Senior Talent Development Specialist

Chainlink Labs

2d•Remote

About The Position

We are hiring a Senior Talent Development Specialist to design and evolve the end-to-end talent development, manager enablement, and skills architecture at Chainlink Labs. This role is focused on journey architecture, experience design, and enablement systems, with an emphasis on building scalable frameworks while also facilitating them as needed. The focus is on designing the frameworks, experiences, and data foundations that enable employees and managers to grow, build skills, and navigate careers in a fast-moving Web3 environment. Working closely with People, Business, and Functional leaders, this role translates employee career growth as a key lever to retention and business performance, into cohesive talent journeys embedded in the flow of work. The role operates with high autonomy, exercises independent judgment, and is accountable for outcomes that impact talent readiness, manager effectiveness, and long-term organizational capability. This is a senior individual contributor role. While there is no people management responsibility, the role requires thought leadership, cross-functional influence, and the ability to shape direction at an organizational level.

Requirements

Deep expertise in talent development, manager enablement, skills-based talent systems, or organizational effectiveness
Demonstrate working fluency with AI tools, including comfort building and using lightweight app scripts or automations to support enablement, insights, and experimentation
Demonstrated ability to operate at a conceptual and systems level, particularly in ambiguous problem spaces
Strong independent judgment and comfort owning outcomes with organization-wide impact
Proven ability to influence across functions and senior stakeholders through clarity of thinking and narrative
Experience designing talent, manager, or skills journeys that integrate multiple touchpoints rather than isolated programs
Comfort operating in high-growth, distributed, or non-traditional environments

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree with at least 7+ years of related experience, or equivalent advanced degree and experience
Background spanning manager enablement, career architecture, skills frameworks, or talent systems design
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect talent capability to business outcomes
Experience using data and insights to inform design, prioritization, and iteration
Familiarity with learning and talent technologies as enablers, not drivers, of experience design

Responsibilities

Design and evolve the end-to-end talent development and manager enablement experience at Chainlink Labs, using a skills-based architecture to connect growth, capability, and talent decisions across the HR lifecycle.
Act as a subject matter expert in career development across functional and management paths, influencing through experience, data, and systems thinking
Partner with senior leaders and People stakeholders to translate business priorities into coherent talent experiences
Design and own end-to-end talent and manager journeys across functional and management career paths
Map manager journeys and identify high-ROI “moments that matter” where targeted enablement drives outsized impact
Architect scalable frameworks, tools, and guidance that enable managers and employees in the flow of work
Build and evolve a skills-based talent architecture that supports skill supply and demand, development, and internal mobility
Enable personalized learning and growth pathways through practical, skills-driven design
Generate skills and talent insights that inform hiring, development, deployment, and workforce decisions
Define success measures and use qualitative and quantitative signals to continuously improve talent and manager experiences