Managing Director, Head of Talent Management

Apollo•New York, NY

About The Position

The Head of Talent is the architect of the promise that winning starts with extraordinary people doing the best work of their careers. This is a senior, firmwide leadership position for someone who thinks like a principal, operates without walls, and believes that talent architecture is a competitive advantage. The role owns the processes, philosophy, and culture that allow Apollo to attract, develop, and retain the people who will shape the next 35 years of this firm. The position operates at the enterprise level, partnering with senior leadership, Human Capital colleagues, and business leaders across regions and functions to build a talent ecosystem that is cohesive, commercially grounded, and built to last. The bar is high, and the opportunity is exceptional.

Requirements

15+ years of progressive experience in talent management, leadership development, or human capital leadership; financial services or similarly complex, high-performance environments strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success designing and leading enterprise-level talent systems that drive performance and scale.
Strong consulting mindset combined with in-house execution experience; able to influence through insight and credibility rather than authority.
Proven ability to operate with senior leadership in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Exceptional judgment, discretion, and integrity.
Executive-level presence with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Strong analytical orientation; able to translate data and observation into action.
Experience leading and developing high-performing global teams.
Entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and results-oriented.
Comfortable being wrong, learning fast, and trying again.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve Apollo's firmwide talent management strategy — performance management, succession planning, talent assessment, and promotion processes.
Ensure talent systems operate as an integrated ecosystem with clear connectivity across the full employee lifecycle.
Serve as a senior thought partner to leadership on talent and culture.
Design and advance how Apollo develops its leaders and managers at every level.
Build a scalable, best-in-class approach to executive coaching and leadership development.
Act as a coach to senior leaders and key talent.
Oversee firmwide learning priorities, holding yourself and your team to Apollo's standard: relevance, rigor, and real impact.
Lead firmwide succession planning and talent mapping, improving visibility into leadership pipelines and readiness across the organization.
Elevate the quality and forward-looking nature of talent discussions with senior leadership.
Partner with business and HC leaders to ensure succession and development plans are actionable and actively managed.
Play a central role in driving organizational effectiveness tied to Apollo's continued growth and evolution.
Lead efforts to build AI fluency and capability from a people perspective — supporting both skill development and behavioral adoption.
Support leaders through change by strengthening change management, communication, and capability enablement.
Help the business and HCBPs with designing organizations that provide competitive advantage in an AI-first world.
Partner closely with HCBPs and Centers of Excellence — compensation, analytics, learning, HC Operations and Technology — to ensure alignment and disciplined execution across the talent ecosystem.
Contribute to senior leadership forums where talent, readiness, and organizational health are on the agenda.
Lead and develop a high-caliber global talent team; set clear expectations and high standards.
Model Apollo's culture in how you work — flat and informal, no walls, right over easy.
Drive continuous improvement through data, honest feedback, and a willingness to learn from what hasn't worked.
Model the tenants and philosophy that underpin What Makes Apollo Apollo.