Program Manager, People & Culture PMO

Career-defining. Life-changing.  At iRhythm, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills and your career while impacting the lives of people around the world. iRhythm is shaping a future where everyone, everywhere can access the best possible cardiac health solutions. Every day, we collaborate, create, and constantly reimagine what’s possible. We think big and move fast, driven by our commitment to put patients first and improve lives. We need builders like you. Curious and innovative problem solvers looking for the chance to meaningfully shape the future of cardiac health, our company, and your career About This Role: About This Role: The Program Manager, People & Culture PMO will establish and lead the People & Culture Project Management Office, driving governance, execution excellence, and strategic portfolio management across HR initiatives globally. This role will maintain visibility and accountability across the People & Culture project portfolio, ensure resources are aligned to the highest-priority initiatives, proactively manage risks and issues, and measure business value through defined outcomes and return on investment. The role will also serve as a center of excellence for project management practices, coaching HR practitioners and business leads while partnering closely with the Enterprise PMO to align with established governance standards, methodologies, and reporting practices. Ability to leverage GenAI tools to support program management tasks and governance. In addition to technology and transformation projects, the PMO will oversee operational improvement initiatives delivered in partnership with Process Excellence and other cross-functional teams. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: PMO Leadership & Governance Establish and mature the People & Culture PMO operating model, governance framework, and portfolio management processes. Develop a consistent project intake, prioritization, approval, and monitoring process for HR initiatives. Lead regular governance reviews of strategic projects, ensuring executive visibility into status, risks, dependencies, and key decisions. Facilitate monthly and quarterly portfolio reviews with People & Culture leadership. Ensure projects align with organizational priorities, strategic goals, and available capacity. Partner with Enterprise PMO leaders to adopt and maintain enterprise project management standards, templates, methodologies, and reporting requirements. Portfolio Management Manage the People & Culture project portfolio, including HR Technology, Talent, Total Rewards, Employee Experience, Workforce Management, AI, Compliance, and operational excellence initiatives. Maintain portfolio-level visibility into investment decisions, timelines, interdependencies, and business outcomes. Support executive decision-making through portfolio analytics and reporting. Establish project prioritization frameworks to ensure resources focus on initiatives delivering the highest business value. Resource & Capacity Management Develop and maintain resource planning processes across People & Culture functions. Track demand versus capacity across project teams and improvement initiatives. Identify resource constraints, conflicts, and allocation risks. Partner with leaders to optimize utilization, sequencing, and timing of work. Provide leadership with workforce and project capacity insights to support planning decisions. Project Oversight & Delivery Excellence Oversee project status reporting standards across all People & Culture initiatives. Lead portfolio-level risk, issue, assumption, and dependency management. Drive consistent use of project management disciplines across projects. Ensure projects maintain clear scope, milestones, success metrics, and accountability. Partner with project teams to proactively resolve delivery challenges.

Realization & Business Value Establish business case development standards for strategic initiatives. Define and track project