Director, Talent Management

Summary

Join MongoDB's People Team as the Director, Talent Management and play a critical role in building a scalable organization and integrating the Leadership Commitment framework into our talent ecosystem. You will build a global talent management system that supports organizational scaling and embeds the Leadership Commitment into assessment, development, and future planning, focusing initially on senior leaders. This role involves leading talent management strategy and processes, aligning them with business needs and the Leadership Commitment, consulting with HR Business Partners and senior leaders, and ensuring consistent process application across business units. The position requires extensive experience in global talent management, process design, and strategic problem-solving within high-growth tech environments. Based remotely in the US (EST or CST preferred), this leadership role offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive global experience leading large scale, cross functional talent management and development projects and strategies, ideally as a program manager and a people manager in high growth tech environments
• Partnering on talent management strategies for and with senior leaders
• Process design experience, including right sizing to meet business needs
• Demonstrated ability to drive impact on business objectives
• Ability to build an overarching framework and system as well as individual processes
• Track record of taking a pragmatic approach to solving problems, rather than an academic one
• Experience customizing experiences and content to meet the needs of individual business units
• Strong track record in delivering both strategic and tactical/pragmatic solutions in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Strong consulting skills (e.g., communication, influencing, facilitation and stakeholder management skills)
• Excellence in written communication, and project documentation
• Excellence in communicating and presenting, especially with executive audiences
• Strategic mindset with a willingness to be hands on as required

Responsibilities

• End to end ownership of our global talent management strategy and processes to support the delivery of business outcomes, including organizational and talent planning and reviews, career progression frameworks, talent assessment (potential and 360), succession planning, and managing others to do so as well
• Engage in strong diagnosis of business needs, to better tailor uniform processes that deliver measurable business impact across the company
• Align the talent management function to our Leadership Commitment, leadership development programs, and diversity & inclusion strategy
• Consult with, influence and support our HR Business Partners and Senior Leaders to develop and make informed talent strategies and ensure adoption of our talent processes
• Coordinate and inspect cross-functionally to ensure that our core processes are used consistently across our business units and are also flexible enough to solve for business-specific problems and are able to mature with our business at scale
• Ensure all talent management deliverables have both strong project management (resourcing, dependencies, risk management, timelines, etc) and change management (understanding of business priorities and context, stakeholder alignment and involvement)
• Manage and evolve our talent management technology in partnership with our Tech and HR Operations teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an HR organization or partnering closely with an HR organization for 5+ years
• Experience as an HR Business Partner
• Experience managing a team
• Strategic ownership of talent management technology/systems; familiarity with Success Factors & Qualtrics preferred

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings
• Equity
• Participation in the employee stock purchase program