Learning and Development Manager

The Talent Lever; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Talent Lever is seeking a seasoned L&D leader to build and own a comprehensive learning and development function for a Singapore-headquartered tech-forward team. You’ll design curriculum, budgets and metrics to lift capability across engineers, data scientists and cybersecurity specialists.

You’ll drive programs that teach communication, influence, negotiation and leadership without authority, while creating a manager pipeline that preserves engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years in L&D, talent development or organizational development, with at least one function or major programme built
• Real facilitation craft — you can hold a room of sceptical engineers
• Experience developing technical populations (tech, engineering, data, cyber) strongly preferred
• Instructional design fluency plus comfort with modern learning stacks and AI learning tools
• Evidence your programmes changed outcomes — promotion, retention, performance
• A growth mindset with new technology — you learn the tools before you're told to, and you're honest about what you don't know yet
• The ability to give feedback that lands and receive it without armour
• Stakeholder management across functions — you keep the right people close, informed, and on side
• Communication skills that hold up with senior leaders — clear, concise, and credible in the rooms where decisions get made

Responsibilities

• Build the L&D strategy from the ground up — capability framework, curriculum, budget, and the metrics that prove it
• Design and deliver the human-skills programmes technical talent actually needs: communication, influence, negotiation, stakeholder management, leading without authority
• Create the manager pipeline — turning senior engineers into people leaders without losing the engineering
• Deploy AI-enabled learning tools where they genuinely help, and defend human-led development where it matters
• Partner HRBPs and engineering leadership so development ties to promotion, retention and delivery — not attendance
• Measure what matters: behaviour change, promotion rates, retention of high performers — not completion rates

Skills

L&D strategy

Facilitation

Instructional design

Stakeholder management

AI learning tools

People leadership

Growth mindset

Communication

Job description

We're representing a Singapore-headquartered technology company — 500+ engineers, data scientists and cybersecurity specialists, that has learned an expensive lesson: brilliant technical work undone by rooms it couldn't read.

They're funding a serious L&D function to fix it, and they want the person who'll own it. This is for the L&D professional tired of being handed a compliance-training budget and called strategic — here, the mandate is real: build the interpersonal capability of a deeply technical workforce.

What You'd Own

• Build the L&D strategy from the ground up — capability framework, curriculum, budget, and the metrics that prove it


• Design and deliver the human-skills programmes technical talent actually needs: communication, influence, negotiation, stakeholder management, leading without authority


• Create the manager pipeline — turning senior engineers into people leaders without losing the engineering


• Deploy AI-enabled learning tools where they genuinely help, and defend human-led development where it matters


• Partner HRBPs and engineering leadership so development ties to promotion, retention and delivery — not attendance


• Measure what matters: behaviour change, promotion rates, retention of high performers — not completion rates

What You'll Bring

• 6-10 years in L&D, talent development or organisational development, with at least one function or major programme built rather than inherited


• Real facilitation craft — you can hold a room of sceptical engineers and earn the second session


• Experience developing technical populations (tech, engineering, data, cyber) strongly preferred


• Instructional design fluency plus comfort with modern learning stacks and AI learning tools


• Evidence your programmes changed outcomes — promotion, retention, performance — not just satisfaction scores


• A growth mindset with new technology — you learn the tools before you're told to, and you're honest about what you don't know yet


• The ability to give feedback that lands and receive it without armour


• Stakeholder management across functions — you keep the right people close, informed, and on side


• Communication skills that hold up with senior leaders — clear, concise, and credible in the rooms where decisions get made

You’ll Thrive Here If

• You believe human skills are the career multiplier for technical talent — and you've seen what happens without them


• You're done justifying L&D's existence and ready to run one that's already funded and believed in


• You want your fingerprints on how an entire company communicates, leads and grows

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