People & Culture Program Manager

Join Hippocratic AI as a People & Culture Program Manager, a senior individual contributor role focused on embedding our leadership principles into our hiring and performance processes. You will work closely with founders and senior leaders to operationalize our values and create a culture that prioritizes safety, patient outcomes, equal access, creativity, and humanity. This role requires strong influence without authority skills, a deep understanding of hiring and performance systems, and a genuine alignment with our mission in healthcare AI.

• Steward and operationalize the company's leadership principles, translating them into observable behaviors and decision criteria for hiring and evaluation.
• Infuse the leadership principles throughout the hiring and performance review processes, ensuring consistency and fairness in assessments.
• Drive the "Voice of Hippocratic AI" process, establishing a listening engine to measure and report on the company's culture and employee experiences.
• A current, sophisticated grasp of culture-add vs. culture-fit hiring and concrete methods for mitigating affinity bias in selection and evaluation
• Hiring-systems depth. Fluency in structured interviewing, rubric design, interviewer calibration, and debrief discipline — and how to roll these out at scale
• Judgment and discretion for high-trust work directly with founders/senior leaders, including delivering candid upward feedback
• Understanding of performance/promotion systems — how evaluation, feedback, and promotion processes shape behavior, and how to embed values into them
• Performance and review fluency. Understanding of how evaluation, promotion, and feedback systems shape behavior, and how to embed values into them
• Demonstrated experience influencing without authority — a track record of moving teams, leaders, and processes you didn't formally own, through credibility and relationship-building rather than org-chart power (called out as "the defining competency of this role")
• Judgment and discretion. Comfort working closely with founders and senior leaders on sensitive, high-trust work, and delivering candid feedback upward
• Structured interviewing fluency — rubric design, interviewer calibration, bar-raiser mechanisms, and debrief discipline, and knowing how to scale these
• Listening and insight. Ability to design employee-listening mechanisms and translate qualitative and quantitative signal into action
• Experience operationalizing values or leadership principles — turning abstract belief statements into observable, assessable behaviors, ideally in a fast-growth company
• Influence without authority. A demonstrated track record of moving teams, leaders, and processes you did not formally own — through credibility, frameworks, and relationships
• Experience in an organization of comparable scale/growth stage to Hippocratic AI's current stage
• Culture and values architecture. Experience operationalizing existing values or leadership principles — turning belief statements into observable, assessable behaviors — ideally during a period of growth
• Ability to design employee-listening programs (surveys, sensing sessions, focus groups) and convert that signal into action leadership will actually use
• Bias-aware design. A sophisticated, current understanding of culture-add hiring and how to mitigate affinity bias in selection and evaluation
• Mission alignment. Genuine resonance with a safety-first, “Do No Harm” mission in healthcare AI
• Genuine mission alignment with a safety-first "Do No Harm" healthcare AI mission
• Bachelor's Degree required
• 8+ years of experience in Program Management within People/HR organizations
• Prior experience specifically translating principles across both hiring AND performance/review systems (not just one)
• Comfort operating with no direct reports or line authority — candidates who've thrived in similarly structural, staff-level IC roles will likely map best here