Director, People Data & Insights

The Clorox Company

1d • $145,900 - $360,700 • Remote

About The Position

The Director, People Data & Insights is a strategic leadership role responsible for transforming Clorox’s People data into a competitive advantage through high-impact insights, robust governance, and AI-ready data foundations. This role serves as the enterprise People Data Owner, accountable for the strategy, governance, and integrity of People data across all systems and use cases. The Director ensures that People data is trusted, connected, and scalable—enabling advanced analytics, powering AI capabilities, and underpinning critical enterprise transformations. Success in this role is defined by the ability to establish People data as a trusted, governed, and consistently leveraged asset across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will enable leadership to make scalable, data-driven decisions grounded in actionable insights, while ensuring that AI and automation capabilities are powered by high-quality, well-curated People data. This role will play a critical part in driving transformation programs that deliver measurable business outcomes, supported by strong and reliable data foundations. Ultimately, success means helping People& operate with a modern, scalable, and AI-ready data backbone that accelerates impact across the organization.

Requirements

• 10 plus years of experience and deep expertise in people analytics, workforce insights, and HR data
• 5 plus years of experience leading high-performing teams
• Technical fluency in analytics, data visualization, and data architecture concepts
• Deep understanding of how to structure data architecture, modeling, tools, and governance to accelerate data readiness for AI applications.
• Strong experience in enterprise data governance and data management at scale
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional transformation programs and data initiatives
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills
• High degree of judgment handling sensitive and confidential employee data

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing People Data & Insights team
• Oversee the enterprise employee listening strategy, including driving the strategic communications of survey themes to senior leadership and the broader organization
• Define and lead the enterprise People analytics strategy aligned to business priorities and People& transformation objectives
• Deliver actionable, executive-ready insights that inform workforce, talent, and organizational decisions
• Oversee development of enterprise dashboards, metrics, and predictive models (e.g., Talent Insights, workforce planning, TA effectiveness)
• Partner with HRBPs, COEs, and business leaders to embed data-driven decision making
• Serve as the single point of accountability for People data across the enterprise
• Establish, manage, and continuously evolve a comprehensive People data governance framework, including: Data ownership and stewardship model, Data quality standards and controls, Standardized definitions (metrics, KPIs, taxonomy), Data lineage and auditability
• Define and enforce system-of-record truth for core People data across platforms (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow)
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirements in partnership with IT, Security, and Legal
• Drive enterprise adoption of consistent, trusted People data standards to reduce fragmentation
• Lead AI readiness for People data, ensuring data is structured, accessible, and governed to support AI at scale
• Establish governance for AI-enabled use cases within People& (HR), including bias mitigation, transparency, and monitoring
• Build and maintain a curated People data and knowledge layer to support Copilot, agents, and self-service capabilities
• Define and track data readiness criteria required to scale AI across People&
• Lead data and insights workstreams for critical enterprise initiatives, including: Employee Experience Portal transformation, Job Architecture redesign, M&A activities/HCM data integration
• Define measurement frameworks, success metrics, and reporting for each initiative
• Ensure all transformation efforts are grounded in clean, consistent, and actionable People data
• Embed insights into program governance, decision-making, and value realization tracking
• Define the vision and roadmap for the People data and analytics ecosystem (Workday, ServiceNow HRSD, Microsoft Glint/Viva Insights, enterprise data warehouse)
• Partner with HR Technology to ensure scalable data architecture, pipelines, and models
• Oversee development of analytics products, including dashboards, predictive insights, and self-service tools
• Drive adoption of enterprise analytics tools and build data literacy across HR and business leaders
• Partner closely with: HR Technology (Workday, ServiceNow), HR COEs (TA, TM, Total Rewards, L&D), HRBPs and business leaders, IT, Security, and Finance
• Influence senior leaders on data strategy, governance, and insights priorities
• Embed a product-oriented, AI-enabled operating model where data and insights are integrated into end-to-end People services
• Act as a key leader in shaping a future-ready, AI-first People& function

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs
• Robust health plans
• Market-leading 401(k) program with a company match
• Flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location)
• Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits
• Eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed