Director, Talent Partner & Planning (HRBP)

Leading Educators Careers

1d • Remote

About The Position

Are you a strategic talent leader who thrives as a thought partner to senior managers? Do you see workforce planning not as an administrative function, but as a competitive advantage that drives organizational execution? Leading Educators is seeking a Director, Talent Partner & Planning to own our talent systems and serve as a trusted advisor to our leadership team.
In this role, you'll operate within our Service Embedded HR Delivery Model—meaning you're not sitting in an HR silo. You'll be embedded alongside our leaders, deeply understanding our organizational priorities, staffing realities, and operational challenges. You'll translate that insight into proactive talent solutions that directly enable execution. This is partnership at its finest: you'll sit at the table with senior leaders, bring data-driven recommendations, and help shape how we deploy our people to maximize impact.
Here's what you'll actually be doing day-to-day. You'll serve as a primary coach to our managers across the organization, strengthening their ability to lead teams effectively. You'll guide managers through high-stakes people decisions—role clarity, goal setting, feedback, performance development, and team structure. You'll identify patterns in manager effectiveness and systematically build leadership capability across Leading Educators. When a manager is struggling to develop their team, you'll be the thought partner who diagnoses the challenge and equips them with solutions. When we're making critical staffing or performance decisions, you'll bring judgment, data, and perspective that helps leaders move forward with confidence.
For our program staff who work directly with external partners, you'll own the workforce planning and capacity management system. You'll design and continuously refine how we allocate staff across work, ensuring clear visibility into capacity and enabling leaders to make informed hiring and staffing decisions. This means facilitating biweekly capacity planning meetings, translating workforce data into actionable insights, and ensuring workforce planning is an active, ongoing system—not a static process. You'll own onboarding strategy, internal transitions, performance management operationalization, and the systems that make all of this work seamlessly.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in talent management, workforce planning, organizational development, or talent operations
• Demonstrated experience managing teams and coaching other managers to lead effectively, with evidence of improving manager performance and team outcomes
• Proven ability to influence and develop leaders beyond your direct reporting lines
• Strong experience in workforce planning, staffing allocation, or resource planning systems
• Demonstrated ability to coach managers on performance management, goal setting, and employee development
• Experience operating in complex, fast-paced, or mission-driven environments
• Strong analytical and systems thinking skills with the ability to translate data into action
• Experience with HRIS, performance systems, or workforce planning tools
• Demonstrated learning agility and ability to build and apply new capabilities, including AI-enabled workflows

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary coach to our managers across the organization, strengthening their ability to lead teams effectively.
• Guide managers through high-stakes people decisions—role clarity, goal setting, feedback, performance development, and team structure.
• Identify patterns in manager effectiveness and systematically build leadership capability across Leading Educators.
• Own the workforce planning and capacity management system.
• Design and continuously refine how we allocate staff across work, ensuring clear visibility into capacity and enabling leaders to make informed hiring and staffing decisions.
• Facilitate biweekly capacity planning meetings, translating workforce data into actionable insights, and ensuring workforce planning is an active, ongoing system—not a static process.
• Own onboarding strategy, internal transitions, performance management operationalization, and the systems that make all of this work seamlessly.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for individual employees. Additional premium costs are covered 60% by Leading Educators for partners and dependents on medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 4% matching 401k plan, Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, childcare and commuter expenses, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP). Benefits are valued at or above $9,000 for employees.
• First three years of employment, full time staff accrue 22 days a year.
• Five additional days are accrued after the third and sixth year of employment.
• Leading Educators also offer 22 additional paid days off for various holidays, including three floating holidays staff may use at their discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees