Onboarding Program Manager

Burroughs•Elmhurst, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Onboarding Program Manager is responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving a cohesive, unified, and repeatable onboarding program for Burroughs’ technical workforce. This role sits within the Training organization and plays a critical role in accelerating speed to competency and confidence for new hires supporting Burroughs-serviced and installed products. This individual will leverage AI-enabled learning technologies, content curation and data-lake strategies, augmented reality (AR), and mentorship-style shadowing models to modernize onboarding across field service, technical support, and product-centric roles. The role blends instructional design, knowledge architecture, and emerging technology to ensure onboarding is scalable, measurable, and tightly aligned to operational outcomes.

Requirements

Systems thinking and learning architecture design.
Strong collaboration across technical and operational teams.
Ability to translate complex technical information into structured learning pathways.
Change leadership and influence without authority.
Data-driven decision making and continuous improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

2-5 years' experience supporting field service, ATM, POS, smart safe, robotics, or unattended technology environments.
Familiarity with AR/VR learning platforms.
Experience with AI-powered search or knowledge tools.
Background in instructional design models.
Experience aligning onboarding outcomes to service or customer performance metrics.

Responsibilities

Design and own a standardized, role-based onboarding framework that can be consistently deployed across products, regions, and technical roles.
Build structured onboarding journeys that blend digital learning, instructor-led or virtual sessions, mentorship-style shadowing, and hands-on labs and simulations.
Ensure onboarding content progresses logically from foundational knowledge to job-ready execution.
Leverage AI technologies to surface relevant onboarding content contextually, reduce time spent searching for technical information, and improve learner confidence during early field assignments.
Partner with relevant teams to aggregate technical content into a centralized, searchable knowledge data lake.
Apply metadata, tagging, and taxonomy standards to ensure content is discoverable and continuously usable.
Identify and inventory all pockets of technical content across the organization.
Curate, normalize, and structure content into a single source of truth for onboarding and early-tenure support.
Establish governance for content quality, ownership, and lifecycle management.
Incorporate augmented reality (AR) and immersive learning approaches to support equipment familiarity, installation workflows, and maintenance and troubleshooting procedures.
Collaborate with SMEs and vendors to align AR use cases to real-world field scenarios.
Design scalable mentorship-style onboarding models that pair new hires with experienced technicians or specialists.
Create structured shadowing plans, observation checklists, and skill validation milestones.
Ensure consistency and quality across regions while allowing for local operational nuance.
Define onboarding KPIs tied to operational outcomes such as time to first independent job, time to productivity, early-tenure error rates or callbacks, and new-hire confidence metrics.
Use data and feedback to continuously refine onboarding pathways and learning assets.