Risepoint
Senior Director, Organizational & People Development
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Remote - US
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Full-Time
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TBD
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Other
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January 27th, 2026
LMS
Edtech.com's Summary
Risepoint is hiring a Senior Director, Organizational & People Development. This role leads an enterprise talent strategy integrating learning, organizational development, and leader enablement to build capabilities that deliver exceptional outcomes to university partners and adult learners. The position focuses on aligning development initiatives with business priorities, driving AI upskilling at scale, and ensuring measurable, inclusive learning experiences.
Highlights
- Own and evolve Risepoint's Organizational & People Development strategy, including AI Upskilling Program expansion aligned with business transformation.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team while defining roles and growth expectations.
- Scale and refine leader and manager development programs emphasizing organizational REACH values linked to business outcomes.
- Lead enterprise-wide organizational development initiatives improving leader effectiveness, team performance, role clarity, and adoption of new work models.
- Strengthen new hire orientation to accelerate time-to-impact and embed connection to company mission and culture.
- Build a modern learning ecosystem featuring LMS/LXP platforms, digital content, workshops, cohorts, and just-in-time performance support.
- Partner cross-functionally with People Leadership groups to integrate learning into career growth and culture initiatives.
- Implement systems for needs assessment, learning design, facilitation, and evaluation based on adult learning and instructional design principles.
- Establish measurement and analytics frameworks for learning effectiveness and provide executive reporting.
- Manage vendor relationships including facilitators, content providers, and assessment tools.
- Require 12+ years of progressive experience in organizational effectiveness and learning & development, 4+ years in team leadership, with proven success in scaling manager/leader programs tied to business outcomes.
- Prefer experience leading remote teams, designing scalable learning across functions, and strong stakeholder management; background in education technology or mission-driven organizations advantageous.
Senior Director, Organizational & People Development Full Description
Risepoint is an education technology company that provides world-class support and trusted expertise to more than 100 universities and colleges. We primarily work with regional universities, helping them develop and grow their high-ROI, workforce-focused online degree programs in critical areas such as nursing, teaching, business, and public service. Risepoint is dedicated to increasing access to affordable education so that more students, especially working adults, can improve their careers and meet employer and community needs.
The Impact You Will Make
As Senior Director of Organizational & People Development, you will lead an enterprise talent strategy that integrates learning, organizational development, and leader enablement to build the capabilities and effectiveness required to deliver exceptional outcomes to our university partners and the adult learners they serve. At this pivotal point in Risepoint's Business Transformation, you will align organizational development, learning and change enablement to business priorities and enable better execution, higher productivity and faster adoption of automation and AI.
Partnering closely with People Business Partners and cross-functional leaders, you will assess organizational needs, diagnose capability and operating barriers, and translate insights into targeted development and change interventions. You will design high-impact learning experiences and organizational development solutions that strengthen leader enablement, team effectiveness, role clarity, operating model adoption, and culture and behavior change—embedding development into the flow of work to accelerate sustainable results.
In this role, you will oversee and evolve existing flagship learning experiences while building scalable programs that reinforce critical skills and behaviors across the enterprise. A core focus is leading AI upskilling and adoption at scale. You will design and launch AI learning and change enablement programs that help teams use AI to improve quality, speed, and effectiveness in day-to-day work. You will ensure learning is accessible, inclusive, and measurable, modeling a learner-first mindset and using clear metrics to demonstrate impact and continuously improve.
What You Will Do
- Own and evolve Risepoint Organizational & People development strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned to Risepoint's strategic priorities including expanding Risepoint's AI Upskilling Program to meet the needs of the Business Transformation
- Lead a high-performing team; define roles, expectations, growth discussions, and ways of working
- Scale and refine Leader and Manager development programs to emphasize our REACH values and connect with clear business outcomes.
- Lead enterprise organizational development initiatives that strengthen leader effectiveness, team performance, role clarity, and adoption of new ways of working to enable sustainable change
- Strengthen Risepoint Orientation to accelerate time-to-impact while instilling a strong day one connection to Risepoint's mission, ways of working and shared expectations
- Build a modern learning ecosystem that enables Risepoint employees to learn and grow in their careers (LMS/LXP, curated digital content, targeted cohorts, live workshops, just-in-time performance support)
- Partner with cross-functional People Leadership - Talent Cultivation, People Business Partners, People Experience - to integrate learning into impact, career growth, succession planning, and culture initiatives
- Create systems and structures to lead needs assessments, learning design, facilitation strategies, and evaluation plans using adult learning and instructional design best practices
- Establish measurement and analytics for learning effectiveness (adoption, proficiency, behavior change, business impact) and communicate insights to executives
- Develop and manage the Organizational & People Development vendor strategy and external partnerships (facilitators, content providers, assessment tools)
What Success Looks Like
- Functional Leaders recognize the Organizational & People Development team as a trusted partner that delivers practical, high-quality solutions that drive business impact
- Managers and leaders have clear expectations and consistent, high-quality learning experiences that measurably improve team impact and employee engagement.
- Executing against an ambitious, business-aligned enterprise learning strategy that is developing an AI fluent, tech-forward workforce and accelerating Risepoint's business transformation
- Orientation is streamlined, scalable, and accelerates time to impact for new hires
How Impact Will be Measured in the First Year
- Launch an enterprise Org & People Development strategy and 12-18-month roadmap with prioritized programs, including phase 2 of the AI Upskilling Program, incorporating clear success metrics
- Evolve the Leadership Accelerator to increase differentiation and develop the right leadership skills in the right moment for people leaders
- Implement a learning measurement framework and dashboard (participation, completion, proficiency, and business outcomes where feasible); Build a sustainable operating rhythm with key stakeholders (quarterly needs reviews, governance, and program retrospectives)
- Establish a vendor and content strategy that increases organizational adoption and directly impacts business outcomes
Experience That Matters Most
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Organizational Effectiveness, Development and Learning & Development, with enterprise-level scope in a fast-growing company with more than 2500 employees
- 4+ years of team leadership, including coaching, impact management, and team development
- Demonstrated success designing and scaling manager/leader development and onboarding programs tied to business outcomes
- Led enterprise-wide organizational efforts related to building capability (leaders, teams) to operate differently and change management programs related not only to understanding change but more importantly driving adoption and measure mindset change and improved collaboration/decision-making
- Built toolkits for future-ready org design and workforce planning, delivering role clarity and data-driven insights that help leaders take action
- Data-driven approach to program evaluation, measurement, and continuous improvement; comfort translating insights for executive audiences
Experience That's Great to Have
- Experience leading remote teams and designing learning at scale across multiple functions
- Track record of leading change through influence, stakeholder management, and strong cross-functional partnership
- Background in education technology, higher education, B2B services, or mission-driven organizations
Risepoint is an equal-opportunity employer and supports a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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