Arcteryx.Com11d ago

Director, Employee Experiences

North Vancouver, BC (Corporate)Full-timeexecutive

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Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX: As the Director, Employee Experiences, you are accountable for building, leading,

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As the Director, Employee Experiences, you are accountable for building, leading, and executing an end-to-end employee experience strategy that ignites our culture and engages our people. You’ll manage a portfolio of employee events and experiential programs ensuring every moment reflects our culture, values, and commitment to being an inclusive and transformative place to work for all. Your passion and creativity for inclusively engaging, inspiring, planning, and activating will show up across all of our employee experiences.

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

The Global People & Culture Enablement and Experience team leads business management, project management, employee experiences, and internal events. Through thoughtful experiences, impactful meetings, meaningful interactions, and activations in our spaces, we operate the People & Culture department and 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 a 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.

Leading the strategic planning, vision and multi-year roadmap for Arc’teryx employee experiences, programs and events across the business
Delivering a portfolio of annual large-scale events, experiences and programs including Leadership Summit, Arc’Social, Winter Celebration, Arc’Adventure, Purpose & Values Awards
Designing a large-scale creative vision, connecting brand values and concepts to elevate our employee experiences
Championing the company’s purpose and values, and the Arc’teryx Leadership Code by embedding them into programs, initiatives and experiences
Elevating storytelling through cross-functional partnership with Communications, Brand, Employer Brand and Impact teams to highlight employee stories and foster connection
Leading the planning and delivery of employee events to fuel our culture of celebration, recognition and connection
Leveraging our communication platforms as social tools to connect our global employee community
Leading and coaching your team with an inclusive lens, and a passion for strengths-based people development
Consulting with Business function leaders to design and deliver solutions that support the Employee Experiences and events roadmap
Partnering with 3rd party vendors to design and deliver solutions that support the Employee Experiences and events roadmap
Partnering with regional teams to provide guidance and playbooks in support of regional employee experiences
Collaborating with Brand and Community Marketing teams to create a cohesive, branded feel for all Arc’teryx events

Staying connected to industry trends, inspiration and insights for employee engagement and experiences
Managing long-term planning, contracts, calendaring and partnerships
Developing and pitching new concepts for future employee experiences and programs

Identifying opportunities and evolving other employee experience events and recognition programs, as needed
Exploring how technology can create efficiencies in our experiential workstreams
Partnering in the design of regional experiences

You have 10+ years of event management experience, along with a post-secondary diploma or certification in Event Management, Communications, Project Management, Marketing or equivalent experience in lieu
You are incredibly organized with an eye for detail and accuracy
You are an empathetic and proactive communicator, and care about engaging people in a inclusive manner
You have exceptional presentation, storytelling, marketing and communication skills
You have a strong portfolio of designing and delivering culture and engagement programs at scale
You have a deep understanding of employee engagement principles, behavioral insights, and experience design
You have a creative, brand-forward mindset with a passion for crafting memorable moments
You activate teams around you through energizing and inspiring experiential excellence
You are open and approachable with a collaborative, team-centric mentality
You consistently evaluate and evolve existing processes, and inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement within your team
You have a highly collaborative working style and have a demonstrated ability to build cross-functional relationships
You establish systems and programs to ensure projects, events, and processes are running smoothly
You have a demonstrated ability to maintain professionalism in dealing with sensitive and confidential information
You effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
You embrace a growth mindset and are passionate about learning and growing in your role
You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
You believe in the transformational power of nature and getting outside
You inspire breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement
You seek the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions, with an unwavering commitment to do what is right
Your passion for your work is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it