Senior Org Effectiveness and Talent Development Manager

Senior Org Effectiveness & Talent Development Manager

Optro is a high-performance organization, and we believe that maintaining a high bar for excellence is a competitive advantage. The Senior Org Effectiveness & Talent Development Manager is the lead architect of our global talent infrastructure. Your mission is to ensure that as we scale, our organizational structures are optimized, our leadership bench is deep, and our workforce possesses the business-critical skills required to win. You don't just manage programs; you build the organizational capacity for high performance.

In this role, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy as a key partner to our People Business Partners (PBPs) and leaders.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the Global Strategic Workforce Plan, utilizing predictive analytics to forecast talent needs and bridge critical capability gaps on a 24-month horizon.
• Architect and govern the global organizational design framework, partnering with PBPs to ensure department structures are scalable, agile, and aligned with long-term business strategy
• Own the Global Leadership Excellence framework, institutionalizing a continuous development pipeline from Emerging Leaders to Executives that reinforces a high-performance culture.
• Enable a "Coaching Culture" by equipping leaders with the frameworks to facilitate high-stakes performance and talent discussions.
• Reposition L&D as a strategic profit-center by sunsetting "General Interest" content in favor of high-impact re-skilling initiatives that directly solve functional business bottlenecks.
• Drive enterprise-wide AI fluency by designing and deploying a comprehensive AI-readiness framework, ensuring the workforce possesses the technical and cognitive skills to accelerate AI adoption across all business functions.
• Create "Learning Paths" that map the competencies required for high-performers to transition into high-priority global functions.
• Partner with the Performance and Talent Manager to turn the "HiPo Bench" into a ready-to-deploy pipeline through structured, high-readiness development programs.
• Own the Learning Technology roadmap, driving the global scaling of learning technologies that support self-paced development
• Partner with the Performance and Talent Manager to ensure new skills are assessed in SMART goals and utilized on the job.

Attributes for a Successful Candidate

• 10+ years in HR Business Partner, Org Development, Management Consulting, or Strategic HR.
• Proven experience scaling a global company to 1,000+ employees.
• The ability to see the "big picture" and understand how a change in one team's structure affects the global ecosystem.
• Strong enough to challenge a VP on their team structure and skilled enough to facilitate complex design workshops.
• Comfortable using data to project future headcount costs and skill-gap risks.
• Ability to navigate complex, ambiguous situations by balancing legal risks with cultural impact, consistently making objective decisions that uphold our high-performance standards.
• Experience working within a fast-growing SaaS or tech company.

Perks (United States)

• Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America and EMEA!
• Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life
• Comprehensive employee health coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Competitive compensation & bonus program
• Flexible vacation (exempt) / Accrued vacation (non-exempt)
• Time off for your birthday & volunteering
• Employee resource groups
• Opportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers!
• Parental Leave

*perks may vary based on eligibility/location

Our company values include customer obsession, gritty resilience, drive innovation, win together, and growth mindset.