Director, Learning & Development

Role: Director, Learning & Development
Location: Remote - USA

Position Summary

As Director, Learning & Development you will shape and lead our Leadership Development strategy. You'll ensure our leaders-today and tomorrow-possess the critical skills for success. This is an exciting time: leveraging current momentum and new technologies, we aim to deliver development programs that are genuinely transformational.

What You'll Do

You will be accountable for:

• Strategic Leadership Development: Define, evolve, and execute the leadership development strategy aligned with business goals. Assess emerging trends, adult learning theories, and frameworks to inform the strategy.
• Program Design & Evaluation: Oversee design, implementation, and measurement of large-scale leadership development programs. Ensure robust evaluation of approaches, learning outcomes, and business impact.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted partner to senior executives. Build relationships, understand leadership needs at multiple levels, and ensure feedback is embedded in program design.
• Learning Delivery & Content Oversight: Oversee both digital and physical learning materials. Ensure content quality, brand alignment, scalability, and appropriate delivery formats.
• Project & Portfolio Management: Manage multiple workstreams; define timelines, resources, budgets. Monitor status, address roadblocks, and keep senior leadership informed.
• Team Development: Lead, mentor, develop high-performing teams. Foster capabilities in content creation, instructional design, and delivery.
• Talent & Succession Planning: Diagnose capability gaps among leaders; foster internal talent; establish succession plans. Champion continuous learning.
• Culture & Values Championing: Integrate Walmart values (Integrity, Customer focus, Excellence, etc.) into all leadership development activities. Promote ethical behaviour, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

What You'll Bring (Qualifications & Experience)

Required:

• 10+ years of experience in large-scale leadership development programs.
• Deep understanding of adult learning theory, instructional design, and evaluation frameworks.
• Proven track record engaging with senior stakeholders and influencing at executive levels.
• Strong project management skills managing large, multi stream initiatives concurrently.
• Ability to analyze program data, translate to insights, and drive improvement.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, HR, Education, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred:

• Master's degree in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, or related fields.
• Experience leading cross functional teams.
• Certifications such as PMP, Six Sigma, or equivalents in Learning & Development.
• Experience in digital learning/technology platforms and tools.

Behaviours & Values

You will be expected to:

• Embrace and promote respect for the individual : Build inclusive teams and nurture a culture where everyone feels seen and supported.
• Act with integrity : Uphold ethics and compliance; serve as a role model.
• Put customer/member first : Use data and insights to align learning solutions with customer/member needs.
• Strive for excellence : Be continuously curious, innovative, resilient; raise the bar.

Benefits & Compensation

• Competitive base salary plus performance based bonus.
• Health, vision, dental coverage; retirement benefits including 401(k).
• Paid time off, parental leave, etc.