Senior Performance Management & Succession Planning Manager

<h3><strong>About us</strong></h3> <p>At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.</p><p><strong>About us </strong></p> <p>At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through the power of learning. We’re a leading global learning company and one of the world’s largest education platforms, with more than 69 million learners. Our goal is to provide flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals. </p> <p>Talented people are everywhere, and the right opportunity can be hard to come by. That’s why we’re focused on revolutionizing learning, using our skills and expertise to help others develop theirs and reach their full potential. Individually, we bring our unique perspective to reimagine the way we share knowledge. Together, we can transform lives by making learning more accessible for our learners, our instructors, and businesses around the world.</p> <p><strong>Hybrid work</strong></p> <p>Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. </p> <p>This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub. </p> <p>Learn more about us on our<a href="https://about.udemy.com/company/"> company page</a>.</p> <p><strong>About you </strong></p> <p> </p> <p>You are a specialist in the design and delivery of talent planning and performance management systems. You can shift between presenting to senior executives and garnering their input to driving work through a matrixed team seamlessly. You love taking an early prototype and growing it into a world class talent process utilizing design thinking methods and cross-functional input/collaboration. You are known for your knowledge of performance management, succession and workforce planning approaches. </p> <p><strong>About this role:</strong></p> <ul> <li>You will operate as an individual contributor, drawing on skills from across the people team as needed (project-based teaming)</li> <li>You will be working closely with the people partner team in understanding the business needs and maturity and partner with the, learning team to design well informed solutions. </li> <li>You will design and develop talent planning and performance product and deliver them through a team of learning and people partners</li> <li>Reporting to the VP, of Global People Partners and BEDI, you will work together to design the strategy and implementation plan for Talent Planning and Performance Management programs. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing: </strong></p> <p>Advancing our current approaches to talent planning and performance management. </p> <p><strong>Performance Management:</strong> Lead the development and execution of our performance management and calibration cycle, ensuring alignment and integration with the goal and compensation cycles. Utilize data and analytics to assess cycle performance and efficacy as well as leverage data as an input to the talent planning process. </p> <ul> <li>Develop and implement a comprehensive performance management framework that fosters a culture of continuous feedback, employee engagement, listening to drive impact and accountability.</li> <li>Drive the annual performance review process, ensuring alignment with company goals.</li> <li>Implement modern tools and methodologies to improve real-time performance feedback and engagement.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Talent &amp; Succession Planning:</strong> Lead the development and execution of our talent and succession planning strategy. Partner with senior leadership to understand current leadership pipelines and identify and communicate gaps. Establish a metrics and reporting system to track the efficacy of interventions. </p> <ul> <li>Collaboration &amp; Influence: Work with a variety of stakeholders across the people team, senior leadership and executive staff to gather input and create buy-in for talent planning and performance efforts. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Data &amp; Analytics:</strong> Design measurement strategies, collect data and use data analysis approaches to inform process enhancements and/or drive strategic talent decisions. </p> <p><strong>About your skills:</strong></p> <p>Product/Solution design: You have strong product design skills and can move from concept to prototype easily. You are excellent at coming up with new ideas and sharing them with your team in a sketched out or ‘initial draft’ form - you aren’t afraid of taking early risks with a ‘back of a napkin’ design. </p> <ul> <li>Performance and skill measurement: