Director, Employee Learning

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The role of Director, Employee Learning has a critical role to play in this journey. You will help identify critical skills of the future, design innovative learning experiences and ensure that our employees are continuously developing the capabilities they need to succeed in a fast-changing environment. You will design, build and scale the learning ecosystem that will enable all employees to live our values, serve our customers, and ultimately strengthen culture and accelerate performance. This role will manage a team and contribute to broader priorities as a member 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. 

Job Responsibilities 

• Learning Strategy: Create a cohesive employee learning journey that provides meaningful growth experiences to all employees, aligned to our business goals, culture, and career development frameworks
• Learning Innovation: Introduce modern, digital and AI-first approaches to learning especially in the areas of content design, learning experiences, analytics and more, to meet employees where they are and scale with speed. Consult on organization-wide learning initiatives to optimize for learner experience, scalability and automation
• Instructional Design: Translate learning objectives into compelling learning experiences across modalities (instructor led, on demand, hybrid) and structure (cohort-based programs, courses, microlearning, job aids, scenarios, virtual coaching)
• Measurement & Impact: Partner with employee listening and analytics to identify key employee personas and skill gaps to inform content roadmap, establish a measurement strategy to assess the impact of all learning programs, and to create dashboards and reporting on key learning initiatives 
• Communications: Establish mechanisms to brand and communicate our learning strategies and programs effectively with key stakeholders, including HR Colleagues, Business Leaders, and Employees
• Team Leadership: Manage a team to deliver instructional design, learning programs, standards, and knowledge management at a fast pace and with high quality
• Operations: Establish our technology business requirements; identify and consult with vendors to support program delivery; lead the learning and content roadmap and budget; establish processes and standards to support all learning

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in HR with at least 7+ years in Learning & Development roles with progressive responsibility 
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate business priorities into learning outcomes.
• Proven success designing and scaling learning programs for high growth SaaS or technology companies 
• Innovative thinker with a high bias for action; must have a record of experimenting with new tools/technology, platforms and delivery methods. 
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to partner cross-functionally with other People Team members (such as HRBPs or the broader CTD team) and other leaders in the organization 
• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where priorities evolve quickly 
• Builder and a Strategic Operator, who can zoom out to design a forward looking learning strategy while rolling up your sleeves to deliver impactful programs today
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including facilitation with senior audiences

Preferred qualifications:

• Strategic ownership of learning and talent management technology/systems; familiarity with Docebo, Zendesk, SuccessFactors, and Tableau preferred

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 resource 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. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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