Manager & Talent Enablement Lead
About The Position
At Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations. About the role We’re looking for a Manager & Talent Enablement Lead who will design and drive the programs that accelerate employee impact - from onboarding through ongoing manager capability. This role owns company-wide onboarding, manager enablement, and core talent programs that embed performance expectations into our operating rhythms. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who thinks in systems, designs for scale, and believes great companies are built through strong managers.
Requirements
- 6-10 years experience in an L&D, Organization Development, People Business Partner, or People Programs role
- Deep experience building manager enablement programs
- Systems thinker who connects onboarding to performance and retention
- Strong facilitator and communicator
- Comfortable influencing senior leaders
- Data-driven and outcome-driven
- Located in the San Francisco Bay Area
Responsibilities
- Own the vision and architecture for Company onboarding across all functions and levels
- Own and evolve full-cycle onboarding programs, from pre-boarding through the first 30, 60, 90 days, ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience for new hires
- Design performance based frameworks that define what success looks like at 30/60/90 days
- Equip managers with the guidance, expectations, and tools needed to effectively onboard new team members.
- Establish new hire feedback loops and continuous improvement cycles
- Develop and maintain manager-facing toolkits, playbooks, and resources
- Partner with People Ops on seamless logistics execution
- Design and deliver manager fundamentals programming
- Create practical tools for feedback, performance management, and coaching
- Embed leadership expectations grounded in company values
- Partner with PBPs to address capability gaps surfaced in talent reviews
- Build scalable enablement (toolkits, playbooks, workshops, async resources)
- Support calibration and talent review processes
- Build resources that clarify “what great looks like” by role and level
- Partner on promotion and performance cycles to reinforce clarity
- Embed talent insights into operating rhythms alongside business reviews
- Design success metrics for onboarding and manager effectiveness
- Track new hire ramp time, retention, engagement and feedback
- Assess manager capability by performance outcomes
- Use data to iterate and improve programs
Benefits
- A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
- Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
- A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
- Competitive stock options program and location-based salary
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
