Senior Manager, HR Modernization

Albertsons Companies • Pleasanton, CA

9h • $114,100 - $159,700

About The Position

This role is for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, focused on modernizing HR. The Senior Manager will lead a small team responsible for AI product, knowledge engineering, process optimization, and project/change management. These disciplines are critical for improving HR and the associate experience through faster answers, simpler processes, smarter tools, and successful change adoption. This is a builder role, not a maintainer role, requiring someone to write the playbook for HR modernization.

Requirements

• Experience running a PMO, transformation office, or continuous improvement function (typically 7+ years, with at least 2 leading people).
• Experience owning a product or process roadmap end-to-end, including shipping and measuring results.
• Allergic to busy work; instinct to question the existence of manual processes.
• Obsession with the end user, ensuring solutions meet actual needs.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and define processes.
• Experience leading people while also being hands-on with the work.
• Experience in consulting, tech product, PMO/transformation offices, or operations is preferred over traditional HR backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for AI-enabled HR tools, determining where investment matters most and turning associate needs into actionable backlogs and features.
• Design the future of AI agents across HR to create a coherent experience, partnering with the Tech Product team on product ownership boundaries.
• Own how HR knowledge is structured, governed, and fed into AI systems to ensure accurate answers.
• Identify and consolidate disparate sources of HR knowledge into a single source of truth.
• Identify manual HR processes that are targets for simplification, streamlining, or automation, considering variations due to collective bargaining agreements.
• Partner with Labor Relations and market HR teams to find standard, simpler ways to frame policy and practice.
• Run disciplined, lightweight project management across medium-to-large HR initiatives, including those outside of AI, knowledge, or process.
• Own the change management strategy to ensure real adoption of HR initiatives.
• Measure and report on the impact of HR modernization efforts, including improvements in AI tool accuracy, process efficiency, cost savings, and associate experience.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of earned wages before payday (via Stream partnership)
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay)
• Leaders invested in training, career growth and development
• Inclusive work environment
• Potential for quarterly bonus

What This Job Offers

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