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People Management Jobs in Colorado (NOW HIRING)

The Restaurant People Manager will lead and direct the routine functions of the Human Resources (HR ... management, and other staff when complex, specialized, and sensitive questions and issues arise ...

Director of Product Management

Denver, CO · On-site

$242K - $254K/yr

This is a people management role for someone who wants to build and develop exceptional PMs, own product strategy for the ServiceCore portfolio, and be directly accountable for the capability of ...

Free People Key Holder

Lone Tree, CO · On-site

$18.87 - $20/hr

Actively participates in managing the store environment and customer experience by facilitating an ... Supports an inclusive and people-first philosophy; engages employees at all levels to encourage ...

Free People Key Holder

Lone Tree, CO · On-site

$18.87 - $20/hr

Actively participates in managing the store environment and customer experience by facilitating an ... Supports an inclusive and people-first philosophy; engages employees at all levels to encourage ...

Reporting to the Regional People & Culture Manager, responsibilities and essential job functions ... Management, and Learning), supporting system implementation, testing, training, audits, and ...

The People & Culture Manager serves as the primary People & Culture partner for business leaders ... Talent Management & Succession Planning * Lead talent review discussions and succession planning ...

The People & Culture Manager serves as the primary People & Culture partner for business leaders ... Talent Management & Succession Planning * Lead talent review discussions and succession planning ...

The People & Culture Manager serves as the primary People & Culture partner for business leaders ... Talent Management & Succession Planning * Lead talent review discussions and succession planning ...

Talent Management & Employee Experience: * Manages the end-to-end lifecycle of critical talent ... People Analytics & Reporting: * Design and maintain dashboards, scorecards, and reporting solutions ...

Senior Managers on the People Insights and Analytics team not only guide the strategic path for ... Expertise in data management (e.g., SQL, WorkDay, etc.) and statistical / machine learning ...

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How much do people management jobs pay per year?

As of Aug 26, 2026, the average yearly pay for people management in Colorado is $63,083.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $47,300.00 and $76,800.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is people management?

People management refers to the process of leading, motivating, and developing employees within an organization. It involves tasks such as hiring, training, performance evaluation, conflict resolution, and fostering a positive work environment. Effective people managers help employees reach their potential while aligning their work with organizational goals. Good people management is essential for productivity, employee satisfaction, and overall business success.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in people management, and why are they important?

To thrive in People Management, you need strong leadership abilities, knowledge of HR practices, and often a degree in business or a related field. Familiarity with HRIS platforms, performance management tools, and sometimes certifications like SHRM-CP or PHR are valuable. Excellent communication, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and motivational skills help managers effectively guide teams and nurture talent. These competencies are essential for building high-performing, engaged teams and ensuring organizational success.

What are some common challenges faced by people managers when leading diverse teams?

People managers often encounter challenges such as balancing differing communication styles, addressing potential conflicts, and ensuring equitable opportunities for all team members. Successfully managing a diverse team requires cultural sensitivity, active listening, and adaptability to various work preferences. Regular team check-ins, inclusive decision-making, and ongoing training in diversity and inclusion can help managers foster a collaborative and productive environment.

What is the difference between People Management vs Human Resources?

AspectPeople ManagementHuman Resources
Primary FocusManaging and developing individual employees and teamsOverseeing HR policies, compliance, and organizational HR functions
Work EnvironmentTeam leadership, direct employee interactionHR departments, administrative settings
Required CredentialsLeadership skills, possibly management certificationsHR certifications (e.g., SHRM, PHR), relevant degrees
Employer UsageLine managers, team leadersHR departments, HR professionals

People Management focuses on leading and developing employees directly, often within a team or department. Human Resources handles broader organizational HR functions, policies, and compliance. While both roles involve working with employees, People Management is more about day-to-day team leadership, whereas Human Resources manages organizational HR strategies and policies.

Is people management in demand?

People management is a consistently in-demand role across various industries, as organizations require skilled managers to lead teams, improve productivity, and implement strategic initiatives. Strong leadership, communication, and conflict resolution skills are essential, and demand often correlates with organizational growth and restructuring efforts.

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Infographic showing various People Management job openings in Colorado as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 82% Full Time, 14% Part Time, and 3% Contract. Highlights an 84% Physical, 2% Hybrid, and 14% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $63,083 per year, or $30.3 per hour.

Senior Editor, People Managing People

Black & White Zebra

Denver, CO

Full-time

Re-posted 5 days ago


Job description

About People Managing People:

People Managing People helps executives and people leaders build AI-enabled, human-centered organizations that thrive.

We provide peer-driven insights, practical frameworks, operational playbooks, and community-powered experiences focused on HR strategy, AI in the workplace, talent and recruitment, employee retention and culture, workforce management, and modern people leadership.

Our audience includes CHROs, chief people officers, HR and people leaders, talent and recruiting leaders, operations executives, and senior people practitioners looking for practical insight, trustworthy guidance, and meaningful professional connection.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Senior Editor to help build People Managing People into a trusted, community-powered media brand for people leaders and HR professionals.

This role is responsible for growing loyal, engaged people leadership and HR audiences through authoritative, practitioner-led editorial experiences across articles, newsletters, social, video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and strategic partnerships.

This is not a traditional editing role focused only on publishing content. It is an audience growth and editorial leadership role centered on creating serious-fun, decision-support content that helps people leaders make better decisions, build healthier cultures, adopt AI-enabled ways of working, strengthen their teams, and navigate the changing realities of modern people leadership.

You will help shape the voice, authority, growth, and audience experience of the brand.

Your work should increase subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, return audience behavior, topical authority, and trust with people leaders and HR professionals.

Who You Are:

You understand how to create editorial brands that professionals actively trust, return to, and recommend.

You are deeply curious about how people leaders and HR professionals operate, lead teams, adopt AI-enabled workflows, build culture, develop talent, and navigate organizational complexity.

You know how to turn practitioner insight into useful editorial experiences that feel credible, clear, visual, engaging, and worth sharing.

You are not just a writer or editor. You are a builder of audience systems, community loops, and repeat engagement.

You think beyond articles and understand that modern editorial engagement happens across newsletters, video, podcasts, social, community discussions, livestreams, events, partnerships, search, and AI discovery experiences.

You are comfortable experimenting with formats, workflows, packaging, distribution strategies, and audience experiences to improve performance over time.

You care about usefulness, clarity, audience trust, and measurable impact.

What You'll Be Doing:

1. Build engaged, community-powered editorial experiences

You will create serious-fun, expert-driven editorial and audience experiences that grow subscribers, increase newsletter engagement, and build loyal engineering, AI, and technology leadership audiences.

  • Create, assign, edit, write, and publish editorial content across articles, newsletters, social, short-form video, narrative video, podcasts, livestreams, events, and community formats
  • Develop content informed by real practitioner insight, including interviews, contributor conversations, engineering communities, surveys, Q&As, and social listening
  • Create audience experiences focused on engineering leadership, AI adoption, scalability, platform reliability, developer productivity, infrastructure, security, and modern technology execution
  • Help program and support webinars, livestreams, roundtables, podcasts, and editorial event experiences
  • Repurpose editorial IP into newsletter blocks, social content, video clips, lead magnets, reports, and community assets
  • Ensure editorial output reflects the publication's tone, usefulness, authority, and audience relevance
  • Continuously identify opportunities to increase audience participation, contribution, sharing, and return engagement

2. Create insight-led decision-support content that performs

You will create and improve content that helps engineering, AI, and technology leaders make better technical, operational, AI, and organizational decisions.

  • Assign, edit, write, optimize, and experiment with JTBD, workflow, systems, tools, infrastructure, AI, and practitioner-led content
  • Build content that helps technology leaders understand what to do, how to do it, and what tools, systems, workflows, or approaches can help
  • Improve SEO-driven and community-driven content with stronger practitioner insight, storytelling, visuals, structure, examples, CTAs, and internal journeys
  • Build topical authority around engineering leadership, AI implementation, infrastructure, developer workflows, security, scalability, and operational execution
  • Produce and improve decision-support formats such as tools/tech roundups, benchmark reports, State of AI reports, engineering playbooks, expert interviews, surveys, member exclusives, and lead magnets
  • Use Marfeel, GA, HubSpot, newsletter data, and audience performance signals to guide optimization and experimentation
  • Test headlines, hooks, formats, distribution strategies, CTAs, and conversion pathways to improve performance
  • Monitor performance across subscriber growth, newsletter clicks, AI visibility, topical authority, engagement, and discoverability
  • Share learnings, experiments, and repeatable editorial playbooks across the organization

3. Expand audience reach, relationships, and distribution

You will help grow People Managing People through contributor relationships, strategic partnerships, distribution systems, and community engagement.

  • Identify, recruit, and manage engineering contributors, AI practitioners, technical SMEs, partners, and executive voices
  • Build contributor content audience community growth loops
  • Act as a visible host and guardian of the brand across newsletters, events, podcasts, social, community spaces, and contributor relationships
  • Package and distribute content across newsletter, social, search, Discover, podcast, video, community, partner, and digital PR channels
  • Collaborate on co-created reports, research, surveys, multimedia initiatives, and strategic partnerships
  • Represent the brand through events, panels, podcasts, conferences, and external opportunities when useful
  • Build and maintain reusable insight libraries containing interviews, quotes, patterns, transcripts, and community intelligence
  • Track relationship-building and distribution performance based on subscriber growth, newsletter engagement, RFV, authority signals, and audience quality
 
How Your Success Will Be Measured:

Your success will be measured through:

  • Growth in ICP subscriber acquisition
  • Increased newsletter clicks and audience engagement
  • Growth in returning audience behavior and repeat visits
  • Increased authority signals, search visibility, and AI discovery presence
  • Performance of decision-support and practitioner-led content
  • Audience participation and contributor engagement
  • Growth in non-organic and community-driven traffic
  • Successful execution of multimedia, event, and partnership initiatives
  • Clear evidence that audiences trust, share, and repeatedly engage with the brand
 
Your Skillset Includes:
  • Strong editorial judgment and audience instincts
  • Experience creating B2B, practitioner-led, or professional editorial content
  • Strong interviewing and synthesis skills
  • Ability to turn complex technical workflows and operational topics into useful, engaging editorial experiences
  • Experience growing newsletter engagement, subscriber audiences, or community participation
  • Experience across multimedia formats including newsletters, social, video, podcasts, webinars, or events
  • Comfort using analytics and audience signals to guide experimentation and optimization
  • Experience collaborating with contributors, SMEs, and strategic partners
  • Understanding of SEO, distribution strategy, audience engagement, and AI discovery trends
  • Strong organizational and communication skills
  • Ability to operate with speed, experimentation discipline, and audience empathy
 
Nice to Haves:
  • Experience covering HR, people leadership, talent and recruitment, the future of work, SaaS, HR tooling, or AI in the workplace
  • Experience creating benchmark reports, surveys, or insight-led content
  • Experience hosting or participating in podcasts, webinars, livestreams, or editorial events
  • Familiarity with modern HR and people management tooling ecosystems
  • Experience building community-powered editorial systems or contributor networks
 
Why This Role Matters:

People Managing People exists to help people leaders and HR professionals make better decisions in an increasingly complex, AI-driven world of work.

This role helps turn the brand into more than a publication. It helps make People Managing People a trusted decision-support destination and community-powered media engine for modern people leadership.

Under your ownership, the brand should become something audiences actively rely on, contribute to, share, and return to repeatedly.

$100,000 - $130,000 a year
Salary Statement:
This full-time position is available as a remote role that offers an annual base salary in the range of $100,000 to $130,000 USD. The range is a guide for the expected skills, knowledge, and experience for new hires based in USA only. Seniority level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. This means ranges will vary for candidates based outside of USA and/or at different seniority levels. In addition to annual salary, full-time employees are eligible for a discretionary bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.

About Us:
We're a rapidly growing, independent media tech company headquartered in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. Since 2012, our portfolio of influential digital publications has been helping millions of people succeed at work.

Our brands cover thought leadership for executives in project management, people management, product management, tech, marketing and many others - with the goal of connecting people with knowledge, skills and tools they need to succeed professionally in the age of AI.

We got our start in 2011 as The Digital Project Manager blog, founded by our CEO Ben Aston. Since then, we've grown into an international team of 70+ creators, strategists, and innovators with a portfolio of more than 15 online publications. We enjoy an impact-driven environment that combines the agility of a startup with the creativity of an agency and the diversity of a global company.

We've previously ranked #30 in The Globe and Mail's Fastest Growing Companylist as well as Deloitte'sFast 50 program, received a CMI award for Best Digital Publication for The Digital Project Manager-and we're listed in both Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers, and Best Employers in BC!

All of this growth is driven by our commitment to our mission: In a world of evolving skills, practices, and technology, we're creating a playbook for the future of work and empowering communities to create it with us.

Want to learn more? Watch this video to learn why the team love working at BWZ!

Diversity Equity and Inclusion: 
Black and White Zebra is an equal opportunity employer and considers all candidates for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital status, military or veteran's status (including protected veterans, as may be required by federal law), sexual orientation or any other category protected by law. We celebrate all backgrounds and attributes that continue to help make our team impactful, iterative, adaptable, and fun!

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