Senior Manager, Learning & Development

• Design and oversee leadership development initiatives for key stakeholder groups (e.g., Practice Group Chairs, people leaders, and emerging leaders).
• Support coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and high-potential development initiatives.
• Establish development programs that strengthen leadership, management, communication, delegation, coaching, business development, and strategic thinking capabilities.

• Partner with the AI committee and the AI facilitator to define the firm's digital fluency and AI capability-building agenda.
• Partner with Technology and Professional Development teams to identify emerging skills requirements.
• Design learning programs that help individuals effectively leverage technology, AI, and evolving ways of working.
• Ensure employees have access to practical, relevant, and role-specific digital learning experiences.

• Personally design, develop and facilitate selected high-impact learning programs.
• Engage and manage external facilitators, coaches, and learning partners where appropriate.
• Build and maintain a network of internal subject matter experts who contribute to learning delivery.
• Ensure learning experiences are engaging, practical, and focused on measurable outcomes.
• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on program development, facilitation and implementation.

• Partner with the Professional Development, Legal Talent, and HR teams to support development planning and career growth.
• Help establish consistent development approaches across the firm.
• Support initiatives related to onboarding, performance development, succession planning, mentorship, and talent acceleration.
• Develop tools and resources that support individual growth and career ownership.

• Establish learning metrics, success measures, and reporting frameworks.
• Evaluate program effectiveness and continuously improve offerings.
• Track participation, engagement, capability growth, and business impact.
• Manage learning budgets, vendors, and technology platforms.
• Provide leadership, coaching and direction to learning resources, including the Training Coordinator, internal subject matter experts and external learning partners.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, organizational development, talent development, leadership development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide learning strategies.
• Demonstrated facilitation experience with leadership, professional services or corporate audiences.
• Experience building learning programs from the ground up rather than operating within a mature learning function.
• Experience leading and developing employees, project teams, or cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Strong curriculum design, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and driving change across complex professional environments.
• Strong project management and program evaluation capabilities.

• Experience within a professional services, legal, accounting, consulting, or knowledge-based organization.
• Experience leading leadership development and high-potential programs.
• Familiarity with digital capability development, AI adoption, and workforce transformation initiatives.
• Experience managing learning technologies and external learning providers.

Success in the First 24 Months

The successful candidate will:

• Establish a clear firm-wide L&D strategy and roadmap.
• Build a structured development framework for lawyers and business professionals.
• Launch digital fluency and AI capability programs.
• Introduce leadership development programming for key leadership populations.
• Improve onboarding and career development experiences.
• Implement development planning for targeted talent groups.
• Establish meaningful measurement of learning effectiveness and business impact.
• Build the foundation of a scalable learning function that grows with the firm.

Candidates who meet the above qualifications are asked to apply online with a copy of their resume and cover letter attached (preferably together in a single file).

The target salary range for this position is $110,000 – $140,000, commensurate with the successful candidate’s skills, experience, and qualifications.