People Development Partner

Good Place Holdings•Stow, OH

About The Position

Good Place Holdings is seeking a People Development Partner to lead and steward its organization-wide approach to training, education, and development. The role shapes systems, strategies, and resources that support personal and professional growth, strengthen leadership capability, and connect everyday work to a greater purpose. Rather than owning every employee development plan, the People Development Partner equips leaders and managers to support their teams’ growth. This person designs scalable development pathways, leads feedback loops, oversees learning and talent technologies, and embeds development throughout the organization. The role also leads and supports the Training, Education, and Development (TED) team, partners with organizational leaders to identify capability needs, provides strategic oversight for job architecture and related development systems, and evaluates outcomes to improve programs. The position champions Good Place Holdings’ values and helps build purposeful, practical, values-aligned development systems across its organizations.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Learning and Development, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in learning and development, organizational development, talent development, or a related function.
Experience designing and leading development systems, programs, or strategies across an organization.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing leaders at multiple organizational levels.
Experience implementing or optimizing learning, performance, coaching, or talent-development systems across multiple teams or business units.
Experience using data to evaluate outcomes and leading change that results in sustained adoption.
Strategic and systems thinking.
Adult learning and instructional design.
Organizational and talent development.
Coaching and mentorship.
Program design and continuous improvement.
Facilitation and communication.
Relationship building and influence.
Data literacy and outcome evaluation.
Change and project leadership.
Empathy, adaptability, and curiosity.
Familiarity with, or openness to, the biblical and values-based foundation that informs Good Place Holdings’ understanding of growth, purpose, stewardship, and human flourishing.

Nice To Haves

Experience with LMS systems, particularly Cornerstone OnDemand learning and performance management systems.

Responsibilities

Steward the Training, Education, and Development strategy across Good Place Holdings organizations.
Lead and support the TED team, aligning priorities with the organization’s purpose, vision, and aims.
Design scalable development pathways that provide clear progression from entry to mastery.
Develop organization-wide feedback loops that strengthen development conversations, manager capability, organizational learning, and continuous improvement.
Lead enterprise approaches to mentorship, coaching, and personal and professional development.
Partner with organizational leaders to identify capability needs and establish development priorities.
Provide strategic oversight for job architecture, job descriptions, role-training matrices, and related development systems.
Set standards for learning resources, tools, data, reporting, and technology adoption.
Evaluate development outcomes and use insights to continuously strengthen programs and systems.
Champion a culture of humility, trust, curiosity, stewardship, lifelong learning, and human flourishing.
Model Good Place values through consistent leadership, relationships, decisions, and daily work.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.
Paid vacation and sick time.
Paid volunteer time.
Meaningful work supporting personal growth, professional development, and human flourishing.
Opportunity to shape development strategy and systems across multiple Good Place Holdings organizations.
Collaborative People Experience team committed to humility, trust, curiosity, stewardship, and continuous learning.
Opportunity to build and improve enterprise-wide programs, feedback discussions, learning pathways, and talent technologies.
Partnership with leaders across the organization and opportunity to influence long-term organizational health.
An environment encouraging thoughtful experimentation, shared learning, and continuous improvement.
Opportunities to grow personally and professionally while helping others reach their potential.