Senior Director, Talent Acceleration (US) & Global Head of Learning & Development

Ninjakitchen; Needham (MA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

SharkNinja is seeking a senior leader to own the global Learning & Development practice in the US, driving multimodal instructional design, delivery, measurement, and learning tech. You will scale the function, build the US Talent Acceleration team, and partner with business leaders to translate enterprise priorities into regional impact.

The role requires an advanced degree with 10+ years of progressive experience, strong stakeholder management, and a track record of leading in a matrix

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of a Learning & Development function or practice across design, delivery, measurement, and technology.
• Experience designing and facilitating high-impact learning across multiple modalities (manager/leadership/culture onboarding).
• Strong matrix leadership with geographies and dotted-line talent management.

Responsibilities

• Own the global L&D practice vision, standards, and roadmap across regions.
• Design and develop learning experiences using in-person, virtual, digital, social, and AI-enabled modalities.
• Lead onboarding, manager/leadership capability, and culture programs globally.
• Oversee learning technology stack and systems – selection, integration, and value realisation.

Skills

Leadership

Instructional design

Delivery management

Measurement & analytics

AI-enabled learning

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Education

Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology / Learning / Education / HR

Job description

The role:

You are the enterprise owner of Learning & Development at SharkNinja and the leader of Talent Acceleration delivery in the US. You build the L&D practice end to end — multimodal instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology — and you make sure it shows up as real capability for our managers, leaders, and employees, not as a catalogue of programs.

The US Talent Acceleration team reports directly to you, assigned functionally against the priorities that matter most at any given time. Learning & Development extends into other geographies as needs require — placing people close to the business so design stays global and delivery stays local. You set the practice, build the team, and carry it through to impact.

What you’ll own:

Global Learning & Development practice

• Practice and strategy: own the vision, standard, and roadmap for L&D globally — a high-performing practice in multimodal instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology, coherent across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
• Design and development: build learning experiences across our priorities — reinforcing our culture, building our managers and leaders, and upskilling our employees — using the full range of modalities (in-person, virtual, digital, social, on-the-job, and AI-enabled).
• Signature programs: own our global onboarding experience that immerses new hires in our culture and accelerates their impact, our manager and leadership capability build, and the culture programs that embed how we work into the organization.
• Learning technology and systems: own the learning technology stack and the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that let learning scale — selecting, integrating, and getting value from the tools that carry the practice.
• Measurement and impact: define how we measure learning — from engagement to capability to business outcome — and use the data to sharpen what we build and retire what does not earn its place.
• AI-native learning: build L&D for an AI-first company — weaving AI into how learning is designed, delivered, and scaled, and into what Sharks are learning, in step with our Jailbreak AI Academy and AI capability work.

US Talent Acceleration delivery

• Regional delivery lead: own how the full Talent Acceleration agenda — culture, learning and leadership development, succession, and performance — is delivered for Sharks across the Americas, the US peer to our regional leads in EMEA and APAC.
• Team leadership: lead, develop, and grow the US T&E team, setting priorities, raising the bar on delivery, and building the bench.
• Business partnership: partner with US business and P&C leaders to translate enterprise priorities into what actually lands in the region, and bring regional signal back into the global practice.
• Execution and operations: run the calendars, cadences, and delivery mechanics that keep the regional agenda moving — on time, on quality, and visibly connected to our priorities.

Leading in the matrix

• Functional assignment: your US team reports to you directly and flexes onto the priorities that need them most — effort follows what matters, not fixed lanes.
• Global design, local delivery: place L&D talent in other geographies as needs require, keeping design consistent globally while delivery stays close to the business.

What success looks like:

• Builds L&D from a set of programs into a high-performing, measurable practice that managers, leaders, and employees experience as real capability.
• Leads confidently in a matrix — holding a clear global L&D standard while delivering the full T&E agenda in the US, and keeping accountability clean where talent is shared across lines.
• Ships learning experiences that visibly move our priorities — culture, manager and leadership capability, and workforce upskilling — and can prove the impact with data.
• Builds and grows a strong US T&E team and a global L&D bench, developing people and raising delivery quality.
• Influences senior decision-makers with a solution-oriented approach; comfortable presenting to, and being challenged by, executive stakeholders.
• A curious, courageous builder — rolls up sleeves where it counts, embraces obstacles, and holds a long-term view on capability.

Desired experience:

• Proven leadership of a Learning & Development function or practice — across instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology — ideally at global scale.
• Track record designing and facilitating high-impact learning across multiple modalities, including manager, leadership, and culture / onboarding programs.
• Experience leading in a matrix — managing solid-line reports across geographies and delivering through shared or dotted-line talent.
• Strong measurement and data orientation: defines learning metrics, reads the trends, and uses them to drive investment and design decisions.
• Comfort with AI-enabled ways of working and enthusiasm for building AI-forward learning.
• Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Learning, Education, Human Resources, or a related field, with 10+ years of progressive experience; or equivalent depth. People-leadership experience required.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder skills; strong program and project management across competing priorities.

Embodies SharkNinja's Success Drivers:

Rarely Satisfied, Progress over Perfection, Details Make the Difference, Winning is a Team Sport, Communicate for Impact

Who thrives here:

• You don’t wait for permission — you see a challenge and own it.
• You embrace discomfort — growth happens on the edge of possibility.
• You don’t just deliver programs — you build capability that changes how people work.
• You play to win — repeatedly. Winning today fuels winning tomorrow.
• You thrive on unvarnished feedback — it fuels your growth.
• You ask, "How can we make this happen — faster, bigger, better?"
• You execute with urgency, rapidly iterating, identifying gaps, and pivoting.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Pay Range: $220,000 - $265,000 USD

Benefits: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, backup child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at [e-mail]