Senior Director, Talent Acceleration (US) & Global Head of Learning & Development

At SharkNinja, culture is our engine for growth — our True Edge and our competitive advantage. We keep the owner-founder ethos and the fierce, winning spirit that shapes how we build teams, develop talent, and win. This role sits at the centre of that: it turns our culture and our ambitions for our people into learning experiences that change how Sharks lead, manage, and perform. 

This is a dual-mandate role. On one side, you lead Learning & Development globally — accountable for building a high-performing L&D practice across every region. On the other, you lead Talent Acceleration delivery in the US, owning how our practices land day to day for Sharks across the Americas. You will run both in a matrix — building the L&D capability that other regions draw on, while delivering the full tX agenda where you sit. 

The role: 

You are the enterprise owner of Learning & Development at SharkNinja and the leader of Talent Acceleration delivery in the US. You build the L&D practice end to end — multimodal instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology — and you make sure it shows up as real capability for our managers, leaders, and employees, not as a catalogue of programs. 

The US Talent Acceleration team reports directly to you, assigned functionally against the priorities that matter most at any given time. Learning & Development extends into other geographies as needs require — placing people close to the business so design stays global and delivery stays local. You set the practice, build the team, and carry it through to impact. 

What you’ll own:

Global Learning & Development practice 

• Practice and strategy: own the vision, standard, and roadmap for L&D globally — a high-performing practice in multimodal instructional design and development, delivery, measurement, and learning technology, coherent across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
• Design and development: build learning experiences across our priorities — reinforcing our culture, building our managers and leaders, and upskilling our employees — using the full range of modalities (in-person, virtual, digital, social, on-the-job, and AI-enabled).
• Signature programs: own our global onboarding experience that immerses new hires in our culture and accelerates their impact, our manager and leadership capability build, and the culture programs that embed how we work into the organization.
• Learning technology and systems: own the learning technology stack and the systems, platforms, and infrastructure that let learning scale — selecting, integrating, and getting value from the tools that carry the practice.
• Measurement and impact: define how we measure learning — from engagement to capability to business outcome — and use the data to sharpen what we build and retire what does not earn its place.
• AI-native learning: build L&D for an AI-first company — weaving AI into how learning is designed, delivered, and scaled, and into what Sharks are learning, in step with our Jailbreak AI Academy and AI capability work. 

US Talent Acceleration delivery