Hadrian

Talent Development Program Manager

Hadrian$160K — $200K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in HR, talent development, or related fields
  • Proven track record in designing and implementing onboarding programs, specifically in operational environments
  • Knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies
  • Strong project management skills with ability to juggle multiple programs
  • Experience with frontline employee engagement in shift-based environments
  • Analytical mindset with capability to define success metrics
  • Excellent communication skills for engaging diverse stakeholders
  • Bachelor's degree in HR or related field; certifications like SHRM-CP are a plus

Responsibilities

  • Design and enhance structured onboarding programs to boost new hire productivity
  • Create role-specific onboarding learning content for multiple job functions
  • Collaborate with leaders to ensure practical and consistent onboarding experiences
  • Manage the 30/60/90-day new hire experience, including feedback mechanisms
  • Develop and maintain onboarding materials and resources with subject matter experts
  • Oversee program management from scoping to evaluation
  • Define and report key performance metrics regarding onboarding effectiveness
  • Manage relationships with vendors and external facilitators to ensure quality delivery
  • Document processes and tools for consistency across various sites
  • Align stakeholder priorities into coherent program directions

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage
  • 401k retirement plan
  • Relocation support based on business need
  • Flexible vacation policy
Full Job Description
The Role:

We are looking for a Talent Development Program Manager to shape how people join, grow, and contribute within our organization.

In this role, you will own the new hire experience end-to-end - from offer signed through the critical first 90 days and build the development infrastructure that supports employees long after onboarding ends. You will partner closely with senior leadership to build programs that are practical, scalable, and deeply aligned with the realities of a fast-moving environment. You bring a learning mindset to everything you build whether that's a structured onboarding curriculum, a manager workshop, or a self-directed resource guide.

This is a hands-on role with significant strategic influence. You will design and run programs, not just coordinate them and you will be expected to measure their impact and continuously improve them.

What You'll Do
  • Design and continuously improve a structured onboarding program that accelerates time-to-productivity for hourly, salaried, and supervisory employees across multiple sites
  • Develop and facilitate learning content including role-specific onboarding tracks for key functions including engineering, GTM, and corporate roles
  • Partner with leaders and frontline supervisors to ensure onboarding is practical, relevant, and consistently delivered
  • Own the 30/60/90-day new hire experience, including check-ins, milestones, and feedback loops that surface early retention risks
  • Develop and maintain onboarding materials, facilitator guides, and digital resources in collaboration with subject matter experts
  • Own end-to-end program management: scoping, stakeholder alignment, execution, and post-program evaluation
  • Define and track key metrics completion rates, time-to-productivity, retention by cohort, manager satisfaction scores and report regularly to People leadership
  • Manage vendor relationships and external facilitators where relevant, ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness
  • Maintain program documentation, toolkits, and process guides to ensure consistency across sites and over time
  • Navigate competing stakeholder priorities and translate them into coherent program decisions that move the business forward

What We're Looking For
  • 6+ years of experience in HR, talent development, organizational development, or a related People function
  • Demonstrated experience designing and running onboarding or new hire programs ideally in a manufacturing, logistics, distribution, or similarly operational environment
  • Experience applying adult learning principles to program design - familiarity with instructional design methodologies (ADDIE, SAM, or equivalent)
  • Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple programs simultaneously across different audiences and timelines
  • Comfort working with frontline and hourly employee populations, understanding the unique constraints of shift-based and production environments
  • Data-oriented mindset; you define success metrics upfront and use them to drive program decisions
  • Excellent facilitation and communication skills; able to engage credibly with both floor supervisors and executive stakeholders
  • Experience with HRIS and LMS platforms; familiarity with tools like Rippling, Workday, Cornerstone, or equivalent
  • Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or developing others formally or informally
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business, or a related field; relevant certifications (SHRM-CP, ATD, Prosci) a plus

What Will Set You Apart
  • You're energized by building programs from the ground up, not just maintaining what already exists
  • You're comfortable in environments that are fast-paced, operationally complex, and not always perfectly structured
  • You think like an owner - you care about outcomes, not just activity
  • You see onboarding not as an HR checkbox but as the foundation of long-term employee success

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is 160,00 - 200,000 (actual range may vary based on experience).

This is the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Benefits for Full-time Employees
  • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
  • 401k
  • Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
  • Flexible vacation policy


ITAR Requirements

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About Hadrian

Hadrianadri?ja?n?s]; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica, a Roman municipium founded by Italic settlers in Hispania Baetica and he came from a branch of the gens Aelia that originated in the Picenean town of Hadria, the Aeli Hadriani. His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor Trajan. Hadrian married Trajan's grand-niece Vibia Sabina early in his career before Trajan became emperor and possibly at the behest of Trajan's wife Pompeia Plotina. Plotina and Trajan's close friend and adviser Lucius Licinius Sura were well disposed towards Hadrian. When Trajan died, his widow claimed that he had nominated Hadrian as emperor immediately before his death. Rome's military and Senate approved Hadrian's succession, but four leading senators were unlawfully put to death soon after. They had opposed Hadrian or seemed to threaten his succession, and the Senate held him responsible for their deaths and never forgave him. He earned further disapproval among the elite by abandoning Trajan's expansionist policies and territorial gains in Mesopotamia, Assyria, Armenia, and parts of Dacia. Hadrian preferred to invest in the development of stable, defensible borders and the unification of the empire's disparate peoples. He is known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia.
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