THE ROLE
Peloton’s nascent Learning + Development team builds global programs to empower team members to become their best and deliver their best work. We are seeking a Senior Director, Learning + Development to lead this growing team.
The ideal candidate brings strong skills in program design, curriculum development and partner resourcing and is driven to create and embed new company-wide learning programs across compliance, onboarding, manager and leadership development, core business competencies, and more. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Talent Development, this individual will work internally with teams across the Peloton to build, curate, and support learning content and experiences, explore new learning methods, and build both live and digital learning solutions to serve our global team members. Ideal candidates will thrive in a fast-paced environment, have 10+ years and deep experience in the development of learning programs in a high-growth, global company, and strive to stay on the forefront of innovative learning practices.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Because learning programs are relatively new at Peloton, the Senior Director will lead the effort to shift away from siloed learning initiatives in favor of building a cohesive, holistic, scalable learning program that accounts for key roles across the company. Responsibilities include:
- Develop and lead L+D initiatives that align with business goals, talent strategies, and meet all compliance requirements;
- Serve as an L+D ambassador to advocate for the value and continued growth of learning initiatives within the company
- Serve as a Peloton culture ambassador, leading with our core values and ensuring that our core values are embedded in all learning programs
- Work to ensure that all learning programs are equitably available to a diverse team of global employees and embed equity and belonging in each learning program
- Drive engagement and development at all levels of the organization, and foster an environment of continuous learning to encourage career growth and succession readiness
- Ensure that all learning programs are appropriately localized, translated (where necessary), and tailored in their implementation to specific global markets
- Lead and manage the design, development and delivery of technical and soft skill learning programs and services
- Conduct comprehensive needs analyses on a continuous basis, recognize emerging patterns, and provide recommendations to address gaps and/or potential opportunities
- Partner closely with the People Business Partner team to monitor the pulse of organizational needs and learning opportunities across global markets and diverse functions
- Measure and articulate L+D effectiveness and impact based on strategic alignment, overall organizational health and key performance indicators, including engagement data
- Research and implement best practices in instructional technology, tools, and approaches
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define appropriate scope and focus for L+D initiatives with key partners and stakeholders, including but not limited to:
- People Team (HR), including People Experience, Diversity + Inclusion, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and Business Leaders across the Company
- Identify business needs relative to L+D org and people development, and continue to grow and evolve the team to meet those needs
- Manage a team of L+D managers and content creators, and resource and manage external L+D vendors and relationships to serve the diverse needs of the business
- Foster a cross-functional team environment that reflects Peloton’s learning philosophy, encouraging continued growth and development
- Builds high performing training teams through recruiting, hiring, coaching, motivation, recognition, self-development, and support of career development
- Defines budget requirements to meet training objectives; tracks training costs for the company
- Develops the L+D team to create a shared ethos and learning experience globally
- Drives process and continuous improvement across Learning; ensuring departmental cost effectiveness
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years leading a corporate learning team, preferably in a high-growth environment with a large number of hourly and salaried employees, and with deep experience in developing and driving learning strategy across a global organization
- Expertise designing and implementing a variety of learning programs and creating supporting course documentation, including design documents, storyboards, art style guides, and learning objectives
- 10+ years experience managing large-scale programs focused on learning and development and human capital or people programs
- 10+ years driving the strategy behind instructional design, including creating engaging and interactive learning curriculums by applying industry standard methodologies, such as ADDIE, SAM, and Agile to the full life cycle of course development
- Ability to analyze information from a variety of sources to form instructionally sound course content
- Experience managing a team of learning content creators, including the direction of LMS platform use and appropriate use of visual and audio content design in Adobe Creative Suite, PowerPoint and other software used for developing engaging training experiences
ABOUT PELOTON
Peloton is the largest interactive fitness platform in the world with a loyal community of more than 3 million Members. The company pioneered connected, technology-enabled fitness, and the streaming of immersive, instructor-led boutique classes for its Members anytime, anywhere. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable, effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that encourage its Members to be the best versions of themselves. An innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton has reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines the best equipment, proprietary networked software, and world-class streaming digital fitness and wellness content, creating a product that its Members love. The brand’s immersive content is accessible through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, Peloton Bike+, Peloton Tread+, and Peloton App, which allows access to a full slate of fitness classes across disciplines, on any iOS or Android device, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku TVs, and Chromecast and Android TV. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has a growing number of retail showrooms across the US, UK, Canada and Germany. For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.