Program Manager, Learning & Development

About the role

Simpson Strong-Tie is a leader in engineered structural connectors, software, and solutions for the building industry. We maintain a reputation as a trusted manufacturer, partner, and corporate citizen committed to our customers and employees. Our founder, Barc Simpson, established 9 Principles of Business we live out as company values and have made Simpson Strong-Tie an inspiring place to work since 1956. Our team of talented people is dedicated to our shared mission: to provide solutions that help people design and build safer, stronger structures.

The Program Manager, Learning & Development is responsible for managing, measuring, and continuously improving enterprise employee and leadership development programs that strengthen organizational capability, support talent priorities, and drive measurable business impact. This role supports the Training COE and partners closely with training leaders (L&OD, Sales and Operations), facilitators, vendors, and other key training stakeholders to translate development strategies into scalable learning experiences, effective program operations, and meaningful outcomes for employees, leaders, and the business.

Success in this position requires strong program and vendor management, stakeholder engagement, learning design knowledge, operational discipline, and a data-driven approach to evaluating effectiveness and improving participant experience and outcomes. The role plays a critical part in ensuring development programs are well-governed, executed, aligned to enterprise priorities, and continually optimized to build targeted skills, strengthen leadership capability, and improve organizational performance.

Responsibilities

• Program Deployment, Delivery Management and Governance (50%)
  • Lead end-to-end deployment and execution of development programs, including planning, scheduling, communication, participant management, facilitator coordination, logistics, and stakeholder support.
  • Manage annual program calendars, cohort schedules, enrollment processes, and learning technology requirements to ensure consistent and scalable program delivery.
  • Support program budget development, tracking, and reporting processes.
  • Develop and maintain standard work, operating procedures, and governance processes that improve efficiency, quality, and participant experience across all programs.
  • Develop and execute communications (pre, post, and during training programs) that build awareness, engagement, and adoption of learning programs.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for program stakeholders, vendors, facilitators, and participants throughout the program lifecycle.
  • Ensure programs align to organizational learning and compliance standards, processes, service-level agreements, and documentation practices.
• Program Design & Development (30%)
  • Design and manage employee and leadership development programs aligned to enterprise talent, succession, and workforce capability priorities.
  • Partner with business leaders, HR partners, and subject matter experts to conduct needs assessments and translate business requirements into measurable learning objectives, program structures, and participant journeys.
  • Create and maintain program frameworks, materials, communications, evaluation tools, and supporting resources that promote learner engagement and achievement of desired outcomes.
  • Design programs to support manager engagement, post-training reinforcement, learning transfer, and sustainability.
  • Ensure programs incorporate modern learning design and approaches, organizational values, and best practices in leadership and employee development.
  • Evaluate and leverage learning management systems and other learning technologies to support program administration, training delivery, learner engagement, tracking, and reporting.
• Measurement, Analytics & Continuous Improvement (20%)
  • Establish and manage program measurement strategies that evaluate participant experience, learning effectiveness, behavioral adoption, and business impact.
  • Analyze program data, assessment results, participation trends, and stakeholder feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and increased effectiveness and impact.
  • Develop executive-ready dashboards, scorecards, and reports that communicate program performance, business impact, and recommendations for future enhancements.
  • Continuously refine program design, delivery practices, and measurement methodologies to drive greater organizational impact and learner engagement and outcomes.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Learning or Organizational Development, Business, or related field required.
• Experience:
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in learning & development, organizational development, training, or talent development.
  • 3+ years of demonstrated project/program management experience managing complex, cross-functional training or learning programs from planning through execution and evaluation.
  • Experience coordinating training logistics and managing the end-to-end learner experience.
  • Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) and learning technologies; familiarity with virtual learning and digital learning platforms.
  • Experience partnering with business leaders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and cross-functional teams.
  • Experience with training evaluation, metrics, reporting, scorecards, and data analytics to assess program effectiveness and business impact.
  • Experience managing RFPs, vendors, and external partners.
• Skills & Capabilities:
  • Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, budgets, and stakeholders.
  • Operational rigor with a focus on standardization, scalability, and continuous improvement.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities/problems, exercise sound judgment, and develop practical solutions.
  • Data-driven mindset with experience in training measurement and analytics.
  • Experienced and effective communicator and storyteller within a business environment.
  • Ability to “meet an organization where they are at” and design solutions that move the organizational maturity forward in a way and pace that the organization accepts and culturally embraces.

Travel

This job requires less than 10% domestic travel.

Work Status & Location

This full-time, exempt position is ideally located in Pleasanton, CA or Plano, TX.

Relocation is not available for this position.

Pay

$93,400 - $158,800 / year

Essential Functions

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear, and sometimes walk and stand. The employee may occasionally push or lift up to 25 lbs.
• Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment where standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers/scanners, etc. are frequently used.

Benefits

We provide a wide range of benefits for eligible full-time employees, including:

• Competitive compensation, quarterly bonuses or commission, and first-rate benefits.
• Quarterly Bonuses/Commission: Eligible for either a bonus or commission, paid on a quarterly basis.
• Medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, employee stock purchase and bonus plans.
• Pay for holidays, vacation, sick days, funerals, and jury duty.
• Years of service awards, employee discounts, employee referral bonuses, charitable contribution matching, and education reimbursement.

View benefit plan details here.