Principal, Leadership Capability

NBCUniversal • Universal City, CA

2d • $77,100 - $135,100

About The Position

This role serves as the diagnostic and design engine of NBCUniversal's leadership development system. The Principal is responsible for identifying leadership capability gaps that impact business performance, translating these gaps into clear behavior targets, and designing practical development experiences that drive measurable behavior change. This role requires someone who can identify organizational needs and build solutions from the ground up, grounded in diagnosis, anchored to the Leadership Expectations Framework, and built with measurement in mind. The Principal will collaborate with Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, and HR Business Partners to interpret organizational signals and build leadership experiences that connect directly to business outcomes. This role is for a builder and a thinker, comfortable forming a point of view in ambiguity and translating it into actionable insights for leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in organizational development (OD), Industrial-Organizational Psychology, HR, or related field required, or equivalent demonstrated experience in leadership capability building or organizational effectiveness work.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in leadership development, organizational development, or talent management, with clear evidence of owning diagnosis and design, not just program delivery.
• Demonstrated experience diagnosing leadership capability gaps using organizational data, talent insights, or qualitative signals and translating that diagnosis into a clear, prioritized point of view on what needs to change.
• Experience designing and building leadership development experiences from scratch, including the ability to define what behavior change looks like and how it will be measured before design begins.
• Solid facilitation skills with the ability to hold senior leader audiences, create psychologically safe environments for honest dialogue, and guide conversations that translate expectations into practical behavior change.
• Proven ability to work as a strategic partner to HR Business Partners and senior business leaders, challenging thinking and holding a point of view under pressure.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex capability concepts into language that resonates with business leaders at all levels.
• Demonstrated comfort operating in ambiguity — building without a complete playbook, iterating quickly, and forming a point of view without waiting for perfect information.
• Consistent attendance is a job requirement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or contributing to a Leadership Expectations or Competency Framework in partnership with an external vendor or internal stakeholders.
• Familiarity with coaching governance, assessment frameworks, or HiPo programming.
• Experience working in a COE environment where standards and frameworks had to scale across multiple sites, geographies, or business units.
• Background in learning science, adult learning theory, or experience design.
• Experience in a complex, operationally intensive industry — entertainment, hospitality, retail, or similar — where leadership development had to be practical, fast, and business-relevant.
• Familiarity with global mindset considerations in leadership development — designing experiences that are relevant and equitable across geographically and culturally diverse leader populations.
• Graduate degree in organizational psychology, organizational development, or a related field, or equivalent professional certifications in coaching, assessment, or leadership development.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose leadership capability needs by interpreting organizational signals such as talent review data, employee engagement results, leadership performance indicators, and business outcomes to identify where leadership capability gaps are costing the organization most.
• Use the Leadership Expectations Framework as a diagnostic lens to identify critical areas for strengthening based on current business priorities.
• Translate diagnosis into a clear capability priority, articulating a defensible point of view on what must change first and why.
• Communicate capability priorities to leaders and stakeholders in practical, business-relevant terms, free of jargon, and make the case for why the work matters.
• Design leadership development experiences grounded in learning science and adult learning principles, with a focus on practical application and behavior change.
• Build measurement architecture into every experience from the outset, defining success metrics, behavior change indicators, and business linkages before design begins.
• Rapidly prototype and pilot solutions, gathering feedback early and iterating quickly.
• Co-create learning experiences with leaders to ensure relevance and ownership.
• Ensure every experience connects to and builds upon other elements of the leadership development system.
• Facilitate leadership development sessions, forums, and peer learning experiences when appropriate.
• Integrate AI and learning technologies to enhance development experiences, extend learning, and scale capability building.
• Track and report on metrics defined during the design phase to assess behavior shifts and their connection to business outcomes.
• Use measurement insights to continuously refine experiences, evolving the portfolio as organizational needs shift.
• Build a body of evidence demonstrating the value of leadership capability investment and its impact on the business.
• Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
• Consideration for employment of qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements.
• Right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal