Senior Director, Learning & Development

Indeed; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Equity-based incentive program

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Indeed is seeking a Senior Director, Learning & Development to own the end-to-end learning journey for global field teams. You will set strategy, design org structure, and lead a high-performing team focused on onboarding, product fluency, and sales skills.

You will leverage AI as a core lever to personalize learning, scale content, and provide coaching insights, partnering with senior leaders in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Requires extensive leadership of a global learning and design organization.
• Proven track record of developing high-performing teams and leaders.
• Experience using AI to personalize and scale learning.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and strategy for the global Learning Design function and lead a team of managers and specialists.
• Oversee end-to-end learning journeys across field teams (SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise).
• Advocate AI and innovative tech to personalize learning paths and accelerate content production.
• Develop and measure sales skills and product fluency for new hires and experienced staff.
• Act as a senior strategic advisor to executives, translating business priorities into learning strategy.
• Own dashboards and impact measurement tying learning to business outcomes.
• Manage communications and knowledge management for field teams.

Skills

Global learning leadership

Executive stakeholder management

AI in learning

Sales/CS enablement

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Our Mission

As the world’s number 1 job site*, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We’re looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.

(*Comscore, Total Visits, March 2026)

Day to Day

We’re looking for a high-energy, strategic leader to join our Learning and Development leadership team and shape how our global field teams (Sales, Client Success, and SBS) learn, grow, and perform. Our Enablement org makes our field teams more effective and efficient. We’re looking for a strategic problem solver who’s excited to partner with field leadership to shape how we enable our teams to sell and support clients at scale, across every segment.

As the Senior Director, Learning & Development you will own the end-to-end learning journey across our field teams to include onboarding, product fluency and sales skills. You’ll set the strategy, org design, and leadership for our learning design function, building and developing a high-performing global team. You’re an innovative, technology-forward leader who treats AI as a core lever personalizing learning, scaling content, and preparing our workforce for the age of AI. This role calls for excellent executive communication skills, close partnership with senior business leaders, comfort operating in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and strategy for the global Learning Design function; lead, develop, coach, and manage performance of a team of learning design managers and specialists, with a strong focus on building a high-performing, high-retention organization.
• Own the end-to-end learning journey for our field teams across all segments (eg SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise) establishing a consistent, globally coherent learner experience ensuring appropriate structures are in place to govern the standards for quality, consistency, design, authoring, and evaluation across all learning design.
• Advocate AI and innovative technology as core levers across the learning function personalizing learning paths, accelerating content production, powering coaching insights, and evolving how we design and deliver learning to keep Indeed ahead of the market.
• Own the strategy for developing and measuring sales skills and product fluency, ensuring new hires and tenured team members reach full performance as fast as possible.
• Act as a senior strategic advisor to executive leaders and senior business partners across the company proactively shaping learning and development priorities and translating business priorities into learning design strategy across every vertical, market, and segment.
• Take a data-driven approach to needs identification, evaluation, and decision-making; own the dashboards, reporting, and impact measurement framework that tie learning design directly to business outcomes, including product fluency and ramp-time metrics.
• Own communications and knowledge management for our field teams ensuring the knowledge base, content, and information channels are consistent, current, and easy to access and serve as a thought leader in instructional design and learning innovation, representing Indeed’s point of view in the market.

Skills/Competencies

• Requires a minimum of 17 years of related experience; or a minimum of 15 years with a Bachelor’s degree; or a minimum of 12 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with a minimum of 8 years experience.
• Significant experience leading a global learning and design organization.
• A demonstrated track record of developing high-performing teams and leaders, not just individual contributors.
• Experience using AI to help organizations optimize performance, personalize and scale learning, prepare their workforce for the age of AI, and bring new, innovative approaches to the learning journey.
• Experience building and measuring product fluency programs and ramp-time / time-to-productivity metrics for Sales or CS organizations.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, with the ability to set direction amid ambiguity.
• Proven experience as a senior strategic advisor to executive-level business leaders.
• Demonstrated executive communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing at the VP/SVP level.
• A data-driven mindset, with experience building measurement frameworks that connect learning to business impact.

Salary Range Transparency

Tier 1 – United States of America 162,000 – 244,000 USD per year

Tier 2 – United States of America 180,000 – 270,000 USD per year

Tier 3 – United States of America 198,000 – 298,000 USD per year

Tier 2 – Europe 150,000 – 226,000 EUR per year

Benefits – Health, Work/Life Harmony, & Wellbeing

We care about what you care about. We have a multitude of benefits to support Indeedians, as well as their pets, kids, and partners including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance. Indeedians are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, as well as an equity-based incentive program. Indeedians will also receive open paid time off, 11 paid holidays a year and up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave. For more information, select your country and learn more about our employee benefits, program, & perks at https://www.indeed.com/careers/benefits !

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement

Indeed is deeply committed to building a workplace and global community where inclusion is not only valued, but prioritized. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neuro-diversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non-merit based or legally protected grounds.

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Inclusion & Belonging

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Those with military experience are encouraged to apply. Equivalent expertise demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military experience, or education is welcome.

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