Senior Manager, Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness
About The Position
UTA is seeking a strategic, highly organized Senior Manager of Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness to join its People team. The role translates enterprise leadership and talent strategies into coordinated delivery across performance management, leadership development, coaching, career frameworks, and team effectiveness. The Senior Manager manages these workstreams from planning through implementation, partnering with People Business Partners, People Operations, leaders, and external partners to drive adoption, consistency, and measurable impact. The position combines program management with hands-on design, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement. It involves building integrated plans; developing practical tools and resources; coordinating communications; tracking milestones and risks; resolving implementation issues; and supporting evaluation and continuous improvement. The role reports to the SVP of Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness and helps scale UTA's leadership and organizational effectiveness agenda.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience in leadership development, talent management, organizational development, performance management, HR program management, or a related field, including delivery of enterprise or multi-stakeholder programs.
- Ability to translate strategy and design into structured plans, practical tools, coordinated implementation, and sustained follow-through.
- Strong program and project management skills, including experience managing multiple workstreams, dependencies, timelines, risks, stakeholders, and vendors.
- Experience supporting or delivering leadership and manager development, performance management, talent or succession processes, coaching programs, or team-effectiveness work.
- Strong facilitation and presentation skills, with judgment to support leaders and People partners in complex, challenging, and high-visibility environments.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, including the ability to build trust, influence without authority, and tailor messages for different audiences.
- Ability to create clear, high-quality plans, frameworks, toolkits, communications, presentations, and facilitator materials.
- Comfort using data and feedback to track progress, identify themes, assess effectiveness, and inform recommendations.
- Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, discretion, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
- Ability to balance strategic context with hands-on execution in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business, Learning and Development, or a related field.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree or relevant certification.
- Experience in entertainment, media, professional services, or another relationship-driven business.
Responsibilities
- Develop, deliver, and program-manage management and leadership development experiences; facilitate live experiences; create practical tools and resources; coordinate communications, logistics, evaluation, and, when needed, facilitators or vendors.
- Manage performance-cycle execution, including tools, communications, stakeholder readiness, timelines, tracking, issue resolution, and reporting.
- Support team-effectiveness consultation and diagnostics; design and facilitate workshops; coordinate follow-through; and capture themes, outcomes, and impact.
- Manage the executive coaching portfolio, including coach-pool administration, intake, matching logistics, engagement tracking, reporting, and scalable coaching solutions for managers and leaders.
- Support talent assessment and succession processes, including tools, data coordination, review preparation, action tracking, leader follow-up, and high-potential program coordination.
- Support development and implementation of UTA's leadership expectations and career frameworks, including practical tools and resources and their integration into talent processes and development.
- Evaluate effectiveness using participation, stakeholder feedback, process data, and other agreed measures; identify improvement opportunities and support ongoing iteration.
- Build and maintain integrated plans across Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness priorities, managing milestones, dependencies, risks, status reporting, and follow-through in partnership with People Operations where applicable.
- Partner with People Business Partners, People Operations, People Systems, Communications, and business stakeholders to ensure programs are practical, aligned, and ready for implementation.
- Manage external consultants, coaches, facilitators, and vendors as needed, including scopes, deliverables, timelines, coordination, and quality follow-through.
- Contribute to cross-People Team initiatives and flex across Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness priorities as business needs evolve.
Benefits
- Access to tools, leadership, and resources to create and drive a center of excellence.
- Opportunity to do the best work of your career.
- Inclusive and diverse company culture.
- Competitive programs to support well-being.
- Collaborative environment with room to grow.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
