Director, Organizational Development and Learning Technology

Easterseals Southern California transforms lives every day. For over a century, Easterseals has championed inclusion and independence—delivering essential services like early childhood programs, autism services, employment and independent living support to more than 29,000 people each year. Through advocacy and education, we break barriers and create opportunities for the one-in-four Americans with disabilities. 

Easterseals California is seeking a Director, Organizational Development & Learning Technology to help shape how our organization grows, develops, and empowers its people. In this high-impact role, you will lead enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness, workforce capability, and learning technology strategy—partnering with senior leaders to drive meaningful change and enhance the associate experience.
You will collaborate across People Services, Information Technology, and operational leadership to design data-informed programs, optimize learning platforms, strengthen workforce readiness, and equip managers and associates for success. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic, people-centered OD and learning technology leader who is passionate about building scalable solutions that advance Easterseals California’s mission and impact.

Hiring Range: $130k - 155k

OVERVIEW OF POSITION:

The Director, Organizational Development & Learning Technology is responsible for leading enterprise organizational effectiveness, workforce capability initiatives, and learning technology strategy. This role partners with senior leaders to identify organizational needs, improve team and leadership effectiveness, support organizational change and transformation efforts, and optimize talent-related systems and processes that enable business performance. The Director oversees learning technology platforms, organizational development programs, workforce analytics, and change adoption strategies to improve organizational capability, scalability, and associate experience.

Working collaboratively across People Services, Information Technology, and operational leadership, this position develops data-informed solutions that strengthen organizational effectiveness, increase workforce readiness, support manager and associate success, and advance enterprise priorities. In all responsibilities, the position demonstrates a strong commitment to ESSC's mission and values by supporting a high-quality, person-centered service environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develops and executes a comprehensive digital enablement strategy aligned with business goals, including learning technology, digital tools, and user experience enhancements.
• In partnership with senior leaders, provides strategic leadership for organizational development, organizational effectiveness, performance enablement, and learning technology initiatives by identifying workforce capability needs, advising leaders on organizational effectiveness opportunities, and implementing scalable solutions that support organizational performance and growth.
• Leads the learning technology ecosystem, including LMS, LXP, Workday Learning, and AI-driven solutions, and ensure integration with enterprise platforms.
• Provides strategic oversight of learning technology platforms, including LMS, LXP, Workday Learning, and emerging digital learning solutions, to improve adoption, scalability, reporting, and user experience.
• Partners with enterprise change management, MarCom, IT, People Services, and other stakeholders to conduct change impact analyses, stakeholder assessments, readiness assessments, communication, training, and reinforcement plans to sustain adoption.
• Uses workforce, learning, and organizational effectiveness data to identify trends, evaluate the impact of programs and technology adoption, and provide insights that guide organizational development decisions.
• Serves as a strategic advisor to leaders on organizational effectiveness, change management, workforce capability, and team effectiveness initiatives.
• Leads, coaches, and develops a high-performing team while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Collaborates with HR Directors, HR Business Partners, and senior service line leaders to assess current-state structures and recommend optimal future-state structures, including spans and layers, team configurations, role clarity, and restructuring opportunities.
• Facilitates strategic planning, scenario planning, future-state modeling, and design workshops with leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Develops and implements strategies for organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, and headcount planning, leveraging associate feedback data to inform strategy, interventions, das