Senior Org Effectiveness and Talent Development Manager

Who We Are

Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.

At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte!

Why This Role is Exciting

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 may vary based on eligibility/location

Our Company Values

• Customer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset.

• Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes.

• Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next.

• Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success.

• Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve.
  

Please note that background checks are required. Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may have access to highly sensitive data, including employee data, customer data, company financials, and proprietary product information.

We love building strong partnerships, but please note that Optro cannot accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Any submissions without a signed agreement in place will not create a fee obligation.

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