Program Manager, Headcount Planning

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States; on-site

Salary: $200,000–$240,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds autonomous factories combining AI, software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing for aerospace and defense companies.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end headcount planning cycles, combining bottom-up business needs with top-down leadership plans.
• Partner with Engineering and Program leadership to translate program demand into role-level staffing requirements.
• Work with Finance to cost plans, reconcile them against budgets, and produce a single workforce forecast.
• Hand approved plans to Recruiting Operations as structured requisitions and manage recurring planning cadences.
• Coordinate program and assignment tagging across People Partners and Recruiting Leads to provide workforce visibility by program.
• Drive change management, communications, planning artifacts, risk tracking, and executive decision-making.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience across management consulting or a similarly structured problem-solving environment, including in-house program ownership.
• Strong stakeholder management, project management, executive communication, and cross-functional influence skills.
• Experience rolling out processes, managing resistance, and improving adoption through change management.
• Ability to build and pressure-test workforce models, reconcile plans with budgets, and explain financial variances.
• Previous experience running workforce or headcount planning in partnership with Finance.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States under ITAR requirements as a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or holder of the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth startup, manufacturing, defense, or similarly operationally intense environment.
• Experience supporting engineering or technical organizations.
• Hands-on familiarity with HRIS, ATS, and headcount planning tools such as ChartHop and Excel.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Equity participation.
• Relocation support may be available in certain situations based on business need.