Senior Leadership Development Manager

About the role

The role of Senior Leadership Development Manager has a critical role to play in the next phase of MongoDB's growth. You will help identify critical skills of the future, design innovative learning experiences and ensure that our People Managers, with special attention to our director-population, are continuously developing the capabilities they need to succeed in a fast-changing environment. You will design, build, and scale learning experiences that will enable people managers to live our values, serve our customers, and ultimately strengthen culture and accelerate performance. This role is part of the Culture, Talent, and Development (CTD) leadership team. As a team, we are responsible for culture and talent building programs, including leadership development, employee learning, talent management, engagement, listening, and inclusion.

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including AI-native startups and approximately 75% of the Fortune 100, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software. Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and evaluate scalable leadership development experiences, tools, and resources for people managers through direct delivery, internal facilitators, senior-leader faculty, train-the-trainer strategies, on-demand learning, and AI-supported experiences
• Lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of a director-level leadership development program serving more than 500 leaders, including scalable solutions for enrollment, participant and manager accountability, and impact measurement
• Conduct needs assessments and align program deliverables, priorities, and resources with business objectives and broader People Team initiatives
• Extend learning beyond the classroom through practice, reflection, peer connection, manager accountability, real-work application, and sustained reinforcement; drive participation and enable partner teams to embed leadership development into existing experiences
• Establish and execute a practical measurement approach spanning participation, completion, learner experience, application, behavior change, talent readiness, and relevant business indicators; analyze data and communicate recommendations
• Orchestrate concurrent projects and stakeholder relationships by clarifying ownership, timelines, resources, risks, constraints, dependencies, and change-management impacts to drive priority-based decisions
• Partner with IT and People Team stakeholders to co-build, evaluate, and responsibly scale AI-supported coaching, just-in-time practice, and other technology-enabled development experiences for diverse audiences

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience with 5+ years of experience designing, delivering, and managing leadership development programs; balancing best practices with practicality
• Strong track record of delivering strategic and tactical solutions in fast-paced, high-change environments, preferably in SaaS
• Proven ability