Central Planning Lead, Copilot

## About the role - Maintain the planning program and its deliverables - Own the recurring deliverables that keep the planning program on track across the 12-week Cycle, from planning artifacts and trackers to status rollups for leadership. - Serve as the primary liaison between engineering DRIs and the leadership team, translating leadership priorities into clear asks for teams and bringing team realities and risks back up to leaders. - Keep the planning calendar and Cycle checkpoints coordinated with the broader PMO so meetups, reviews, replanning, and end-of-cycle activities land on time. - Ensure notes, decisions, and action items are captured, then distribute a concise summary with decisions made, action owners, and deadlines. - Improve the process and troubleshoot - Improve the day-to-day mechanics of the planning program: streamline how reviews, follow-ups, and data collection run, and apply better tooling and automation, including AI-assisted approaches where they add accuracy or save time. - Troubleshoot when things are not working, diagnose the root cause, and put durable fixes in place, escalating systemic or methodology-level changes to the PMO. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (e.g., Liberal Arts, Business Administration, Management, Computer Science) AND 6+ years experience in financial management, business planning, operations management, strategy, project management, human resources, or business-related roles OR equivalent experience. - Demonstrated experience running recurring meetings or reviews end to end: agenda, facilitation, decisions, documentation, and follow-up. - Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to hold senior stakeholders accountable to commitments. - Experience acting as a liaison between execution teams and senior leadership in a fast-moving organization. - Working knowledge of org design or team design, and the ability to analyze whether teams are staffed and structured to succeed. - Experience supporting a Program Management Office or a comparable central planning, resourcing, or delivery-excellence function. - Comfort working with resourcing and allocation data, including spotting gaps, conflicts, and structural risks. - Track record of driving process improvement and troubleshooting operational breakdowns. - Familiarity with software or platform release cycles, milestone-based delivery, and dependency management. - Strong bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, and a habit of getting ahead of problems before they become blockers. ## Nice to have - (None listed in the original text) ## What we offer - (None listed in the original text) ## About us - (None listed in the original text)