About the Role As Manager of Learning & Development, you will design and scale programs that help employees and leaders grow, perform at their best, and build successful careers. Your work will shape a high-performance culture and drive business impact through stronger capability across the organization.
Responsibilities - Enterprise Learning Strategy & Function Leadership. Lead and architect the end-to-end Learning & Development function at Skillz, defining the strategy, operating model, governance, and roadmap aligned to company KPIs. Build and scale a high-performing L&D team, ensuring clarity of ownership, curriculum standards, and measurable business outcomes.
- Performance Acceleration & Early Career Enablement. Drive improvements in employee performance across the lifecycle, accelerating time-to-productivity and strengthening the first 90-day onboarding experience. Design and implement scalable onboarding and manager enablement interventions that measurably improve ramp speed, performance attainment, and retention.
- Manager Capability & Organizational Effectiveness. Elevate manager effectiveness by defining competency frameworks, leading manager development programs, and embedding performance rigor across the organization. Act as both a strategic advisor and hands-on program leader to ensure managers are equipped to drive high performance and accountability.
- Learning Measurement & Business Impact Accountability. Establish a robust learning measurement framework that ties training initiatives to tangible business metrics (performance distribution, retention, productivity, manager effectiveness). Deliver regular executive-level reporting and ensure L&D investments produce measurable impact across business units.
Key Competencies - Strategic L&D Architecture. Demonstrated ability to design and stand up an enterprise learning function from strategy through execution, aligning development programs to business outcomes in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments.
- Business Impact Orientation. Strong analytical mindset with the ability to connect learning initiatives to measurable performance, retention, and productivity outcomes. Comfortable partnering with People Operations, FP&A, Analytics, and business leaders to quantify impact.
- Manager Development & Performance Expertise. Deep expertise in performance management, manager enablement, and organizational effectiveness. Ability to coach senior leaders while also designing and deploying scalable training programs.
- Change Leadership & Organizational Agility. Proven ability to lead change initiatives, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive adoption of new programs in startup or scaling environments.
- Operational & Tactical Execution. Hands-on leader who can facilitate training, design curriculum, and build tools when needed, while simultaneously operating at a strategic level. Balances high-level orchestration with detailed program execution.
- Team Leadership & Talent Development. Experience building and leading high-performing teams, establishing clear performance standards, coaching team members, and ensuring continuity and scalability of core programs.
- Data-Driven Decision Making. Skilled in establishing metrics, dashboards, and reporting structures to monitor learning effectiveness and inform continuous improvement.
Experience - 10-12 years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or Talent Management. Experience building or scaling enterprise learning programs in growth-stage or technology-driven environments preferred but not required.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field; or equivalent education and experience.
- Prior people management experience, with demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Proven experience designing manager development programs, onboarding frameworks, and performance enablement initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes.
- Experience working in fast-paced, scaling organizations where both strategic leadership and tactical execution are required.
Total Starting Compensation including Base + Bonus + Equity: $128,000
Location: Onsite, Las Vegas, NV
Travel Requirement: Less than 10%
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