Senior Talent Development Specialist

Skills

About the Role

You will design and evolve end-to-end talent development and manager enablement experiences using a skills-based architecture. You will build scalable frameworks, tools, and guidance that enable managers and employees to grow in the flow of work. You will map career and manager journeys, identify high-impact moments, generate skills and talent insights, define success measures, and iterate using qualitative and quantitative signals. You will operate with high autonomy, influence senior stakeholders, and own outcomes that improve talent readiness and manager effectiveness.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in talent development, manager enablement, skills-based talent systems, or organizational effectiveness
• Working fluency with AI tools, including building and using lightweight app scripts or automations to support enablement and insights
• Ability to operate at a conceptual and systems level in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong independent judgment and comfort owning organization-wide outcomes
• Proven ability to influence across functions and senior stakeholders through clarity of thinking and narrative
• Experience designing talent, manager, or skills journeys that integrate multiple touchpoints
• Comfort operating in high-growth, distributed, or non-traditional environments
• Bachelor’s degree with at least 7+ years of related experience or equivalent advanced degree and experience (preferred)
• Background in manager enablement, career architecture, skills frameworks, or talent systems design (preferred)
• Experience using data and insights to inform design, prioritization, and iteration (preferred)
• Familiarity with learning and talent technologies as enablers of experience design (preferred)

Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert in career development across functional and management paths
• Partner with senior leaders and People stakeholders to translate business priorities into talent experiences
• Design and own end-to-end talent and manager journeys across functional and management career paths
• Map manager journeys and identify high-ROI moments that matter for targeted enablement
• Architect scalable frameworks, tools, and guidance that enable managers and employees in the flow of work
• Build and evolve a skills-based talent architecture that supports supply, demand, development, and internal mobility
• Enable personalized learning and growth pathways through practical skills-driven design
• Generate skills and talent insights to inform hiring, development, deployment, and workforce decisions
• Define success measures and use qualitative and quantitative signals to continuously improve experiences