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An overview of this role
Ready to revolutionize growth and development for teams across the globe? As our Senior Learning & Organizational Development Program Manager, you’ll be a driving force behind GitLab’s talent development strategy, creating a vibrant culture of continuous learning and business impact. In this strategic role, you’ll blend organizational effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, innovative learning design, and people development to make magic happen. Working with our Talent Management & Development team and leadership across our global, remote-first organization, you’ll craft transformative learning experiences that help GitLab team members reach new heights and drive our collective success.
What You’ll Do
- Champion the strategic development and execution of learning and organizational development initiatives that align with GitLab’s business objectives and growth strategy
- Collaborate with senior leadership within the People Group and across GitLab teams to identify, develop, and deliver solutions that drive organizational effectiveness and team member growth
- Craft and launch highly engaging learning experiences for all levels, from individual contributors to executive leadership
- Design and scale programs that strengthen company culture, accelerate individual development, drive team productivity, enhance leadership capabilities, and foster organizational learning
- Develop data-driven measurement strategies to evaluate program effectiveness and ROI, using insights to continuously improve and iterate on learning solutions
- Design breakthrough, multi-modal learning experiences utilizing GitLab’s digital platforms, including our learning tech stack, our GitLab Handbook, and other channels that meet learners where they are
- Lead multifaceted, cross-functional learning initiatives from conception to implementation, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships with key stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver impactful learning solutions
- Partner across teams to continuously evaluate impact and experience across GitLab’s diverse team member population
- Guide and influence organizational learning strategy through thought leadership and expertise in adult learning principles
- Pioneer scalable frameworks that enable a culture of continuous learning and development
- Leverage Artificial Intelligence to take learning, growth, and career development at GitLab into the future
- Collaborate with other learning functions within GitLab to ensure Talent Development is delivering the best experience for all team members
- Champion inclusion and accessibility throughout learning design, implementation, and beyond
- Demonstrate technical agility by quickly adapting to new learning technologies, platforms, and AI tools to create cutting-edge learning solutions
What You’ll Bring
- 6+ years experience in related work such as instructional design, facilitation, content development, program implementation, and evaluation
- Track record of designing engaging and impactful development programs that improves individual, team, and company performance
- Exceptional written and interpersonal skills
- Experience developing self-service learning content, such as e-learning modules
- Experience designing and delivering webinars or synchronous online courses
- Strong logistical planning and organizational skills
- Capable of working collaboratively across multiple departments
- Passionate about personal development, training, learning, and seeing individuals develop to their fullest potential
- Deep experience in assessing organizational needs and developing a variety of learning solutions to drive development and growth within the company
- Strong technical aptitude with the ability to quickly learn and leverage new learning technologies, platforms, and digital tools
- Experience with learning management systems (LMS) and modern learning technology platforms including learning experience platforms and talent experience solutions
About the team
GitLab’s Talent Management & Development team is responsible for building and maintaining a learning culture at GitLab. Specifically, L&D plays a strategic role in the organization to ensure team members acquire and build skills, knowledge, and competencies that will enable them to perform at a high level. The goal of the job family is to develop and change the behavior of team members and groups to reach organizational objectives and results.
Ready to revolutionize growth and development for teams across the globe? As our Senior Learning & Organizational Development Program Manager, you’ll be a driving force behind GitLab’s talent development strategy, creating a vibrant culture of continuous learning and business impact. In this strategic role, you’ll blend organizational effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, innovative learning design, and people development to make magic happen. Working with our Talent Management & Development team and leadership across our global, remote-first organization, you’ll craft transformative learning experiences that help GitLab team members reach new heights and drive our collective success.
How GitLab will support you
The base salary range for this role’s listed level is currently for residents of listed locations only. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data. See more information on our benefits and equity. Sales roles are also eligible for incentive pay targeted at up to 100% of the offered base salary.
California/Colorado/Hawaii/New Jersey/New York/Washington/DC/Illinois/Minnesota pay range
$84,000 – $180,000 USD
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