Senior Talent Development & Leadership Architect

Wealthfront; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

vision

dental

401K plan

generous time off

parental leave

welfare reimbursements

professional development

employee investing discount

and more!

Job summary

Wealthfront in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Employee Success Manager focused on performance, leadership development, and talent pipelines. You will help design organizational structure, create pathways for ICs and managers, and build talent development pipelines for each pathway.

You'll lead the first-time manager program, define elite IC development, design onboarding that accelerates performance, and build an early career pipeline.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience across talent development, performance management, leadership development, organizational development, or change management.
• consulting and organizational psychology or sociology backgrounds are welcome.
• exceptional writer — most of this job's output is words, from curricula and scripts to guides and communications.
• comfortable in front of a room: facilitating a session, hosting an orientation, and holding an audience are part of the craft here.

Responsibilities

• Partner with People Operations leadership on organizational design, leveling, and career pathways — the roles a function needs, and distinct tracks for individual contributors and managers.
• Turn each primary pathway in that structure into a working pipeline — the content, assessments, and practices that move people from one stage to the next.
• Design the early career and apprenticeship pipeline that builds our next generation of talent.
• Build the first-time manager program that turns strong ICs into confident coaches, maintaining a rolling cadence of manager and hiring manager training.
• Research an evidence-based picture of elite individual-contributor performance, and build the development pathways that help our best ICs get there.
• Own the industry and company onboarding curriculum to bring new hires to full performance faster.
• Assist with goal setting, reviews, and calibration so the process stays rigorous.
• Partner with each team's leadership on the technical and business knowledge specific to their product area.

Skills

Talent development

Performance management

Leadership development

Organizational development

Change management

Consulting experience

People/HR strategy

Job description

Wealthfront in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Employee Success Manager focused on performance, leadership development, and talent pipelines. You will help design organizational structure, create pathways for ICs and managers, and build talent development pipelines for each pathway.

You'll lead the first-time manager program, define elite IC development, design onboarding that accelerates performance, and build an early career pipeline.