AT&T

AVP of Skills, Strategy, & Development

AT&T$191K — $287K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in leadership development, talent management, or workforce transformation.
  • Proven experience in developing enterprise capability strategies in complex organizations.
  • Deep understanding of leadership development and organizational effectiveness.
  • Experience in integrating skills frameworks into talent management processes.
  • Ability to influence and lead transformation at the executive level.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.
  • Familiarity with talent marketplace and learning technologies preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of the enterprise skills strategy aligned with business priorities.
  • Design and maintain comprehensive skills and capability frameworks across the organization.
  • Define behavioral expectations and performance indicators for various leadership levels.
  • Partner with leaders to identify capabilities needed for future business demands.
  • Build scalable leadership development programs for all levels of management.
  • Embed skills frameworks into talent acquisition and performance management processes.
  • Drive data-informed decisions for workforce capability investments and strategies.

Benefits

  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee discounts up to 50% on eligible plans and services
  • Long Term Grants and Deferred Compensation
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (minimum of 28 days vacation annually)
Full Job Description

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

The AVP of Skills, Strategy, & Development leads the design and execution of the organization’s enterprise capability strategy, ensuring the workforce is equipped with the skills, leadership behaviors, and development experiences required to achieve current and future business priorities.

This role is responsible for building and operationalizing an integrated skills ecosystem that connects leadership development, workforce capabilities, manager effectiveness, learning strategy, and talent development into a cohesive enterprise framework. The role partners closely with HR, business leaders, workforce planning, talent management, and learning teams to create scalable capability solutions that accelerate organizational performance, agility, and internal mobility.

Rather than treating leadership development as standalone programming, this role defines the critical skills, behaviors, and experiences that drive high performance across all leadership levels and embeds them into talent and business processes enterprise-wide.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Skills & Capability Strategy

  • Lead the development and evolution of the enterprise skills strategy aligned to business priorities, workforce transformation needs, and future capability requirements.

  • Design and maintain enterprise-wide skills and capability frameworks, including technical, professional, leadership, and future-ready skills.

  • Define proficiency models, behavioral expectations, and measurable indicators of successful performance across organizational levels.

  • Partner with business leaders to identify emerging capability needs driven by market, technology, AI, and strategic transformation.

Leadership & Manager Development

  • Define the leadership and manager capabilities required for organizational success and long-term growth.

  • Build scalable leadership development architecture that supports frontline leaders through executives.

  • Establish clear behavioral expectations and leadership standards tied to performance, culture, and business outcomes.

  • Ensure leadership development experiences drive measurable behavior change, organizational effectiveness, and leadership readiness.

Workforce Development & Talent Integration

  • Embed skills and capability frameworks into talent acquisition, succession planning, internal mobility, career pathways, and performance management practices.

  • Partner with Talent Management and HR Business Partners to align workforce development priorities with business strategy.

  • Support the transition toward skills-based talent practices and workforce planning approaches.

  • Create development strategies that accelerate employee growth, engagement, retention, and organizational agility.

Learning Strategy & Development Architecture

  • Design the  enterprise development architecture as well as skill building strategies for the enterprise and specific business segments.

  • Ensure learning investments align to enterprise capability priorities and measurable business outcomes.

  • Leverage modern learning technologies, talent marketplaces, and skills intelligence platforms to personalize and scale development.

Analytics & Measurement

  • Utilize workforce and talent data to identify capability gaps, workforce risks, and development priorities.

  • Establish metrics and dashboards that measure skill growth, leadership effectiveness, internal mobility, readiness, and business impact.

  • Drive data-informed decision-making regarding workforce capability investments and development strategies.

Change Leadership & Stakeholder Influence

  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leaders on workforce capability and leadership development priorities.

  • Lead enterprise adoption of skills-based approaches and capability transformation initiatives.

  • Influence cross-functional stakeholders to align organizational systems, talent practices, and culture around enterprise capability goals.

  • Champion a culture of continuous learning, adaptability, and performance excellence.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, talent management, workforce transformation, organizational effectiveness, or enterprise learning strategy.

  • Demonstrated experience building enterprise capability or skills strategies in complex organizations.

  • Strong understanding of leadership development, behavioral change, organizational effectiveness, and workforce planning.

  • Experience integrating skills frameworks into broader talent systems and business processes.

  • Proven ability to influence senior executives and lead enterprise-wide transformation initiatives.

  • Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and change leadership capabilities.

  • Experience with skills intelligence, learning, HRIS, or talent marketplace platforms preferred.

Success Measures

  • Increased organizational capability readiness aligned to business strategy.

  • Improved leadership effectiveness and manager capability metrics.

  • Increased internal mobility and succession pipeline strength.

  • Measurable behavior changes and development impact.

  • Adoption and integration of enterprise skills frameworks across talent systems.

  • Enhanced workforce agility and future-readiness.

Our AVP-Training jobs earn between $191,400.00 - $287,200.00 USD Annual. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:


  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
  • Long Term Grants and Deferred Compensation
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 28 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays

Weekly Hours:

40

Time Type:

Regular

Location:

Dallas, Texas

Salary Range:

$191,400.00 - $287,200.00

About AT&T

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AT&T Careers

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Learn more about AT&T
Size
203,000 employees
Market Cap
$131.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$5.1 billion
Founded
1983
5 Year Trend
+0.6%
Revenue
$171.7 billion
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