Sr. Manager, People Experience & Onboarding

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

LifeStance Health Values

• Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.

• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

ROLE OVERVIEW 

The Senior Manager, People Experience & Onboarding, will serve as a strategic integrator across all phases of the employee lifecycle — from recruiting through onboarding, manager enablement, development, and retention. This role will act as the connective tissue across HR teams, ensuring systems, processes, change management, and insights are aligned to deliver a seamless, scalable people experience that drives engagement, performance, and retention. This leader will also directly manage the Onboarding team that supports both clinical and non-clinical employees from offer acceptance to day one. 

Reporting directly to the VP, People Experience, this leader will partner with Talent Acquisition (TA), HRBPs, and Learning to unify efforts, embed leading-indicator insights into decision-making, and enable cultural integration during periods of rapid growth and M&A. 

Compensation: $120,000 - 145,000/annually, plus annual bonus potential

LifeStance provides the compensation range and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. LifeStance reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Onboarding Leadership 

• Lead and develop a team of ~10 onboarding professionals responsible for ensuring a best-in-class experience for new hires across clinical and non-clinical roles. 

• Oversee onboarding operations from offer acceptance through day one, ensuring processes are seamless, compliant, and aligned to business needs. 

• Partner with internal HR Teams, hiring managers and departments that support clinical systems enablement to ensure a smooth handoff and coordinated new hire journey. 

Strategic Integration & Experience Design 

• Serve as the architect of an end-to-end people experience strategy, aligning TA, onboarding, learning, and HRBP practices. 

• Partner with TA and Onboarding leaders to ensure Workday Recruiting and Onboarding modules are fully leveraged and integrated. 

• Enable HR to work in a connected way while equipping leaders with a unified view of their teams and workforce health, so they can better manage performance, development, and engagement. 

Change Management & Scale for Growth 

• Lead enterprise change management efforts tied to TA, onboarding, HRBP transformation, and training, ensuring adoption and sustainability. 

• Build frameworks and toolkits to help leaders drive and embed change with their teams. 

• Ensure all new people programs and processes are d