Principal Talent Management Partner

About Us: Live experiences help people cross today’s digital divide and focus on what truly connects us – the here, the now, this once-in-a-lifetime moment that’s bringing us together. To fulfill Gametime’s mission of uniting the world through shared experiences, we make it easy for people to discover and access the live experiences that matter most.   With platforms on iOS, Android, mobile web and desktop supporting more than 60,000 events across the US and Canada, we are reimagining the event ticket industry in order to move at the speed of life.

The Role

As our Senior IC, Talent & Performance Architecture, you won't just run programs—you'll build the very infrastructure that defines our high-performance culture at Gametime. You hold the company-wide design authority for our most critical people initiatives, translating our talent philosophy into simple, scalable, and impactful solutions for our remote workforce.

Key Responsibilities

Performance Management

• Own and lead all aspects of performance management, including policy, timelines, tools, enablement, calibration, and post-cycle action planning.
• Drive fairness and quality through consistent application of rating guidance and promotion criteria.
  
  

Talent Reviews & Succession Planning

• Run quarterly and biannual talent reviews, identifying bench strength and risks for critical roles.
• Maintain succession slates and development plans in collaboration with leadership.
  
  

Career Architecture

• Maintain role profiles, levels, and competencies aligned to Gametime’s culture.
• Ensure job architecture supports hiring, development, and compensation practices; partner with Total Rewards on Radford alignment.
  
  

Manager Enablement

• Build and deliver playbooks, workshops, and toolkits to raise managerial capability in feedback, coaching, and performance conversations.
• Track adoption and effectiveness through feedback and success metrics.
  
  

Internal Mobility & Development

• Standardize frameworks for individual development plans, mentorship, and stretch assignments.
• Partner with business leaders to support internal pipelines for critical roles.
  
  

Attraction, Selection & Onboarding Partnership

• Partner with Talent Acquisition to align interview practices with competencies.
• Support bar-raising hiring and onboarding experiences.
  
  

Engagement & Retention Linkage

• Use engagement survey data to inform talent programs and manager development.
• Identify retention risks and recommend interventions.
  
  

Workforce Planning

• Collaborate with FP&A and Talent Acquisition on headcount planning, succession, and internal movement strategy.
  
  

Talent Analytics

• Build and maintain dashboards that track performance cycle health, promotion velocity, internal mobility, and adverse impact.
  
  

Systems & Tooling

• Act as product owner for talent platforms. Oversee configuration, integrations, and usability of tools supporting performance, engagement, and development.
  
  

Change Management & Communication

• Create executive-level narratives, manager enablement kits, FAQs, and company-wide communications to support program launches and change efforts.

AI Technology

 

• Comfortable leveraging AI tooling to streamline cycles (feedback quality checks, calibration signal surfacing, skills inference for successors).
• Evaluates, adopts, and operationalizes AI within talent systems; sets guardrails for bias, fairness, and privacy.
• Partners with People Analytics to run AI-assisted insights (e.g., promotion velocity variance, mobility predictors) and convert to action.

Key Competencies

Technical Skills

• Expertise in performance management, competency models, and Radford leveling.
• Advanced spreadsheet and analytics capabilities; experience with HRIS, performance, engagement, and LMS systems.
  
  

Interpersonal Skills

• Strong facilitation and communication skills, including executive presence.
• Skilled in guiding calibrations and cross-functional alignment.
  
  

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinking with ability to infl