Talent & Development Specialist

About Us

One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.

What You'll Do

• Execute the Talent Roadmap: Act as a program designer and driver for the enterprise Performance, Development, and Reward (PDR) cycle, continuously simplifying and improving the process globally in partnership with Reward and Systems teams.

• Design & Facilitate Talent Reviews: Build and run the operational frameworks for enterprise Talent Reviews, succession planning, high-potential tracking, and critical role identification.

• Embed Career Pathing: Define, implement, and maintain scalable career pathing frameworks and pipeline strategies to enhance internal mobility and employee growth.

• Enable the Matrix: Build strong, collaborative relationships with Talent Partners to provide them with the enablement toolkits, training, and processes needed to ensure global execution consistency.

• Executive Talent Connection: Partner with the Executive Talent COE to ensure seamless handoffs and integration between enterprise talent processes and executive-level strategies.

• Leadership & Learning Design: Build Leadership Programs: Design, curate, and scale leadership development initiatives, cohort experiences, and modern online resource libraries (including "Role of the People Leader" programs).

• Operationalize Competency Frameworks: Evolve and integrate the Leader Competency Framework into core talent processes so it actively guides recruitment, development, and performance management.

• Skills & Capabilities Framework: Maintain and scale an enterprise skills and capabilities framework that defines future-ready skills, using it to directly inform talent, development, and succession plans.

• Translate Needs into Learning: Coordinate enterprise learning demand planning and translate development needs identified in talent reviews into targeted learning bootcamps, self-directed pathways, and mentoring programs.

• Measure Business Impact: Establish evaluation, reporting, and governance mechanisms to ensure learning and talent investments deliver clear, data-validated business outcomes.

• Ai & Talent Technology Integration: Adopt an AI-First Design Mindset: Redesign existing talent, performance, and learning programs to streamline workflows, automating administrative friction for employees and managers.

• Leverage Behavioral Analytics: Apply people analytics, psychometrics, and data-validated evaluation methodologies to improve organizational decision-making and measure program effectiveness.

What You'll Need

• Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience designing and executing enterprise talent management, performance, and/or learning and development programs in a complex, high-tech environment.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, I-O Psychology, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).

• Methodology Expertise: Strong foundational knowledge of Industrial-Organizational (I-O) psychology principles, organizational effectiveness, and leadership competency models.

• Tech & AI Savviness: Proven experience implementing or optimizing modern HR technology, talent analytics platforms, or AI-enabled HR tools to improve the employee experience.

• Execution & Project Management: Exceptional project and program management skills with a demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from strategy and design through implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Stakeholder Engagement, Influence & Change Leadership: Exceptional ability to engage, influence, and align diverse stakeholder groups, fostering inclusive participation and collaboration from project inception through execution and sustainment.

Skills & Capabilities

• Advanced Certifications: Prosci Certified Change Practitioner or equivalent. SHRM-SCP or SPHR. PMP or Agile/Scrum certifications (e.g., PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster).

• Applied Assessment Expertise: Hands-on experience designing, validating, or implementing proprietary 360-degree feedback tools, cognitive/personality assessments, or custom leadership competency models (rather than just administering off-the-shelf solutions).

Pay

Salary range $99,000.00 - $156,000.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $123,000.00- $184,000.00/ annually

EEO Statement

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.