Social Impact Manager

Role: Social Impact Manager Team: Social Impact & Transparency Scope: People Manager, M3 Years of Experience: 8+ years Location: Ventura, CA (Hybrid) Target Hiring Range: $130,300-146,000 USD Annual At Patagonia, our purpose is clear: We're in business to save our home planet. This role contributes to Patagonia's mission by helping advance social compliance and impact programs that improve working conditions, strengthen worker voice, and support responsible business practices throughout our global supply chain. The Manager, Social Impact translates strategic priorities into action, manages human rights risks, builds strong partnerships, and develops a team capable of delivering meaningful and lasting impact. What You’ll Do Strategy, Programs & Impact Help shape and execute Patagonia's social impact strategy, informed by worker needs, human rights risks, business priorities, and supply chain realities. Translate strategic priorities into annual plans, roadmaps, goals, metrics, and team deliverables. Lead key social impact programs, including living wages, worker voice, grievance mechanisms, responsible recruitment and migrant worker protections, remediation, and supplier capability building. Manage Patagonia's Fair Labor Association responsibilities and support related commitments and continuous improvement efforts. Use program data, field insights, and external developments to evaluate and strengthen programs. Identify risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs, and recommend practical, worker-centered solutions. Support the development of scalable processes, governance mechanisms, and tools that improve consistency and effectiveness across programs. Team Leadership Lead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed team across multiple countries and time zones. Establish clear priorities, expectations, and accountability while creating an environment of trust, inclusion, and psychological safety. Delegate meaningful ownership and decision-making authority so team members can expand their expertise, grow professionally, and drive results. Provide regular mentoring and development opportunities. Foster strong team engagement, collaboration, and a sense of belonging across a remote and globally distributed team. Supplier Due Diligence & Responsible Sourcing Oversee social responsibility activities of supplier lifecycle from onboarding to responsible exit, as needed. Prioritize efforts using a risk-based approach, with particular attention to vulnerable workers and high-risk sourcing regions. Guide remediation and escalation processes to ensure actions are timely, worker-centered, well-documented, and aligned with company expectations. Strengthen data quality, reporting, analysis, and performance tracking to support decision-making and continuous improvement. External Engagement & Partnerships Represent Patagonia in selected industry initiatives, working groups, conferences, and stakeholder forums. Build trusted relationships with suppliers, worker organizations, civil society groups, peer companies, and other stakeholders to advance shared goals. Monitor regulatory, geopolitical, labor rights, and industry developments and translate emerging issues into actionable recommendations. Support public communications, customer inquiries, interviews, and substantiation of social impact claims when appropriate. Cross-Functional Leadership & Governance Partner with Sourcing, Materials, Legal, Customs Compliance, Communications, Environmental Impact, Data, Finance, and other teams to integrate social impact considerations into business decisions. Lead cross-functional initiatives and contribute to policy development, training, and issue-response efforts. Communicate complex topics effectively and tailor messages to diverse audiences. Build alignment and influence outcomes through strong relationships, collaboration, and credibility. Who You Are Passionate: Champions workers' rights and well-being and integrates this commitment into everyda…

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