Director, Talent Development
Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides accredited individual investors and institutions with access to professionally managed, diversified venture portfolios. It offers funds, syndicates, investing clubs, investor education, and strategic support for portfolio founders.
About Alumni Ventures
Founded in 2014, Alumni Ventures democratizes access to venture capital by sourcing and rigorously vetting startup investments, then offering diversified funds and deal-by-deal syndicates to accredited investors and institutions. Its platform spans multiple sectors, stages, geographies, and investment themes, including AI, healthcare, deep tech, fintech, blockchain, and digital assets. AV also operates investing clubs and AV Academy, and supports portfolio companies through co-investment, founder networking, recruiting, customer introductions, events, and other platform services.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
This hands-on individual contributor role partners with managers and employees to build a culture of continuous development and high performance. The Director will develop Individual Development Plans, design manager and leadership programs, create learning pathways and digital resources, facilitate learning events, enable practical AI adoption, and measure learning effectiveness through capability improvement and business outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of progressive experience in talent development, learning and development, leadership development, coaching, or organizational development
- Experience building Individual Development Plans and coaching managers
- Experience designing and facilitating manager and leadership development programs
- Strong instructional design and curriculum development experience
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, coaching, consulting, and relationship-building skills
- Strong business judgment and ability to influence without direct authority
- Demonstrated project management and program execution skills
- Ability and willingness to travel periodically to Alumni Ventures offices
Responsibilities
- Partner with managers to build Individual Development Plans for employees
- Coach managers on capability gaps, development priorities, and learning experiences
- Support employees with development planning and remove barriers to performance
- Create tools, templates, playbooks, workshops, videos, facilitator guides, and digital learning resources
- Design and facilitate manager and leadership development programs
- Develop learning pathways for investment and corporate professionals
- Help employees integrate AI into daily workflows through practical use cases and prompting techniques
- Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and translate them into business applications
- Facilitate onboarding, leadership development, enterprise learning events, and team workshops
- Measure learning effectiveness through capability improvement and business outcomes
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage with employer-funded deductible support and HSA contributions
- Dental and vision plans
- HSA, FSA, and commuter benefits with monthly employer contribution
- 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance, health advocacy, and wellness resources
- Flexible unlimited PTO and generous paid parental leave
- 11 company holidays
- Eligible employees may receive equity and a corporate bonus
