{"id":1337902,"url":"https://alion.io/job/safe-software-director-employee-workplace-experience","title":"Director, Employee & Workplace Experience","company":{"id":1760170,"name":"Safe Software","domain":"safe.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/safe-com","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":152000,"max":173000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":122348},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-19T23:07:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-19","last_verified_at":"2026-10-04T00:11:43Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":45,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":45},"description":"Safe Software is looking for a Director, Employee & Workplace Experience to join our People & Culture team. As Director, Employee & Workplace Experience, you will build and own the function that makes life at Safe the kind of experience people write about on Glassdoor, talk about in interviews, and remember at their retirement party.\nThis is a player-coach Director role reporting directly to the Chief People Officer. You will own both strategy and execution - setting the vision, building the programs, running the operations, and measuring what matters. You will partner closely with Marketing, the HRBPs, and the executive team, and you will lead a small team spanning employee experience, workplace, and facilities. This is not a support role. You will be the CPO’s right hand on anything that touches culture, belonging, and the story we tell about working here. We have an immediate opening and are excited to find the right candidate to join our team.\nAbout the Team\nSafe Software builds FME - the data integration platform trusted by 25,000+ organizations in over 100 countries. We are profitable, PE-backed, and on a clear path to $250M ARR. Our team of 350+ Safers works across Canada, the US, and a growing EMEA footprint.\nWe have strong culture bones: a strong Glassdoor rating, a set of values Safers genuinely live, and a Day 1 Mindset that keeps us moving fast. What we have built is good. What comes next has to be intentional - and this role is where that intention gets designed, owned, and measured.\nWhy This Role, Why Now\nThe best employee experiences in the world share one thing: they treat the employee journey like a product. Every touchpoint is designed. Every milestone is felt. Culture isn’t a slide in an all-hands; it’s what happens in the first week, the first review, the first moment someone feels like they belong.\nSafe is ready to build that - not because we have a problem, but because we have an opportunity. The connective tissue that keeps a company of 350 people feeling like a team is not accidental. It gets built by someone. Specifically, the gaps this role closes:\nWe are growing globally, and culture does not travel on its own - it has to be planted, tended, and measured.\n\nInternal communications has no single owner, no cadence, and no voice. At 350 people across multiple countries, that is a risk.\n\nOur employer brand is passive, which makes every senior hire harder and more expensive than it needs to be.\n\nOnboarding is a logistics exercise rather than an experience. Day 1 should feel like the best decision a new Safer ever made.\n\nDEI has no strategy, no owner, and no reporting - both a risk and a missed opportunity.\n\nWhat You’ll Be Doing\nAs Director, Employee & Workplace Experience, you will:\nEmployee Experience Architecture\nOwn the employee lifecycle as a product, from offer-accept to exit, with intentional design at every stage.\n\nRedesign Day 1 and the 30/60/90-day onboarding journey with the rigor of a customer onboarding playbook: clear outcomes, emotional arc, and measurable engagement.\n\nBuild the recognition, milestone, and belonging programs that make Safers feel seen, not just compensated.\n\nLead the Fun Committee, hybrid working culture, and all life@Safe programming with a community-first rather than perks-first mindset.\n\nUse data to lead: eNPS, Culture Guard, pulse surveys, and engagement trends tracked on cadence, not on demand.\n\nInternal Communications\nBuild and own Safe’s internal communications strategy - the cadence, channels, voice, and Safers-first protocol.\n\nTranslate leadership decisions, strategy shifts, and company milestones into clear, engaging, human messaging with no corporate speak.\n\nPartner with the executive team to ensure every major announcement lands with context, not just content.\n\nDesign communications infrastructure that scales as we grow: all-hands rhythm, async comms standards, and the editorial calendar for Safers.\n\nEmployer Brand and EVP\nDefine and embed Safe’s Employer Value Proposition - the story we tell about what it is really like to work here.\n\nOwn Glassdoor, LinkedIn Life, and all candidate-facing culture content in partnership with Marketing.\n\nBuild employer brand infrastructure ahead of EMEA and US hiring scale, so culture is exported intentionally rather than accidentally.\n\nTurn our Glassdoor score from a passive asset into an active recruiting tool.\n\nDEI Strategy\nBuild Safe’s DEI strategy from the ground up: goals, programs, ERGs, and reporting cadence.\n\nEnsure equity is embedded in people processes rather than bolted on, partnering with People Ops and the HRBPs to make it structural, not symbolic.\n\nReport quarterly to leadership and annually to the board.\n\nWorkplace and Physical Experience\nOwn the physical environment as part of the employee experience, with Surrey HQ setting the cultural standard for all Safe offices.\n\nDirectly manage the Facilities Manager and the events and workplace program.\n\nLead the events strategy: all-hands, offsites, global moments, and the cultural calendar.\n\nQualifications, Skills, and Competencies\nSafers come from a variety of backgrounds with a diversity in skills and knowledge. That said, we find that those who are most successful in this role have experience with the following areas.\nRequired Skills:\nYou have spent 8+ years obsessing over how people feel at key moments whether those people were customers, users, or teammates. You have built onboarding, culture, or experience programmes from scratch and you can show the outcomes, not just the process.\n\nYou think like a product designer, working in journey maps, personas, and feedback loops.\n\nYou have run internal communications with real editorial discipline.\n\nYou have defined or significantly evolved an Employer Value Proposition.\n\nYou have events or culture programming experience.\n\nYou use data fluently - eNPS, pulse surveys, and engagement metrics are your native language.\n\nYou have managed physical workplace or facilities at a growing company.\n\nYou can influence a leadership team without a mandate; you earn the room.\n\nNice to Have:\nExperience at a global or multi-site company.\n\nExperience partnering with Marketing on brand campaigns.\n\nCommunity-building or ERG program experience.\n\nA background in change management.\n\nExperience leading DEI initiatives that produced measurable, not performative, outcomes.\n\nMost importantly: you believe employee experience is not a cost centre but a competitive advantage - and you are done working for organizations that haven’t figured that out yet.\n\nWhat You Can Expect\nWhen you choose a career with Safe Software, you’re also choosing…\nMeaningful Work: Make a profound impact across our business, workplace and data integration product.\n\nA Supportive Environment: Feel empowered to share your ideas and implement them with high autonomy and team support.\n\nSocial Responsibility: Become part of a team that finds meaningful ways to give back. Take paid time off to volunteer for one of our Safe-organized opportunities that align with our core community initiatives.\n\nLearning & Career Development: We believe in your continuous learning and growth. Take advantage of an annual learning budget and training programs paid for by Safe.\n\nFlexible Working Hours: Flexible and remote-friendly work arrangements to fit your lifestyle. Work when you want, and how you want to.\n\nWork-Life Balance: There's no place for burnout at Safe. Maintain a healthy balance of your personal and work life without splitting yourself in two. Enjoy 3 weeks of vacation to recharge, plus an additional paid 6 seasonal days off per year.\n\nHealth & Wellness: Extended health, dental, health or lifestyle spending, and counseling benefits from day 1. That’s right, no waiting period.\n\nFamily is important: We are dedicated to supporting our employees through parenthood and offer a Parental Leave Top-Up Program for new parents through childbirth or adoption.\n\nShared Success: Share in Safe’s success with our bi-annual profit sharing and RRSP/TFSA matching program.\n\nAn Accessible Commute: Regardless of your commute method, we’re located close to public transit, and provide complimentary parking and bike storage for our team!\n\nAbout Safe Software\nSafe Software transforms organizations with FME, the only All-Data Any-AI Enterprise Integration Platform connecting all your data, anywhere, at any velocity.\nWith over 30 years of expertise and 25,000+ enterprise customers across 125+ countries, we simplify your data journey, wherever it leads.\nFounded in 1993, Safe is headquartered in Surrey, BC with over 300 team members and counting. We’re always looking for talented individuals with diverse backgrounds who are determined to learn and grow. Are you ready to join the team?\nOur Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nSafe Software is an equal opportunity employer and we truly believe that innovation and strength begin with diversity and inclusion.\nWe welcome all candidates regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, ability, disability, national or ethnic origin, political belief, religion, or family status.\nShould you require accommodations during the recruitment process, please contact .\nNotice Regarding Use of Automated Tools in Hiring\nAt Safe Software, we use automated tools to help us process applications and identify qualified candidates. These tools may assist in screening resumes and summarizing interview content based on the information you provide. This helps our team review applications efficiently while ensuring every candidate is considered based on the requirements of the role.\nPlease be assured that the final hiring decision is always made by a member of our team. For more information on how we protect your privacy, please see our policy. 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