Senior Director, Talent Acceleration (US) & Global Head of Learning & Development

At SharkNinja, we’re building an AI-native culture. We’re not waiting for the future; we’re creating it. Our people are expected to experiment boldly, adopt new tools, and continuously raise what’s possible to create meaningful impact for our consumers. If you believe the best way to do your job hasn’t been invented yet, you’ll fit right in.

At SharkNinja, culture is our engine for growth — our True Edge and our competitive advantage. We keep the owner-founder ethos and the fierce, winning spirit that shapes how we build teams, develop talent, and win. This role sits at the centre of that: it turns our culture and our ambitions for our people into learning experiences that change how Sharks lead, manage, and perform. 

This is a dual-mandate role. On one side, you lead Learning & Development globally — accountable for building a high-performing L&D practice across every region. On the other, you lead Talent Acceleration delivery in the US, owning how our practices land day to day for Sharks across the Americas. You will run both in a matrix — building the L&D capability that other regions draw on, while delivering the full tX agenda where you sit. 

Global Learning & Development practice 

• Practice and strategy: own the vision, standard, and roadmap for L&D globally — a high-performing practice in multimodal instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology, coherent across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
• Design and development: build learning experiences across our priorities — reinforcing our culture, building our managers and leaders, and upskilling our employees — using the full range of modalities (in-person, virtual, digital, social, on-the-job, and AI-enabled).
• Signature programs: own our global onboarding experience that immerses new hires in our culture and accelerates their impact, our manager and leadership capability build, and the culture programs that embed how we work into the organization.
• Learning technology and systems: own the learning technology stack and the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that let learning scale — selecting, integrating, and getting value from the tools that carry the practice.
• Measurement and impact: define how we measure learning — from engagement to capability to business outcome — and use the data to sharpen what we build and retire what does not earn its place.
• AI-native learning: build L&D for an AI-first company — weaving AI into how learning is designed, delivered, and scaled, and into what Sharks are learning, in step with our Jailbreak AI Academy and AI capability work. 

US Talent Acceleration delivery 

• Regional delivery lead: own how the full Talent Acceleration agenda — culture, learning and leadership development, succession, and performance — is delivered for Sharks across the Americas, the US peer to our regional tX leads in EMEA and APAC.
• Team leadership: lead, develop, and grow the US tX team, setting priorities, raising the bar on delivery, and building the bench.
• Business partnership: partner with US business and P&C leaders to translate enterprise tX priorities into what actually lands in the region, and bring regional signal back into the global practice.
• Execution and operations: run the calendars, cadences, and delivery mechanics that keep the regional agenda moving — on time, on quality, and visibly connected to our priorities. 

Leading in the matrix 

• Functional assignment: your US team reports to you directly and flexes onto the priorities that need them most — effort follows what matters, not fixed lanes.
• Global design, local delivery: place L&D talent in other geographies as needs require, keeping design consistent globally while delivery stays close to the business. 

• Builds L&D from a set of programs into a high-performing, measurable practice that managers, leaders, and employees experience as real capability.
• Leads confidently in a matrix — holding a clear global L&D standard while delivering the full tX agenda in the US, and keeping accountability clean where talent is shared across lines.
• Ships learning experiences that visibly move our priorities — culture, manager and leadership capability, and workforce upskilling — and can prove the impact with data.
• Builds and grows a strong US tX team and a global L&D bench, developing people and raising delivery quality.
• Influences senior decision-makers with a solution-oriented approach; comfortable presenting to, and being challenged by, executive stakeholders.
• A curious, courageous builder — rolls up sleeves where it counts, embraces obstacles, and holds a long-term view on capability. 

• Proven leadership of a Learning & Development function or practice — across instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology — ideally at global scale.
• Track record designing and facilitating high-impact learning across multiple modalities, including manager, leadership, and culture / onboarding programs.
• Experience leading in a matrix — managing solid-line reports across geographies and delivering through shared or dotted-line talent.
• Strong measurement and data orientation: defines learning metrics, reads the trends, and uses them to drive investment and design decisions.
• Comfort with AI-enabled ways of working and enthusiasm for building AI-forward learning.
• Advanced degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Learning, Education, Human Resources, or a related field, with 10+ years of progressive experience; or equivalent depth. People-leadership experience required.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder skills; strong program and project management across competing priorities. 

At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day.  Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.

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