People Partner and Program Manager

About Arc Institute

The Arc Institute is a new scientific institution that conducts curiosity-driven basic science and technology development to understand and treat complex human diseases. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Arc is an independent research organization founded on the belief that many important research programs will be enabled by new institutional models. Arc operates in partnership with Stanford University, UCSF, and UC Berkeley.

While the prevailing university research model has yielded many tremendous successes, we believe in the importance of institutional experimentation as a way to make progress. These include:

• Funding: Arc will fully fund Core Investigators’ (PIs’) research groups, liberating scientists from the typical constraints of project-based external grants.


• Technology: Biomedical research has become increasingly dependent on complex tooling. Arc Technology Centers develop, optimize and deploy rapidly advancing experimental and computational technologies in collaboration with Core Investigators. 


• Support: Arc aims to provide first-class support—operationally, financially and scientifically—that will enable scientists to pursue long-term high risk, high reward research that can meaningfully advance progress in disease cures, including neurodegeneration, cancer, and immune dysfunction.


• Culture: We believe that culture matters enormously in science and that excellence is difficult to sustain. We aim to create a culture that is focused on scientific curiosity, a deep commitment to truth, broad ambition, and selfless collaboration.

Arc has scaled to nearly 200 people. With $650M in committed funding and a state of the art new lab facility in Palo Alto, Arc will continue to grow quickly in the coming years.

About the position

As our People Partner and Program Manager, you'll lead key projects spanning talent development, performance management, employee engagement, and immigration programs. Working closely with leaders across People Operations, Total Rewards, University Relations, and Talent teams, you'll help shape and deliver programs that enhance our employee experience. This role reports to the People Partner Lead.

If you're passionate about continuous learning, have a curiosity for science, and thrive in collaborative environments, we want to talk to you. This is your chance to make a meaningful impact while being part of Arc's growth story.

About you

• Curious about science and motivated to learn about the science Arc is doing


• Collaborative partner with an enablement mindset 


• Exceptional project manager that can drive engagement in cross functional work


• Highly organized and flexible approach that can adapt to a wide variety of working styles


• Life long learner

In this position you will

• Provide project management support for special projects across the People team, including organizing team meetings and events


• Partner with leadership and the People team to plan and execute on our core People programs including but not limited to:




• Performance and rewards initiatives, including performance cycles, recognition programs, and benefits optimization


• Support employee engagement initiatives by helping coordinate surveys, analyzing results, and partnering with leadership to implement action plans


• Support the execution of talent development programs, including coordinating training sessions, tracking participation, and gathering feedback to improve program effectiveness


• Facilitate new manager onboarding and provide ongoing coaching support for people management skills


• Supporting Talent Acquisition programming including enablement, brand building, referral programs




• Support the People Partner team in: 




• Providing support to employees and managers navigating leave 


• Managing complex immigration cases


• Help integrate new labs into Arc by coordinating with University Relations and managing key transitions and communications across People team responsibilities


• Support managers, employees and people team with employee relations matters as needed


• Support in designing cross functional offsites and professional development events that create community and build culture across Arc's labs and Tech Centers

Requirements

• 5 years in related roles and 3 years in an HR generalist role


• Experience working on scaled People programs (performance management, employee engagement)


• Ability to build relationships work across a wide variety of styles


• Effective written and verbal communicator 


• Practical problem solver capable of managing complex issues to resolution


• Skilled project manager comfortable with stakeholder management, cascading communication and cross functional organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting or managing employee immigration cases and immigration vendor management


• Experience with Lattice, CultureAmp, HiBob