Job Description:
About the Role
Cityblock Health is seeking a Director, People Strategy & Optimization to serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner within the Office of the Chief People Officer. This person will operate at the center of how the People function plans, communicates, and executes, helping translate strategy into action and ensuring alignment, momentum, and accountability across the organization.
This role spans several critical areas: serving as a strategic thought partner to the People Leadership Team, owning the development of executive level communications, including board and Talent and Compensation materials, using people analytics to surface insights that inform strategy and articulate impact to the business, identifying opportunities to strengthen and evolve how the People function operates, and driving accountability across the PLT and People org against clear, measurable goals.
This role is built for someone who can move fluidly between big-picture strategy and rigorous execution: someone who builds board-ready presentations with polish and precision, crafts brilliant insights leveraging people analytics to inform recommendations and decision-making, and can navigate complex organizational dynamics in service of the function's goals. This is a role for someone who earns trust through consistency and follow-through, not through seeking approval, and who holds themselves and others to a high bar. They are excellent project managers and able to lead independently, while collaborating across teams, influencing without authority.
What You'll Do
Act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the People Leadership Team, offering sound judgment on strategic, sensitive, and organizational matters
Help the People leadership team prioritize effectively, determining what requires broader leadership visibility versus what can be resolved at the team level
Support continuity and alignment across the People function, including representing key priorities and context in meetings and initiatives as needed
Build compelling, board- and executive-level presentations and materials, translating complex people data and strategy into clear, decision-ready narratives
Own the development and preparation of executive-level and org-wide communications, including Board Talent and Compensation Committee materials, partnering with Finance, Legal, and executive stakeholders to ensure materials are accurate, well-framed, and delivered on schedule
Anticipate questions and prepare supporting analyses and talking points ahead of executive and Board discussions, and track follow-up actions and commitments
Bring deep fluency in people analytics to inform strategy, clearly articulate impact and ROI to the business, track progress against goals, and surface insights proactively
Connect information and trends across People disciplines to surface patterns and insights that may not be visible within any single function
Assess and improve how the People function operates, including priorities, decision-making, and resource allocation, identifying opportunities to strengthen the operating model as Cityblock scales
Drive high-functioning capabilities across the People Leadership Team and broader People organization
Build credibility and influence outcomes across teams and functions through expertise, consistency, and clear communication
Anticipate and help resolve friction points across stakeholder groups in service of the function's goals
Set and hold the People leadership team accountable both day-to-day and strategically, big picture
Lead the team to design and deliver against clear, measurable goals, using strong SMART goal-setting and program management discipline
Manage complex, cross-functional programs and initiatives from strategy through execution, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
Deliver clear, direct feedback to peers and team members in service of high performance, comfortable holding a high bar even when it's not the…