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# Head of Workforce Planning & Go-to-Market Strategy at Visier Solutions Inc

- **Company:** Visier Solutions Inc
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/visiersolutionsinc/jobs/4699551006

## Job description

Visier is the global leader in Workforce Intelligence that powers every people decision. We bring Workforce AI to life for HR departments through our award-winning, agentic AI technology by surfacing the insights leaders need to plan, decide, and act with confidence in the moments that matter most. As the market leader in people analytics, workforce planning, organizational design, and manager effectiveness solutions, we fuel smarter decision-making for organizations across the globe. Our mission is to help businesses lead with insight at scale as they continuously transform.

Founded in 2010 by the pioneers of business intelligence, we have over 85,000 customers in 75 countries—including enterprises like BASF, Panasonic, Domino’s Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.

We are looking for a visionary Head of Planning to own our global Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy and lead our Workforce Planning business.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between the Visier solution and influencing our customer strategic workforce plans. You will be responsible for defining how Visier builds and scales its planning solutions in the market, driving revenue growth, and leading the workforce planning consulting team that helps enterprise customers transition from static plans to living, continuous workforce strategies. If you are a strategic leader with a strong POV on strategic workforce planning (SWP), enterprise change management, and scaling Strategic Workforce Planning GTM functions, this is your opportunity to shape the industry standard.

What You Will Deliver:

Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy & Market Ownership

- Own the GTM Strategy: Define, execute, and evolve the global market strategy for Visier’s Workforce Planning solutions including driving pipeline, adoption, and revenue growth.
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partner closely with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Solutions and Success to ensure Visier Workforce Planning aligns with market demand and customer demand.

## Team Leadership & Practice Excellence

- Lead the Advisory Function: Manage, mentor, and scale a team of  Workforce Planning Advisory Consultants who deliver end-to-end strategic programs for enterprise customers.
- Set the Standard: Establish and continuously optimize the consulting methodology, standards, and best practices for customer engagements (including process mapping, workshops, and change management).
- Operational Governance: Oversee cross-organizational collaboration (Project Managers, Data/BI Consultants, Development, and Support) to ensure successful implementations leading to customer success and retention.

Customer Success & Executive Sponsorship

- Executive Advocacy: Serve as the executive face of critical customer engagements, setting expectations, aligning stakeholders, and building lasting relationships with C-suite and HR/Finance executives.
- Champion the Customer Voice: Channel field insights, customer feedback, and domain knowledge back into the Product and Development teams to continuously enrich Visier’s technology.

What You Will Bring To The Table:

- Experience: 10+ years of experience leading Workforce Planning, management consulting, or enterprise software delivery within the HR tech, Finance, or Workforce Planning domains.
- Leadership Background: Proven track record of managing and scaling a software and/or services business catering to large enterprises (5,000+ employees).
- Domain Expertise: A strong point of view on modern Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) practices, financial/workforce model behavior, and talent analytics.
- Future Looking: Deep understanding of workforce transformation initiatives, specifically around how AI, automation, skills-gap analysis, and job redesign impact organizational design.
- Change Management : Strong ability to guide enterprise clients through the changes required to move from static planning to a distributed, continuous planning environment.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex financial and technical concepts beautifully to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Travel: Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to support global initiatives and key customer accounts (primarily Europe and North America).

Most Importantly, You Share Our Values:

- You roll up your sleeves
- You make it easy
- You are proud
- You never stop learning
- You play to win

How We Work & What We Offer:

- Annual company All Hands in Vancouver, our entire organization travels to our Vancouver HQ for a week of team building, learning and breakout sessions
- Competitive salary, and top-tier health and wellness benefits
- Stock options and/or bonus based on your role, location, and employment type
- Generous paid time off and extra days over the December holidays

Benefits and working arrangements may vary depending on your seniority, location and employment type. The compensation offered will be determined by factors such as relevant qualifications, experience, knowledge and skills. Many of our positions are eligible for additional types of compensation (e.g., commission plans, bonus, etc.) which our Talent Acquisition team will share with you if you interview for the role.

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## About Visier Solutions Inc

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Visier provides a workforce AI platform that unifies people data from across an organization to deliver contextual insights, recommendations, and planning tools for HR, business leaders, and managers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, post-acquisition)
- **Headquarters**: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Founded by leaders from the Business Intelligence industry, including former executives from SAP, Business Objects, Crystal Decisions, and Oracle (co-founders include John Schwarz and Ryan Wong, based on industry knowledge).

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: HR Technology / People Analytics (Workforce Intelligence)
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise – serves over 85,000 customers in 75 countries, including Dick’s Sporting Goods, Domino’s Pizza, Experian, Amgen, eBay, and Ford Motor Company.
- **Mission**: “To help businesses lead with insight at scale while continuously transforming in a rapidly changing workforce landscape.”

## Products & Services
- **Visier Workforce Intelligence Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-powered analytics layer that ingests data from HRIS, payroll, performance, and other systems to provide a unified view of the workforce. Offers pre-built dashboards, AI recommendations, scenario planning, and skills-based insights. Includes pre-built connectors and APIs for integration.
- **Workforce AI Engine**: Built on a context engine with 2,000,000+ users, combining people data, external benchmarks, and “blueprints” to deliver guided recommendations around retention, mobility, hiring, and compensation.
- **Activation & Program Management Tools**: Allows HR teams to design, run, and track programs (e.g., retention, comp, mobility) and connect them to business outcomes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of ~$100.0M (estimated) and total funding of $261.5M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Summit Partners (led Series B), Adams Street Partners (led Series C), Sorenson Capital (led Series D), and others. No public list of strategic partners, but the platform integrates with major HRIS and ERP systems.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 85,000 customers in 75 countries.
  - Headcount of 465 employees (-3.8% YoY per LinkedIn, while the company website mentions ~600 employees, suggesting recent reduction or different counting method).
  - Acquired Boostrs (2022) and Yva.ai (2022) to expand skills and AI capabilities.
  - Global presence with offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Berlin, Paris, London, Singapore, and Raleigh.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domain expertise**: 16 years of dedicated focus on workforce analytics, built by veterans of the BI industry.
- **Large workforce context engine**: 2M+ users provide a rich dataset for AI models, making predictions more accurate and relevant.
- **Pre-built connectors & ecosystem fit**: Seamlessly integrates with existing HR tools (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, etc.) and supports governance, security, and role-based permissions.
- **Action-oriented insights**: Goes beyond dashboards to recommend specific actions (e.g., which employees are at risk, how to adjust comp) and track program effectiveness.

## Strategic Focus
- **Unify HR, Finance, and Business planning**: Enable cross-functional workforce decisions with a single source of truth.
- **Embed AI into every workforce decision**: Expand the use of AI for retention, mobility, skills, and restructurings.
- **Global expansion**: Continue growing presence in EMEA and APAC (offices in Berlin, Paris, London, Singapore).
- **Product-led growth**: Leverage the free tier or freemium model (implied by “85,000 customers”) to drive adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Emphasizes “Never stop learning,” “Make it easy,” “Be proud,” “Play to win,” and “Roll up your sleeves.” Values are operational, not just aspirational.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid at Vancouver HQ (optimizing for in-person energy) and fully remote for other locations. Global team.
- **DEI Commitment**: Active Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board, uses own software to track DEI goals, sponsors Out in Tech.
- **Benefits**: Professional development budgets, personal health & wellness stipend, volunteer time off, and a strong co-op-to-hire pipeline.
- **Engineering Culture**: Co-op programs with mentorship from senior engineers; many co-ops return as full-time employees. The company is data-driven and uses its own product internally.

## Sources
1. [Visier Company Page](https://www.visier.com/company/)
2. [Visier Homepage](https://www.visier.com/)
3. [Visier Careers Page](https://www.visier.com/careers/)
4. [Visier Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/visiersolutionsinc)
5. [Visier LinkedIn Profile](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/visier-analytics)

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