Sr. Talent Inclusion Manager

Recruiters: Marlana Milligan (marly.milligan@appfolio.com) Human Resources Santa Barbara, California

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Description

AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.

We believe every new hire deserves a memorable welcome—and a smooth transition that sets them up for long-term success. As our Sr. Talent Inclusion Manager, you’ll lead transformative initiatives that drive performance across the entire employee lifecycle while championing our inclusive culture.

Your impact
  • Drive Strategic Innovation: Develop and execute comprehensive, data-informed talent strategies spanning recruitment, onboarding, development, retention, and exit processes. Identify key leverage points that optimize performance at every stage.
  • Deep Lifecycle Insight: Leverage your deep understanding of the employee lifecycle to analyze critical touchpoints, boost engagement, and drive actionable improvements.
  • Outstanding Communication & Storytelling: Transform complex talent and inclusion metrics into clear, compelling narratives and presentations that captivate diverse audiences—from frontline employees to senior leadership.
  • Optimize Talent Performance: Collaborate with the People Team and business leaders to integrate inclusive best practices into talent management processes, ensuring measurable outcomes at every stage of the employee journey.
  • Design and Deliver Impactful Training: Create and lead engaging training programs and workshops that enhance inclusion and equip our teams with essential skills to excel in their roles.
  • Enhance Systems and Processes: Apply a systematic, process-driven approach to identify and resolve challenges within our talent management systems, continuously refining practices based on lifecycle analytics.
  • Manage Employee Resource Groups & DEI Initiatives: Oversee our four employee resource groups, including managing budgets and supporting executive sponsors, to ensure alignment with our strategic DEI objectives. Coordinate planning and facilitation of all DEI events and celebrations that reinforce our inclusive culture and drive engagement.
  • Champion Our Culture: Embody our “Paddle as One” mindset by fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment that drives exceptional results across the organization.

 

Qualifications
  • Proven Expertise: 8-10+ years of progressive experience in talent management, inclusion, and performance optimization within dynamic, high-growth environments.
  • Lifecycle Mastery: A deep understanding of the employee lifecycle with the ability to pinpoint strategic leverage points across recruitment, onboarding, development, performance management, retention, and exit processes.
  • Analytical Excellence: Expertise in leveraging data and analytics to drive insights and shape strategic initiatives that optimize talent performance.
  • Training and Communication Mastery: Demonstrated success in designing and delivering training programs that resonate with diverse audiences, paired with exceptional storytelling skills that translate data into actionable insights.
  • Process-Driven Approach: A track record of implementing systematic solutions that enhance performance across the employee lifecycle.
  • Collaborative Leadership: A proactive, team-oriented leader with the ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and drive alignment across diverse teams.
Why You’ll Love It Here
  • Grow and Innovate: We empower our team members to own their potential and drive meaningful change at every stage of their journey.
  • Community and Collaboration: Join a vibrant team that works together—paddling as one—to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
  • Purpose and Impact: Your work will directly contribute to creating a more efficient, engaging, and inclusive workplace, ensuring every employee thrives.
If you’re ready to leverage your expertise to drive our inclusive, high-performing culture while managing impactful ERGs and DEI initiatives, we’d love to hear from you!
Location
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Compensation & Benefits
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $152,000-$190,000.
The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc.
Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
 
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About AppFolio

AppFolio is the technology leader powering the future of the real estate industry. Our innovative platform and trusted partnership enable our customers to connect communities, increase operational efficiency, and grow their business. For more information about AppFolio, visit appfolio.com.

Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.

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