Program Manager (Global Workforce Strategy, Contract)

• As Function Health expands globally, with active hiring in LATAM, momentum in the UK, and plans for further international growth, we are establishing a strategic foundation to support our international workforce. To ensure long-term success, we are proactively designing a scalable, compliant, and optimized global operating model
• We are seeking a contractor to lead our global workforce strategy workstream. In this role, you will serve as the project manager and strategic connective tissue across People, Legal, Finance, Tax, and business leadership
• You will build comprehensive cost-benefit analyses to identify the optimal engagement model for each market, drive key strategic decisions to closure, and establish a clear, repeatable framework that empowers our team to scale sustainably for the future
• This is a hands-on delivery role, not an advisory one. Success looks like decisions made, guardrails published, and a repeatable playbook in place by the end of the engagement
• Own the global workforce strategy work stream end to end - scope, plan, milestones, risks, and status reporting to leadership
• Build a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis across our international footprint, covering contractor-to-EOR conversions, new EOR implementations, and the threshold at which standing up a legal entity is the better long-term investment
• Develop a scalable decision framework for choosing between contractor, EOR, and entity models, weighted for cost, compliance risk, speed, candidate experience, and long-term operating complexity
• Drive cross-functional alignment across People, Legal, Finance, Tax, and business leaders - surfacing tradeoffs, forcing the open questions, and getting to a decision rather than another meeting
• Support UK expansion, including evaluation and potential entity creation, on a timeline that lands before year-end
• Partner with engineering leadership on LATAM hiring plans, giving them the data and framework to evaluate tradeoffs before commitments are made
• Define clear guardrails and operating principles for contractor engagements including eligibility for employee programs, benefits, and equity
• Establish lightweight governance: intake process, decision rights, escalation path, and turnaround expectations, so requests stop being handled reactively
• Document everything and run a clean handoff - playbooks, templates, and decision logs that outlast the engagement
• Duration: suggested 6 months, with an option to extend. Hours: 20-30 per week

Benefits

• 401k Match
• Health Insurance
• Choose your own holidays- Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across senior stakeholders without formal authority
• Direct experience working with LATAM and the UK markets
• Hands-on experience with EOR platforms and implementations, contractor engagement models, and the economics and mechanics of establishing legal entities in a new market
• Crisp written communication; comfortable writing the exec memo and the operating doc with equal quality
• 7+ years in program or project management with direct ownership of international workforce, global mobility and expansion, or global HR operations initiatives
• Working knowledge of the risk landscape: worker classification, permanent establishment, payroll and employment tax, work authorization, benefits, and statutory requirements
• Strong financial modeling instincts. Able to build a defensible fully-loaded cost comparison across models and markets, and explain it to a CFO
• Ability to move fast in an ambiguous, high-growth environment and bring structure without adding bureaucracy
• Familiarity with equity administration across contractor and EOR populations
• Prior work at a company scaling from first international hires to a multi-entity footprint
• Experience in healthcare or another regulated industry