Director - Employee Development & Learning

Job Responsibilities

• Design and lead an enterprise learning and development strategy aligned with company objectives and desired business outcomes, centered on three primary focus areas: Core Skills, Functional Skills, and People Management & Leadership Development.
• Shape the supporting strategies, systems, and processes that strengthen performance, engagement, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.
• Define and advance enterprise-wide core skill development priorities that build foundational capabilities aligned with organizational strategy and culture.
• Lead the strategy for performance and feedback practices that support goal setting, continuous coaching, development planning, and accountability across the employee lifecycle.
• Partner with senior leaders and HR stakeholders to strengthen manager effectiveness, employee growth, and a culture of ongoing learning and feedback.
• Use employee engagement insights and organizational effectiveness priorities to inform development strategies that improve team performance, retention, and culture.
• Design and oversee enterprise learning programs that build technical and functional capabilities aligned with business priorities, role expectations, and identified skill gaps.
• Partner with business leaders and HR stakeholders to identify capability needs and translate them into targeted learning strategies that strengthen role-specific performance.
• Develop leadership and people management programs that strengthen coaching capability, team effectiveness, internal mobility, and leadership readiness.
• Lead talent review and succession planning processes to identify high-potential talent, strengthen leadership pipelines, and improve succession readiness across the organization.
• Provide strategic consultation and coaching to leaders on feedback culture, development planning, organizational effectiveness, and change leadership.
• Lead and develop the team supporting employee development and learning, including the Manager of Development and Learning and the Development and Learning Specialist, while partnering cross-functionally to execute enterprise talent initiatives.
• Establish scalable learning operations, governance, and measurement practices to evaluate participation, adoption, effectiveness, and business impact.
• Partner with People Systems to define requirements, testing, reporting, and process improvements.
• Ensure systems, data integrity, workflows, and analytics effectively support talent programs and enable informed decision-making.
• Manage relationships with external learning and talent vendors to ensure service quality, program effectiveness, contract alignment, and support for business priorities.
• Oversee key annual enterprise initiatives and participate in global task force efforts to ensure alignment across regions, including annual performance and goal-setting cycles, Engagement Survey, Compliance Training, Cybersecurity Training Task and Mid-Year Review (MYR).

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, supporting executive leaders and enterprise efforts in the following areas: Strategic Feedback Systems, Performance Architecture, Operational and Data literacy, Talent Pipeline Management (succession planning).
• Strong capability in organizational design, change management, and leadership coaching in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• 4+ years of leadership and team management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Management, Organizational Psychology, Industrial/Organization or related degree preferred.
• Preferred Qualifications: ICF credentials (ACC or PCC), (SHRM-SCP, SPHR) and/or advanced degree (MBA, MS HR).
• Experience supporting a high-growth organization and scaling enterprise teams, processes, and capabilities.
• Demonstrated effectiveness partnering with global or multi-site teams and navigating matrixed stakeholder environments.

Pay

The base compensation for this position is $150,000 - $180,000 commensurate with experience.

Schedule

AMC Global Media values the benefits achieved through in-office collaboration, but we provide our employees with the flexibility to work from home one day per week.