What Lead HR Jobs Ask For
Across 251 open Lead HR postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, employee-relations, performance-management.
Updated September 19, 2026
303 open Lead HR postings. The percentages below are measured over the 251 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 46% |
| employee-relations | 43% |
| performance-management | 37% |
| stakeholder-management | 30% |
| analytics | 26% |
| automation | 20% |
| succession-planning | 18% |
| talent-management | 15% |
| machine-learning | 12% |
| zoom | 12% |
| demand-generation | 12% |
| process-improvement | 7% |
| cloud | 7% |
| agile | 6% |
| people-analytics | 6% |
| agentic-ai | 6% |
| candidate-experience | 6% |
| accessibility | 4% |
| fintech | 4% |
| bamboohr | 4% |
| generative-ai | 4% |
| backbone | 3% |
| data-analytics | 3% |
| gdpr | 3% |
| regulatory-compliance | 3% |
| servicenow | 3% |
| vendor-management | 3% |
| data-quality | 3% |
| 1c | 2% |
| data-governance | 2% |
| data-science | 2% |
| six-sigma | 2% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
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Across all HR levels
Most HR postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- employee-relations 10,223
- performance-management 8,055
- talent-management 3,569
- succession-planning 3,364
- analytics 2,779
- ai 2,020
- stakeholder-management 1,321
- process-improvement 1,282
- automation 985
- regulatory-compliance 760
- candidate-experience 608
- people-analytics 581