What C-level HR Jobs Ask For
Across 775 open C-level HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are employee-relations, performance-management, succession-planning.
Updated September 18, 2026
927 open C-level HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 775 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| employee-relations | 67% |
| performance-management | 61% |
| succession-planning | 38% |
| analytics | 32% |
| talent-management | 27% |
| ai | 26% |
| automation | 15% |
| stakeholder-management | 11% |
| people-analytics | 9% |
| candidate-experience | 9% |
| regulatory-compliance | 7% |
| process-improvement | 7% |
| employer-branding | 7% |
| strategic-planning | 5% |
| vendor-management | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| full-cycle-recruiting | 4% |
| data-analytics | 3% |
| agentic-ai | 3% |
| agile | 3% |
| fintech | 3% |
| hipaa | 3% |
| backbone | 2% |
| data-governance | 2% |
| ecommerce | 2% |
| cloud | 2% |
| successfactors | 2% |
| adp | 2% |
| oracle | 2% |
| ai-enablement | 2% |
| networking | 2% |
| accessibility | 2% |
| data-quality | 2% |
| sap | 2% |
| gdpr | 1% |
| go-to-market | 1% |
| machine-learning | 1% |
| sharepoint | 1% |
| data-science | 1% |
| notion | 1% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 927 open C-level HR jobs →
Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 10,222
- performance-management 8,066
- talent-management 3,574
- succession-planning 3,379
- analytics 2,783
- ai 2,026
- stakeholder-management 1,321
- process-improvement 1,277
- automation 983
- regulatory-compliance 764
- candidate-experience 604
- people-analytics 576