Employee Engagement Lead

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Own the annual HQ experience plan, design on-site engagement activities, and strengthen belonging and culture through experiences.
- Own the full candidate-to-employee transition experience, improving onboarding consistency, warmth, clarity, and early integration.
- Identify and enhance priority employee journey touchpoints across the employee lifecycle in partnership with HR COEs.
- Develop and leverage employee experience metrics, feedback, participation data, and sentiment insights to guide improvements.
- Align and influence partners to co-design and implement employee experience improvements.
- Plan and deliver employee-facing programs, events, and experience improvements end-to-end.
- Facilitate journey mapping and apply design thinking methodologies to improve employee experiences.
- Manage intake governance, categorize requests, establish priorities, and maintain clear work plans and boundaries.

Key Responsibilities:

Headquarters Experience and Belonging

- Develop and maintain an annual headquarters experience plan for Tysons, VA headquarters.

- Design and execute meaningful on-site events, experiences, and activities that promote connection, engagement, belonging, and culture.

- Create opportunities for cross-functional connection and community-building.

- Reinforce organizational culture, values, and priorities through employee experiences.

- Use feedback and participation data to continuously improve headquarters programming.

Onboarding Journey and New Hire Experience

- Own the employee experience from accepted offer through early new hire integration.

- Map and improve the onboarding journey, with emphasis on the key moments that matter for new hires.

- Partner with Talent Acquisition, HRBPs, managers, Learning, Communications, HRIS, and other stakeholders to improve consistency, warmth, clarity, and ease across onboarding.

- Capture new hire feedback and use insights to reduce friction and improve the new hire experience.

- Help new employees feel welcomed, connected, prepared, and confident as they transition into the organization.

Employee Lifecycle Experience Design

- Serve as an internal consultant on employee experience design.

- Partner with HR Centers of Excellence to improve priority employee lifecycle moments.

- Support journey mapping and experience improvement efforts across selected lifecycle touchpoints.

- Bring an employee-centered lens to HR programs and processes.

- Use employee feedback and data to identify opportunities for improvement, in partnership with the Employee Listening team.

- Influence enhancements across recognition, learning, career development, manager enablement, culture, and related lifecycle areas.

Experience Insights, Measurement, and Storytelling

- Develop a practical employee experience scorecard that connects activity, feedback, insights, and business relevance.

- Measure headquarters experience, onboarding journey, and lifecycle...