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ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.
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As the strategic owner of ZS's Leadership Development portfolio, you will partner with senior leaders throughout the organization to develop leaders who can navigate complexity, drive growth, build high-performing teams, and create lasting impact for our clients and people. Reporting to the Director of Global Learning, this role will work closely with the Chief People Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and other senior leaders across HR and the business. The position will oversee one direct report and serve as a coach, mentor, and capability builder across the broader Learning organization. The ideal candidate combines business acumen, executive influence, leadership development expertise, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. They are comfortable building programs from the ground up, earning executive sponsorship, and translating business priorities into impactful leadership experiences.
What you'll do
- Design and execute a multi-year leadership development strategy aligned with firm priorities, business objectives, and workforce planning.
- Define leadership readiness expectations and capability frameworks across key leadership transitions.
- Build a cohesive leadership journey that supports leaders from Manager through Associate Principal, Principal, and beyond.
- Identify current and future leadership capability gaps and develop innovative solutions to address them.
- Establish clear measures of leadership effectiveness and readiness aligned to business outcomes.
- Position ZS as the industry benchmark for Principal and leadership excellence.
- Program strategy and roadmap development
- Learning experience design
- Curriculum architecture
- Stakeholder engagement and governance
- Faculty identification and preparation
- Program communications
- Participant experience design
- Measurement and continuous improvement
- Budget and vendor management
- Earn trusted advisor status with executive leaders through credibility, insight, and business partnership.
- Facilitate leadership discussions, design sessions, governance forums, and planning meetings.
- Influence decisions without formal authority through strong recommendations, data, and relationship-building.
- Help leaders identify capability gaps and build development plans aligned to business priorities.
- Design and launch leadership programs from concept through implementation.
- Develop learning experiences grounded in real business challenges and organizational priorities.
- Leverage coaching, mentoring, cohort-based learning, peer learning, executive panels, simulations, and experiential learning approaches.
- Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to co-create relevant and impactful experiences.
- Continuously evaluate and improve program effectiveness based on participant, stakeholder, and business outcomes.
- Create compelling executive-level presentations, communications, and learning materials.
- Translate complex business and leadership concepts into engaging, practical learning experiences.
- Lead and develop one direct report.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and quality review support.
- Partner across Learning Strategy, Learning Enablement, Instructional Design, and Learning Operations teams.
- Build leadership development expertise and capability across the broader Learning organization.
What you will bring
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, learning strategy, consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success designing and scaling leadership programs that drive measurable business outcomes.
- Proven ability to build programs from concept through implementation, including securing executive buy-in and stakeholder sponsorship.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen, including the ability to leverage financial, operational, talent, and performance data to guide decisions.
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Advanced PowerPoint and presentation development capabilities.
- Experience creating compelling executive narratives and strategic communications.
- Strong project and program management capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience supporting Principal, Partner, executive, or senior leadership populations.
- Experience in professional services, consulting, technology, or similarly complex organizations.
- Experience with leadership assessments, succession planning, executive coaching, and talent acceleration.
- Experience facilitating leadership team sessions, workshops, and offsites.
- Experience managing external learning providers, faculty, and coaching partners.
- Coaching, facilitation, or organizational development certifications preferred.
:
How you’ll grow:
- Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
- Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
- Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions
Perks & Benefits:
At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well‑being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills‑building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in United States, visit ZS US office locations | Where we work | ZS.
Hybrid working model:
We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Travel:
Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.
Considering applying?
At ZS, we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences, and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are, and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are integral to your success here. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Learn more about our inclusion and belonging efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces and obtaining the resources they need to thrive.
If you’re eager to grow, contribute, and bring your unique self to our work, we encourage you to apply.
ZS is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities without regard to any class protected by applicable law.
Work Authorization:
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
To complete your application:
An on-line application, including a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial), is required to be considered.
NO AGENCY CALLS, PLEASE.
Find Out More At:
www.zs.com
ZS is a place where passion changes lives. As a management consulting and technology firm focused on improving life and how we live it, we transform ideas into impact by bringing together data, science, technology and human ingenuity to deliver better outcomes for all. Here you’ll work side-by-side with a powerful collective of thinkers and experts shaping life-changing solutions for patients, caregivers and consumers, worldwide. ZSers drive impact by bringing a client-first mentality to each and every engagement. We partner collaboratively with our clients to develop custom solutions and technology products that create value and deliver company results across critical areas of their business. Bring your curiosity for learning, bold ideas, courage and passion to drive life-changing impact to ZS.
:
As the strategic owner of ZS's Leadership Development portfolio, you will partner with senior leaders throughout the organization to develop leaders who can navigate complexity, drive growth, build high-performing teams, and create lasting impact for our clients and people. Reporting to the Director of Global Learning, this role will work closely with the Chief People Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and other senior leaders across HR and the business. The position will oversee one direct report and serve as a coach, mentor, and capability builder across the broader Learning organization. The ideal candidate combines business acumen, executive influence, leadership development expertise, strategic thinking, and operational excellence. They are comfortable building programs from the ground up, earning executive sponsorship, and translating business priorities into impactful leadership experiences.
What you'll do
- Design and execute a multi-year leadership development strategy aligned with firm priorities, business objectives, and workforce planning.
- Define leadership readiness expectations and capability frameworks across key leadership transitions.
- Build a cohesive leadership journey that supports leaders from Manager through Associate Principal, Principal, and beyond.
- Identify current and future leadership capability gaps and develop innovative solutions to address them.
- Establish clear measures of leadership effectiveness and readiness aligned to business outcomes.
- Position ZS as the industry benchmark for Principal and leadership excellence.
- Program strategy and roadmap development
- Learning experience design
- Curriculum architecture
- Stakeholder engagement and governance
- Faculty identification and preparation
- Program communications
- Participant experience design
- Measurement and continuous improvement
- Budget and vendor management
- Earn trusted advisor status with executive leaders through credibility, insight, and business partnership.
- Facilitate leadership discussions, design sessions, governance forums, and planning meetings.
- Influence decisions without formal authority through strong recommendations, data, and relationship-building.
- Help leaders identify capability gaps and build development plans aligned to business priorities.
- Design and launch leadership programs from concept through implementation.
- Develop learning experiences grounded in real business challenges and organizational priorities.
- Leverage coaching, mentoring, cohort-based learning, peer learning, executive panels, simulations, and experiential learning approaches.
- Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to co-create relevant and impactful experiences.
- Continuously evaluate and improve program effectiveness based on participant, stakeholder, and business outcomes.
- Create compelling executive-level presentations, communications, and learning materials.
- Translate complex business and leadership concepts into engaging, practical learning experiences.
- Lead and develop one direct report.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and quality review support.
- Partner across Learning Strategy, Learning Enablement, Instructional Design, and Learning Operations teams.
- Build leadership development expertise and capability across the broader Learning organization.
What you will bring
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in leadership development, organizational effectiveness, talent management, learning strategy, consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success designing and scaling leadership programs that drive measurable business outcomes.
- Proven ability to build programs from concept through implementation, including securing executive buy-in and stakeholder sponsorship.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong business acumen, including the ability to leverage financial, operational, talent, and performance data to guide decisions.
- Exceptional executive presence, communication, and facilitation skills.
- Advanced PowerPoint and presentation development capabilities.
- Experience creating compelling executive narratives and strategic communications.
- Strong project and program management capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience supporting Principal, Partner, executive, or senior leadership populations.
- Experience in professional services, consulting, technology, or similarly complex organizations.
- Experience with leadership assessments, succession planning, executive coaching, and talent acceleration.
- Experience facilitating leadership team sessions, workshops, and offsites.
- Experience managing external learning providers, faculty, and coaching partners.
- Coaching, facilitation, or organizational development certifications preferred.
:
How you’ll grow:
- Cross-functional skills development & custom learning pathways
- Milestone training programs aligned to career progression opportunities
- Internal mobility paths that empower growth via s-curves, individual contribution and role expansions
Perks & Benefits:
At ZS, your growth matters. We offer a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your health and well‑being, financial future, time away, and professional development. With robust skills‑building programs, multiple career progression paths, internal mobility, and a deeply collaborative culture, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, expand your capabilities, and thrive as part of a global community. For details on total rewards in United States, visit ZS US office locations | Where we work | ZS.
Hybrid working model:
We are committed to giving our employees a flexible and connected way of working. A flexible and connected ZS allows us to combine work from home and on-site presence at clients/ZS offices for the majority of our week. The magic of ZS culture and innovation thrives in both planned and spontaneous face-to-face connections.
Travel:
Travel is a requirement at ZS for client facing ZSers; business needs of your project and client are the priority. While some projects may be local, all client-facing ZSers should be prepared to travel as needed. Travel provides opportunities to strengthen client relationships, gain diverse experiences, and enhance professional growth by working in different environments and cultures.
Considering applying?
At ZS, we honor the visible and invisible elements of our identities, personal experiences, and belief systems—the ones that comprise us as individuals, shape who we are, and make us unique. We believe your personal interests, identities, and desire to learn are integral to your success here. We are committed to building a team that reflects a broad variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. Learn more about our inclusion and belonging efforts and the networks ZS supports to assist our ZSers in cultivating community spaces and obtaining the resources they need to thrive.
If you’re eager to grow, contribute, and bring your unique self to our work, we encourage you to apply.
ZS is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunities without regard to any class protected by applicable law.
Work Authorization:
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.
To complete your application:
An on-line application, including a full set of transcripts (official or unofficial), is required to be considered.
NO AGENCY CALLS, PLEASE.
Find Out More At:
www.zs.com
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in learning and development manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, education, organizational development, or a related field
- Experience designing and delivering training programs for adult learners in a corporate setting
- Proficiency with a learning management system such as Workday Learning, Cornerstone, or SAP SuccessFactors
- Ability to conduct training needs analyses and translate findings into curriculum plans
- ATD Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) or equivalent credential preferred
- Familiarity with instructional design tools such as Articulate 360 or Adobe Captivate
Tips for Your Learning And Development Manager Job Search
Quantify learning outcomes on your resume
L&D manager resumes get more traction when you tie programs to measurable results. Replace 'developed onboarding curriculum' with specifics like completion rates, time-to-productivity improvements, or manager satisfaction scores from post-training surveys.
Align your credentials to the posting
Certifications like ATD's CPTD or a SHRM credential carry weight in different companies. Read each job description closely and lead with whichever credential the employer signals matters most, rather than listing every certificate you hold.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists learning and development manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target companies by L&D maturity level
A startup building its first training function needs a generalist who can create from scratch. An enterprise with an existing L&D team wants a program specialist. Match your experience to the stage the company is actually at, not just the job title.
Prepare a portfolio of instructional samples
Hiring managers for L&D roles routinely ask for examples of course design, facilitator guides, or needs assessments. Bring at least two work samples to interviews, and be ready to walk through your design decisions, not just the finished product.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
In L&D, your budget authority, headcount, and reporting line define your real influence. Before accepting an offer, clarify whether you'll own vendor relationships, the LMS, and program budgets, since those details shape your day-to-day leverage significantly.
Learning And Development Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most learning and development managers?
The companies hiring the most learning and development managers right now include Amazon, Aspen Dental, and Intuit, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Healthcare systems, large financial institutions, and enterprise technology companies consistently post the highest volume of L&D manager roles.
How many learning and development manager jobs are remote?
About 61% of learning and development manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, making it one of the more flexible HR disciplines for remote work. Roles focused on e-learning design, LMS administration, and virtual facilitation tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions that require in-person facilitation or new hire onboarding are more likely to be on-site.
How do you become a learning and development manager?
Most learning and development managers start in an instructional designer, training coordinator, or HR generalist role before moving into management. Building hands-on experience with needs assessments, curriculum design, and LMS platforms is essential. Earning a credential such as the ATD CPTD strengthens your candidacy, and volunteering to lead cross-functional training projects helps you demonstrate management readiness before you hold the title.
Can you get hired as a learning and development manager without direct management experience?
You can move into a learning and development manager role without previous direct reports if you've led projects, managed vendors, or coordinated a learning program end to end. Employers at smaller companies or those building an L&D function for the first time often prioritize deep instructional design or facilitation expertise over prior people management. Framing project leadership and cross-functional coordination as evidence of managerial capability strengthens your application significantly.
What does the learning and development manager interview process look like?
Most learning and development manager interviews involve an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on past program outcomes, and a panel interview with HR and business stakeholders. Many employers add a practical component, such as a curriculum design case study, a sample facilitation, or a presentation of a previous program you built. Final rounds typically include a conversation with a senior HR leader or the CHRO.
Where can I find and apply to learning and development manager jobs?
You can find and apply to learning and development manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and location preferences, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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