ICON Aircraft

Director, Customer Training

ICON Aircraft$125K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in customer training or education in tech/industrial sectors.
  • 5+ years managing teams and scaling training efforts.
  • Strong technical aptitude for complex engineering products.
  • Knowledge of instructional design and adult learning methodologies.
  • Experience delivering training both virtually and in-person.
  • Proven record of launching and scaling training programs in ambiguous settings.
  • Cross-functional collaboration skills with various teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define the training program strategy and success metrics.
  • Ensure training readiness aligns with product launches and delivery schedules.
  • Own the curriculum and content strategy across various technical areas.
  • Translate technical knowledge into effective training materials with SMEs.
  • Run a flagship training experience combining classroom and hands-on methods.
  • Manage daily training operations, including the facility and trainers.
  • Implement a training platform for accreditation and measure operator performance.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to build a program from the ground up.
  • Work in a dynamic startup environment with innovative technology.
  • Engage with cross-functional teams and industry experts.
  • Potential for significant impact on customer satisfaction and retention.
  • On-site role in Austin, TX, with travel opportunities.
Full Job Description
The Director, Customer Training & Enablement builds ICON's training program from the ground up, turning a decade of hard-won construction technology knowledge into structured learning that takes a new operator from zero to running a large-scale 3D printing operation. You will own the program end to end: the curriculum and content, the hands-on training operations, and the platform that credentials operators and measures how they perform in the field. This role reports to the Customer Success leader within Technology Operations and builds a team beneath it.

Working across Product Engineering, Technology Operations, Titan Platform Sales, Customer Support, and Marketing, you will pull ICON's technical knowledge into a program that customers recognize as a differentiated part of the ICON offering, one that drives adoption, satisfaction, and renewal. This is a build-it role for someone who has stood up complex programs in new or fast-moving domains, not a corporate learning-and-development specialist.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Program Strategy & Vision
  • Define the strategy, customer experience, and operating model for ICON's training program, and set the success metrics and KPIs that prove it works.
  • Ensure training readiness for product launches, go-to-market plans, and delivery schedules, keeping curriculum aligned to product changes and field reality.

Learning Experience & Curriculum
  • Own the learning pathways, curriculum, and content strategy across hardware, software, materials, design, and operations, directing the designers who build and validate the frameworks.
  • Partner with subject-matter experts across product and operations to translate deep technical knowledge into effective, scalable learning material, and build the knowledge base that has to sit behind it.

Training Delivery & Operations
  • Stand up and run a flagship training experience at ICON's Austin campus that blends classroom, hands-on printing, and simulation and VR methods.
  • Run day-to-day training operations, including the facility, the printers, and the trainers who deliver the program.

Platform, Credentialing & Outcomes
  • Implement a sophisticated training platform, including an LMS, credentialing, and accreditation for operators.
  • Measure operator field performance, feed those insights back into the program, and route recurring operator issues to product and engineering teams.

Workforce & Talent Pipeline
  • Shape the workforce strategy for who gets trained, from customer-supplied operators to newer pipelines such as military and trade-school talent funneled into print operations.
  • Drive customer satisfaction and sustained product adoption through the quality of the operators the program produces.

Leadership & Expansion
  • Build and cultivate a team of trainers, coordinators, and instructional designers, and own program operations, budgets, and vendor relationships.
  • Scale the program to new markets while holding performance and quality standards.


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 10+ years in customer training, customer education, or learning and development, preferably in a technology or industrial environment.
  • 5+ years of people management, including building or scaling a team.
  • Technical aptitude to learn a complex engineering or hardware product deeply, with a proven ability to extract knowledge from technical SMEs and convert it into structured, scalable curriculum.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of instructional design methodology and adult learning theory (for example, ADDIE or SAM) applied to competency frameworks and curriculum architecture.
  • Strong track record of delivering training virtually, in person, and with technology.
  • Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and scaling training programs, ideally in ambiguous or early-stage environments.
  • Proven success operating cross-functionally as a liaison across product, engineering, operations, sales, and support teams.
  • Able to work on-site in Austin, TX, and to travel as needed to customer sites, company locations, and training events.

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience building a customer education or certification function from an early stage.
  • Prior technical experience or education with hardware, robotics, or industrial technology.
  • Experience implementing and administering LMS and credentialing platforms.
  • Experience standing up programs for novel technologies, new markets, or new customer bases.
  • Experience in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment.
  • Professional L&D credential (for example, ATD CPTD, CPTM, or Kirkpatrick certification).
  • Exposure to 3D printing, additive construction, or emerging construction technologies.

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