People Experience Manager

Garners mission is to transform the healthcare economy delivering high-quality and affordable care for all.

We are fundamentally reimagining how healthcare works in the U.S. by partnering with employers to redesign healthcare benefits using clear incentives and powerful data-driven insights. Our approach guides employees to higher-quality lower-cost care creating a system that works better for everyone. Patients achieve better health outcomes employers spend healthcare dollars more effectively and physicians are rewarded for delivering exceptional care rather than performing more procedures.

Garner is one of the fastest-growing healthcare technology companies in the country. Our products are trusted by the most sophisticated employers and providers in the industry and we are building a team of talented mission-driven individuals who are motivated to make a meaningful impact on healthcare at scale.

About the role:

Were looking for an exceptional People Experience Manager to join our People Team and lead our Employee Experience and Facilities functions. This role is responsible for designing and scaling the programs environments and systems that enable Garners team to perform at the highest level. You will play a critical role in shaping a hybrid work experience that attracts top talent accelerates onboarding strengthens culture and enables employees to do the best work of their careers. This is a highly cross-functional high-impact role reporting to the Head of People with two direct reports.

Where you will work:

This role will be based in our New York City office (in the Financial District). You must be willing to work in the office at least 3 days per week on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday.

What you will do:

• Onboarding: Design and continuously improve a best-in-class onboarding experience that enables new hires to contribute meaningfully from Day 1
• Recognition & Milestones: Build and scale programs that make our employees feel valued and motivated to continue pushing boundaries and celebrate key moments across the employee journey
• Engagement & Social Infrastructure: Architect high-quality offsites events and social programs that strengthen relationships and foster collaboration
• Hybrid Work Experience: Define and operationalize ways of working that maximize efficiency and inclusion across in-person and remote teams
• Culture & Organizational Development: Partner with the Head of People to identify organizational gaps and design targeted programs that reinforce a high-performance feedback-driven culture
• Workplace Operations: Oversee office operations and manage the Office Manager to ensure a seamless safe and fulfilling in-office experience
• Vendor & Budget Management: Own vendor selection relationships and budgets across Facilities and Employee Experience to ensure scalable high-impact operations
• Real Estate Planning: Partner with Finance and IT to proactively plan and execute on office expansion needs as headcount scales rapidly

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience across both startups and mature companies including at least 2 years leading an Employee Experience function and at least 1 year leading a Facilities function
• Ability to simultaneously manage a wide variety of both strategic and operational workstreams
• Propensity to think in terms of systems always seeing the full picture and designing for scale
• Strong analytical and technical abilities including proficiency in Google Sheets and Claude Code (or similar)
• Proven ability to build and lead a high-impact team setting a high bar for execution and investing in the growth of their people
• Deep belief that employee experience should directly enable business performance
• A desire to be a part of a high-performing mission-driven team that operates with intense urgency a strong sense of individual accountability and a commitment to authentic feedback

This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company in a transformative role helping shape the future of healthcare.

Please note: we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Compensation Transparency:

The target base compensation range for this position is $150000-$180000. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors including qualifications skills and applicable addition to base compensation this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans including but not limited to: flexible PTO Medical/Dental/Vision plan options 401(k) with company match flexible spending accounts Teladoc Health and more.