologies, BI strategy, semantic models, data foundations, and insight delivery in complex enterprise environments
Expertise
Strong understanding of employee lifecycle, HR journeys, workforce planning, talent strategy, and HR decision-making moments
Deep familiarity with analytics operating models, data-as-a-product, semantic governance, BI strategy execution, insight delivery foundations, and platform-enabled analytics
Knowledge of data governance, integration, metric certification, data quality, business validation, workforce data models, and consumption-ready data products
Skills
Enterprise and systems thinking
Portfolio, prioritization, and capacity leadership
BI strategy execution, semantic enablement, metric governance, and analytics adoption
Executive communication, influence, and change leadership
Ability to translate complex analytics ecosystems into clear, trusted, usable decision support
Why This Role Matters
This role turns trusted workforce data into real decisions and real actions by translating PA and IT’s BI Strategy & Enablement accountability into governed products, semantic foundations, team execution, and adoption practices that make workforce insights trusted and usable at scale.
Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.
The salary range for this role is (Position $178,800 and $273,200 from Pay Transparency Posting Salary Ranges). The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
Benefits:
Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc). This role is based remotely, but if the selected candidate lives within a specific mile radius of a GM hub, they will be expected to report to the location three times a week {or other frequency dictated by your manager}. The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.
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