Cornerstone OnDemand
Senior Director, Effectiveness
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $169K - $271K
💻 Operations
🗓️ June 13th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Cornerstone is hiring a Senior Director, Effectiveness. This role involves driving strategic learning programs to enhance knowledge, skills, and capabilities across sales, customer, and partner ecosystems. The position requires leading a team to ensure learning initiatives are business-critical operations using Agile and Design Thinking methodologies for impactful results.
Highlights
- Lead comprehensive learning effectiveness strategy to support business objectives.
- Manage program managers to run learning initiatives as business operations.
- Implement Agile methodologies to adapt learning programs to business needs.
- Apply Design Thinking to understand audience needs and develop learning solutions.
- Establish frameworks for ongoing program optimization and effectiveness analysis.
- Collaborate with sales, customer, partner teams, and product management.
- Develop performance analytics to show business impact of learning initiatives.
- Oversee a high-performing team, fostering accountability and innovation.
- Require 10+ years in learning program management with 5+ in senior roles.
- Base salary range: $169,200 - $270,700 USD.
Senior Director, Effectiveness Full Description
Senior Director, Effectiveness - United States
Remote, United States
We're looking for a
Senior Director, Effectiveness - United States
This role is Remote, United States
The Senior Director of Effectiveness is responsible for driving measurable business outcomes through strategic learning programs that build critical knowledge, skills, and capabilities across our sales, customer, and partner ecosystems. This player-coach role will lead a high-performing team of program managers who operate learning initiatives as business-critical operations, embodying and championing Agile values and continuous improvement principles within Cornerstone U. The Senior Director will leverage Design Thinking and Agile methodologies to create responsive, iterative learning solutions that prioritize business impact over activity metrics, learner experience over rigid structures, value creation over perfectionism, and adaptability over prescriptiveness—ensuring our programs deliver tangible results that advance organizational performance.
In this role you will be responsible for:
The Senior Director of Effectiveness is responsible for driving measurable business outcomes through strategic learning programs that build critical knowledge, skills, and capabilities across our sales, customer, and partner ecosystems. This player-coach role will lead a high-performing team of program managers who operate learning initiatives as business-critical operations, embodying and championing Agile values and continuous improvement principles within Cornerstone U. The Senior Director will leverage Design Thinking and Agile methodologies to create responsive, iterative learning solutions that prioritize business impact over activity metrics, learner experience over rigid structures, value creation over perfectionism, and adaptability over prescriptiveness—ensuring our programs deliver tangible results that advance organizational performance.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Strategic Program Leadership: Develop and execute a comprehensive learning effectiveness strategy that directly supports business objectives and measurable outcomes across sales, customer, and partner ecosystems.
- Business-Driven Learning Management: Lead program managers in running learning initiatives as business operations—overseeing scheduling, organization, monitoring, maintenance, reporting, and effectiveness analysis to drive tangible business results
- .Agile Methodology Implementation: Champion Agile approaches within the organization, applying Plan-Do-Review-Adapt cycles to ensure programs remain responsive to evolving business needs.
- Continuous Improvement: Establish frameworks for ongoing program optimization through data analysis, learner feedback, and business impact metrics to continuously enhance effectiveness.
- Design Thinking Application: Apply human-centered design principles to deeply understand audience needs and create innovative learning solutions that address core business challenges.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with sales leadership, customer organization, partner teams, product management, and other stakeholders to ensure learning initiatives directly support strategic priorities.
- Performance Analytics: Develop comprehensive metrics and analytics approaches that demonstrate the direct business impact of learning initiatives on sales performance, customer success, and partner effectiveness.
- Team Leadership: Mentor and develop a high-performing team of program managers, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and business focus.
You have what it takes if you have…
- 10+ years of experience in learning program management, sales enablement, or related fields, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles managing complex learning operations
- Proven business acumen and ability to translate learning initiatives into measurable business outcomes
- Demonstrated expertise in applying Agile methodologies to learning operations, with success in iterative program development
• Experience running learning programs as business operations with accountability for results
- Proven track record of using Design Thinking and human-centered approaches to create impactful learning solutions that solve business challenges
- Exceptional leadership capabilities with the ability to build and develop high-performing teams
- Strong analytical skills for measuring program effectiveness and driving data-informed decisions
- Experience fostering cross-functional collaboration and influencing across organizational levels
- Knowledge of learning technologies, analytics platforms, and tools that support program effectiveness
• Adaptability and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced technology environment
Our Culture:
Spark Greatness. Shatter Boundaries. Share Success. Are you ready? Because here, right now – is where the future of work is happening. Where curious disruptors and change innovators like you are helping communities and customers enable everyone – anywhere – to learn, grow and advance. To be better tomorrow than they are today.
Who We Are:
Cornerstone powers the potential of organizations and their people to thrive in a changing world. Cornerstone Galaxy, the complete AI-powered workforce agility platform, meets organizations where they are. With Galaxy, organizations can identify skills gaps and development opportunities, retain and engage top talent, and provide multimodal learning experiences to meet the diverse needs of the modern workforce. More than 7,000 organizations and 100 million+ users in 180+ countries and in nearly 50 languages use Cornerstone Galaxy to build high-performing, future-ready organizations and people today.
Total Rewards:
At Cornerstone, we are dedicated to inspiring excellence and pushing boundaries in everything we do. Our compensation strategy is based on three fundamental principles: equitable pay, market-driven research, and skill-based appraisals. As part of our mission to share success and empower individuals to thrive in an ever-changing world, the listed salary range is just one element of Cornerstone’s comprehensive compensation package. This compensation package may also include annual bonuses, short- and program-specific awards depending on the role, and a comprehensive benefit offering. The disclosed salary range reflects the geographic differential based on the location of the position if applicable. The starting salary for the successful applicant will depend on several job-related factors, including education, training, experience, certifications, location, business needs, and market demands. This range is based on a full-time position and may be adjusted in the future. Join us in shaping the future of work — tomorrow, together. Experience flexibility and empowerment in your career at Cornerstone. The BASE salary range for this position is: 169200 - 270700 USD.
Equal Employment Opportunity has been, and will continue to be, a fundamental commitment at Cornerstone OnDemand. All qualified applicants are given consideration regardless of race, religion, color, gender, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class as provided in applicable Federal, State, or Local fair employment laws. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at careers@csod.com or +1 855 454 8433.
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