Program Manager, Enablement

Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:

As the Program Manager, People Enablement you will be responsible for designing, implementing and managing programs that enable Arc'teryx employees to do their best work. This role focuses on leading programs that will evolve, innovate and scale people programming for our employees globally. Your knowledge of program management, combined with your strategic thinking, strong partnership and communication skills will enable you to manage a portfolio of programs and business rhythms.

This role is primarily based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

The People & Culture Enablement and Experience team leads business management, project management, employee experiences and events. Through optimized programs, thoughtful experiences, and meaningful interactions and activations in our spaces, we create the conditions for teams and the business to thrive.

This team is the conduit between People & Culture experiences, programs and projects, and our cross‑functional partners – enabling growth, scaling our capabilities and activating our culture to achieve our business goals. We create and implement standard operating principles to ensure consistent experience for our global and regional employees. We work in close partnership with our cross‑functional partners within People & Culture, and across the organization.

• Designing, managing and optimizing scalable global people enablement programs.
• Facilitating cross‑functional collaboration to ensure programs meet diverse needs.
• Managing aspects of the P&C translation program and workflows by liaising with external vendors and our internal Brand Localization team, coordinating timelines and ensuring high‑quality delivery of multilingual content.
• Leading aspects of Arc’teryx’s corporate travel program, ensuring employees have a positive experience and business goals are met.
• Coordinate and communicate effectively with program partners, including cross‑functional teams and external vendors to ensure visibility, engagement and ongoing alignment.
• Managing the P&C Calendar, centralizing visibility into the work happening across the department, communicating to key partners and connecting into other calendar processes.
• Managing Enablement & Experience’s rhythms of business that enable the P&C department to meet its weekly, monthly and long‑term objectives.
• Championing process innovation and optimization within the People Enablement team to continuously evolve operational practices, tools, process and workflow.
• Managing end‑to‑end P&C projects by owning the intake process, including managing briefs, coordination of timelines across all stakeholders, and facilitating execution through to delivery across all P&C creative projects.
• Developing and managing operational project plans, roadboards & calendars specific to the programs that you are leading.
• Building and maintaining relationships with key partners across the department, organization and externals.

• Mapping the P&C team program and project load to support department resourcing in alignment with strategic objectives.
• Supporting department budgeting activities and reporting.
• Leading larger projects and new initiatives as part of our longer‑term roadmap.
• Working with cross‑functional partners and the global group People and Culture team on broader initiatives.

• You have 5+ years of experience in Program Management.
• You have a relentless attention to detail and the ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
• You have experience in leading programs or projects that work with creatives (agencies and freelancers), environmental design and in leading the development of bringing creative briefs to life.
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to provide insights and guide work across the department and business.
• You ideally have experience in People and Culture (Human Resources) related programming such as…