Learning & Talent Development Leader

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement a comprehensive global strategy for learning and talent development that aligns with business goals and growth priorities.

• Foster a culture of ongoing learning that promotes professional excellence, effective leadership, innovation, and career advancement.

• Assess future workforce capabilities and critical skill needs throughout the organization.

• Prepare the organization for market expansion, digital transformation, new service offerings, and M&A activities.

• Oversee talent and capability strategies that support M&A transactions, including leadership evaluations, talent retention, cultural integration, and workforce preparedness.

• Design and facilitate leadership development programs for emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders.

• Create succession planning frameworks and targeted development strategies for essential talent pools.

• Guide the transition towards a skills-based talent model and develop workforce capability strategies.

• Establish skills taxonomies, capability frameworks, and workforce planning insights.

• Advocate for AI and emerging technologies in the realm of learning and talent development.

• Deploy modern learning platforms, personalized learning pathways, AI-driven coaching tools, skills intelligence solutions, and digital learning ecosystems.

• Leverage analytics and AI-driven insights to pinpoint capability gaps, forecast future skill requirements, and evaluate learning effectiveness.

• Counsel executive leaders on workforce capabilities, leadership effectiveness, organizational readiness, growth strategies, market expansion, M&A integration, and enterprise talent planning.

• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, Technology, Operations, business leadership teams, and Resource Management.

• Maintain relationships with external learning providers, universities, professional associations, and technology partners.

• Develop metrics and dashboards to assess learning effectiveness and business results.

• Lead and cultivate a high-performing Learning & Talent Development organization.

• Define the function’s strategic vision, operational model, and key priorities.

• Enhance organizational capability through team leadership, talent development, succession planning, and resource management.

• Promote operational excellence through governance, measurement, technology utilization, and continuous improvement.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, Psychology, or a related field is required.

• Over 10 years of progressive leadership experience in learning, leadership development, talent management, or organizational development.

• Proven experience in leading enterprise-wide learning and talent strategies within professional services, consulting, financial services, technology, or similarly knowledge-intensive sectors.

• Background in supporting business growth, organizational transformation, workforce capability planning, or M&A integration initiatives.

• Demonstrated success in developing leaders and driving workforce capability transformation.

• Strong executive presence with the capability to influence and collaborate with senior leadership.

• Experience in managing learning technologies and enterprise learning platforms.

• Expertise in strategic workforce planning.

• Proficiency in learning innovation.

• Familiarity with AI and digital fluency.

• Skills in change leadership.

• Experience in talent development.

• Ability to exercise executive influence.

• Competence in data-driven decision-making.

• Strong business partnership skills.

• Knowledge of organizational effectiveness.

• Customer and client-focused mindset.

• Experience in global talent strategy.

• Skills in building organizational capability.

• Expertise in M&A talent integration.

• Experience in workforce transformation.

• Ability to enable strategic growth.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents.

• 401(k) plan with a generous employer match.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• Generous Paid Time Off policy.

• Paid parental leave.

• Adoption assistance.

• Wellness Program that includes free annual health screenings and coaching.

• Convenient banking services at work.

• On-site workshops.

• Ongoing programs that celebrate significant events in employees’ lives.