Director of Talent Strategy & Development

Encoura; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement contributions

Paid time off

Job summary

Encoura seeks a Manager or Director of Talent Management & Development to shape how our people experience work and are developed over time. This role aligns talent programs with organizational goals to retain and grow top talent across 800+ employees.

You will lead two Talent Development professionals, partner cross-functionally, and drive performance, engagement, and culture initiatives using Lattice and the existing learning stack.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in talent management, organizational development, or learning and development.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in talent management or related HR functions; ownership of enterprise-wide programs.
• Bachelor's degree in HR or Business Administration; Master's preferred.
• Experience designing and running a performance management cycle that managers across an organization actually completed.
• Experience owning employee engagement end to end and turning results into action.
• Experience building succession plans and running talent reviews with senior leaders.
• Strong consultative skills and the standing to influence leadership decisions.
• Comfort with talent data and measuring program impact.
• Hands-on with Lattice or comparable platforms and at least one LMS or content authoring system.
• Experience in a recently merged, acquired, or integrating organization.
• Experience supporting a distributed or high-volume hourly workforce.
• Experience in higher education or education technology preferred.
• Ability to pass CLEAR identity verification.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute an integrated talent management and development strategy aligned with organizational goals.
• Own the performance management cycle end to end in Lattice with a focus on adoption by managers.
• Own engagement and culture by turning listening results into action plans with leaders.
• Maintain the existing learning stack (Litmos, Articulate/Rise) and assess consolidation needs.
• Partner with the CPO on talent gap and capacity planning using data insights.
• Collaborate with leaders to identify capability needs and build leadership pipelines.
• Own and improve manager guides from day one and measure usage and outcomes.
• Lead, coach, and develop two Talent Development professionals.
• Utilize workforce analytics to assess program effectiveness.
• FY28: design succession planning and talent reviews, leadership development for a multi-legacy manager population, consolidated learning program, and Student Success approach.

Skills

Talent management

Organizational development

Learning and development

Performance management

Leadership programs

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or Business Admin

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Lattice

Domo

Litmos

Articulate/Rise

Job description

Encoura seeks a Manager or Director of Talent Management & Development to shape how our people experience work and are developed over time. This role aligns talent programs with organizational goals to retain and grow top talent across 800+ employees.

You will lead two Talent Development professionals, partner cross-functionally, and drive performance, engagement, and culture initiatives using Lattice and the existing learning stack.