Director, Talent & Culture Strategy

Guggenheim Investments; New York (NY); On-site; USD 215,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with matching contribution

Healthcare and wellbeing programs

Paid leave

Learning and development opportunities

Family and caregiving support

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Guggenheim Investments seeks a Talent and Culture leader to own enterprise frameworks spanning onboarding, performance, advancement, development and retention. This builder-operator role sets philosophy, designs frameworks, and runs programs shaping talent decisions at enterprise scale.

Based in NYC or Stamford, CT, the role leads the Talent Management team, manages budgets, and embeds inclusive practices across all five pillars, ensuring transparent, defensible talent outcomes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in talent management or HR, with direct ownership of enterprise performance, talent review or succession frameworks.
• Experience designing and launching enterprise-wide talent programs.
• Track record running calibration and talent review cycles with senior leadership.
• Deep fluency in inclusion strategy and cultural competency development.
• Strong analytical capability: define talent metrics, interpret people data, and make an evidence-based case to executives.
• Exceptional influence and executive communication skills; credible with senior business leaders.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year talent and culture roadmap, sequencing framework builds against business priorities and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, business leaders and Legal/Compliance to translate enterprise frameworks into practices that work inside each business.
• Advise and coach senior leaders on talent decisions, calibration outcomes, succession and retention risk.
• Build the data and measurement layer for talent: define the metrics, instrument the programs, and report on performance distribution, mobility, promotion equity, retention of critical talent, and engagement.
• Embed inclusive systemic management practices and cultural competency development into onboarding, performance, advancement and recognition — not as a parallel track.
• Manage vendors, platforms and budget for talent and culture programs; drive adoption and change management at enterprise scale.
• Build, lead and develop the Talent Management team.
• The role owns all five pillars of the Talent Management function (listed below). It is accountable not only for designing the frameworks but for their adoption.

Skills

Talent management

HR analytics

Executive influence

Inclusion strategy

People data interpretation

Executive communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Guggenheim Investments seeks a Talent and Culture leader to own enterprise frameworks spanning onboarding, performance, advancement, development and retention. This builder-operator role sets philosophy, designs frameworks, and runs programs shaping talent decisions at enterprise scale.

Based in NYC or Stamford, CT, the role leads the Talent Management team, manages budgets, and embeds inclusive practices across all five pillars, ensuring transparent, defensible talent outcomes.