ETS
Sr. Manager Leadership Growth & Succession
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Princeton, NJ
🕑 Part-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ August 13th, 2025
Psychometrics
Edtech.com's Summary
ETS is hiring a Sr. Manager Leadership Growth & Succession. This role involves designing, launching, and optimizing leadership development programs and modernizing talent review and succession planning by leveraging data-driven, skills-centric approaches to support an AI-powered workforce across the global organization.
Highlights
- Lead multi-level management and leadership development programs embedding coaching, mentorship, and experiential learning tailored to leadership needs.
- Redesign and execute talent review and succession planning processes using comprehensive skill assessments and analytics.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to foster a global skills taxonomy and support organizational adoption of leadership initiatives.
- Drive collaboration to promote an AI-native approach within talent management and learning functions.
- Require 8+ years in Talent Management, Learning & Development, or Organizational Effectiveness with experience in global transformational programs.
- Strong skills in data analysis, change leadership, stakeholder influence, and project management supporting dynamic organizational environments.
- Preferred experience in education technology, AI-driven HR solutions, and hybrid organizational structures.
- Critical skills include influencing without authority, execution discipline, strategic communication, resilience, and systems thinking.
- Familiarity with AI concepts applied to talent management and learning is desirable.
- No direct reports; part-time/hybrid position with a focus on cultural and organizational change within a complex global setting.
Sr. Manager Leadership Growth & Succession Full Description
Sr. Manager Leadership Growth & Succession
- Job Tracking ID : 83080-365692
- Job Level : Any
- Job Type : Part-Time/Hybrid
- Date Updated : 08/13/2025
- Years of Experience : Not Applicable
- Will this position have direct reports? : false
Job Description
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization driven by our mission to empower human progress through the science of measurement. We are at an exciting and pivotal moment, rapidly expanding our focus beyond traditional assessments into dynamic learning and skills development solutions, championing a future-ready, AI-powered, skills-based economy. Our Human Progress Commitment pledges to prepare over 100 million people for the next generation of jobs by 2035, leveraging our deep research in psychometrics, innovative solutions like the Futurenav™ suite, and global partnerships to drive equity, opportunity, and impactful outcomes worldwide.
This role offers an exceptional opportunity to help shape and accelerate ETS’s transformation during a pivotal period of growth and innovation. As Sr. Manager, you’ll play a critical part in designing, launching, and optimizing management and leadership development programs that enable an AI-enabled, future-ready talent pipeline. You’ll also be critically involved in efforts to modernize talent review and succession planning, ensuring our approaches are data-driven, skills-centric, and aligned with the demands of an AI-powered workforce. By embedding skills-first methods and leveraging advanced assessment tools, your work will empower leaders at all levels across our global organization.
Responsibilities:
Drive Management & Leadership Development Framework & Programs:
Deliver and continuously enhance a multi-level management and leadership development framework that serves managers, emerging leaders, high-potential talent, and senior executives. Activate programs that reflect ETS’s progression toward an AI-powered, skills-based organization, embedding robust coaching, mentorship, and experiential learning such as rotational assignments and cross-functional projects tailored to key leadership moments and personalized leader needs. Integrate smart assessment tools to pinpoint skill and capability gaps, enabling highly personalized learning journeys that fast-track growth and readiness. Your work will ensure ETS’s leaders are equipped to succeed in a high-performance, future-focused, and mission-driven environment.
Modernize Talent Assessment, Review & Succession Practices
Steer the strategic redesign and execution of ETS’s talent review and succession planning processes, transitioning from traditional methods to a dynamic, skills-centric framework. Integrate comprehensive skill assessments and analytics to ensure talent decisions are objective, equitable, and aligned with future capabilities. Establish processes to proactively identify emerging talent and high-potential employees, while fostering a culture where leaders continuously prioritize and actively engage in developing their teams. Cultivate a diverse, agile, and robust leadership pipeline, ensuring ETS has the right talent positioned effectively to advance its strategic transformation and drive organizational growth.
Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration & Foster a Skills-Centric, AI-Augmented Approach
Foster the development of ETS’s global skills taxonomy by clearly identifying and defining ETS's critical management and leadership capabilities. Partner closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business unit leaders to deploy targeted learning experiences, ensure organizational adoption, and effectively communicate management and leadership development initiatives across ETS. Serve as a catalyst in driving an AI-native approach within Talent Management and Learning, leveraging AI to enhance, augment, and accelerate your own processes and initiatives. Additionally, empower ETS leaders not only with foundational AI knowledge but also with insights into emerging AI trends, enabling them to actively foster environments where AI is embraced, responsibly utilized, and thoughtfully integrated into their teams and organizational strategies.
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization driven by our mission to empower human progress through the science of measurement. We are at an exciting and pivotal moment, rapidly expanding our focus beyond traditional assessments into dynamic learning and skills development solutions, championing a future-ready, AI-powered, skills-based economy. Our Human Progress Commitment pledges to prepare over 100 million people for the next generation of jobs by 2035, leveraging our deep research in psychometrics, innovative solutions like the Futurenav™ suite, and global partnerships to drive equity, opportunity, and impactful outcomes worldwide.
This role offers an exceptional opportunity to help shape and accelerate ETS’s transformation during a pivotal period of growth and innovation. As Sr. Manager, you’ll play a critical part in designing, launching, and optimizing management and leadership development programs that enable an AI-enabled, future-ready talent pipeline. You’ll also be critically involved in efforts to modernize talent review and succession planning, ensuring our approaches are data-driven, skills-centric, and aligned with the demands of an AI-powered workforce. By embedding skills-first methods and leveraging advanced assessment tools, your work will empower leaders at all levels across our global organization.
Responsibilities:
Drive Management & Leadership Development Framework & Programs:
Deliver and continuously enhance a multi-level management and leadership development framework that serves managers, emerging leaders, high-potential talent, and senior executives. Activate programs that reflect ETS’s progression toward an AI-powered, skills-based organization, embedding robust coaching, mentorship, and experiential learning such as rotational assignments and cross-functional projects tailored to key leadership moments and personalized leader needs. Integrate smart assessment tools to pinpoint skill and capability gaps, enabling highly personalized learning journeys that fast-track growth and readiness. Your work will ensure ETS’s leaders are equipped to succeed in a high-performance, future-focused, and mission-driven environment.
Modernize Talent Assessment, Review & Succession Practices
Steer the strategic redesign and execution of ETS’s talent review and succession planning processes, transitioning from traditional methods to a dynamic, skills-centric framework. Integrate comprehensive skill assessments and analytics to ensure talent decisions are objective, equitable, and aligned with future capabilities. Establish processes to proactively identify emerging talent and high-potential employees, while fostering a culture where leaders continuously prioritize and actively engage in developing their teams. Cultivate a diverse, agile, and robust leadership pipeline, ensuring ETS has the right talent positioned effectively to advance its strategic transformation and drive organizational growth.
Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration & Foster a Skills-Centric, AI-Augmented Approach
Foster the development of ETS’s global skills taxonomy by clearly identifying and defining ETS's critical management and leadership capabilities. Partner closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business unit leaders to deploy targeted learning experiences, ensure organizational adoption, and effectively communicate management and leadership development initiatives across ETS. Serve as a catalyst in driving an AI-native approach within Talent Management and Learning, leveraging AI to enhance, augment, and accelerate your own processes and initiatives. Additionally, empower ETS leaders not only with foundational AI knowledge but also with insights into emerging AI trends, enabling them to actively foster environments where AI is embraced, responsibly utilized, and thoughtfully integrated into their teams and organizational strategies.
Experience and Skills
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum of 8+ years of progressive experience in Talent Management, Learning & Development, or Organizational Effectiveness roles, with significant experience in designing and implementing global, transformational programs.
- Demonstrated expertise in leading and building comprehensive leadership development, talent review, and succession planning programs.
- Demonstrated experience in driving cultural and organizational change initiatives, ideally in a 'build' or 'overhaul' context.
- Exceptional data analysis and workforce intelligence skills, with proven experience in translating talent data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for senior leadership.
- Demonstrated proficiency in change leadership, stakeholder influence, and clear, transparent communication in a rapidly evolving, 'build mode' environment.
- Strong project management skills, with a track record of conceptualizing, building, and launching successful programs from scratch.
- Ability to navigate and thrive within a complex, globally distributed, non-profit/for-profit hybrid organizational structure.
Preferred Experiences
- Experience within the education technology (EdTech) or assessment industry.
- Direct experience implementing skills taxonomies, internal talent marketplaces, or AI-driven HR solutions.
- Experience in both corporate and non-profit environments, or within a hybrid organizational structure.
- Familiarity with AI concepts and their application in talent management and learning.
Skills Required for Success
- Influencing Without Authority: Critical for driving adoption, change, and alignment across ETS’s matrixed structures, especially when formal hierarchies don’t guarantee buy-in.
- Execution Discipline: Maintains focus and delivers results in a fast-moving, build-mode environment by breaking complex goals into clear priorities, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Decision Making in Ambiguity: Enables confident, pragmatic calls when building, scaling, and adapting programs in fast-moving, imperfect-data environments.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Ensures sustained progress on key initiatives by bridging diverse perspectives with HR, business units, leaders so transformation is seamless and genuinely organizational.
- Organizational Savvy: Advances initiatives effectively by understanding ETS’s formal and informal decision-making networks, building trust, and avoiding missteps in a sensitive, high-visibility environment.
- Resilience: Powers through obstacles, transformation pains, and setbacks so teams and projects sustain momentum and morale stays high in a demanding, shifting organization.
- Adaptability: Allows rapid pivoting in response to changing priorities, structures, or market factors; turns uncertainty into opportunity, fueling growth.
- Strategic Communication: Drives organization-wide understanding, engagement, and action crucial for socializing new concepts, framing strategy, and activating change.
- Change Leadership: Shapes and sustains transformation initiatives that cut across geographies and teams, keeping energy high and progress on track in a constantly evolving environment.
- Systems Thinking: Ensures leadership growth and succession strategies align with ETS’s broader transformation, anticipating downstream impacts across products, processes, and people.
- Data Storytelling: Translates complex talent and leadership analytics into clear, compelling narratives that influence executives, inspire stakeholders, and drive informed action.
- Talent Assessment & Succession Planning: Keeps ETS’s leadership pipeline future-ready by objectively identifying, developing, and deploying best-fit talent in line with skills-first metrics and strategic needs
- Program Design: Delivers scalable talent and leadership programs tailored to ETS’s unique skill needs and transformation goals; underpins measurable impact at every level.
- AI Literacy & Enablement: Positions ETS at the forefront of HR innovation ensuring leaders and teams leverage technology smartly as transformation accelerates.
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ETS is mission driven and action oriented
- We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
- We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. Â In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
- As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. Â At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.
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