Talent Development Director
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Design and lead the firm's talent development strategy to enhance leadership capability, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness. Provide strategic oversight of talent acquisition and create a seamless transition from recruitment to professional development.
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We are one of the largest regional accounting firms headquartered in Orange County, California. We’re accountants providing solid guidance, support & solutions to businesses, governments, and non-profits. Our outstanding employees are crucial to our unique, diverse culture and talent development, as well as our ability to attract clients successfully. At LSL, you will discover an atmosphere that motivates and encourages you to succeed personally and professionally.
Talent Development Director
SUMMARY:
The Talent Development Director is responsible for designing and leading the firm's talent development strategy to support long-term growth, leadership capability, employee engagement, retention, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness. This role will build and scale the firm's learning and development function while providing strategic oversight of talent acquisition. This role will also collaborate closely with the Chief People Leader on other People Operations matters as needed. Approximately 80-85% of the role's responsibilities will focus on talent and leadership development, with the remaining 15-20% dedicated to talent acquisition leadership and integration.
The Talent Development Director will ensure a seamless connection between attracting talent, onboarding new hires, developing employees, and preparing future leaders
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and implement a firm-wide talent development strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Create scalable professional development, leadership, mentoring, and career pathing programs.
- Establish a long-term, competency-based leadership development roadmap for emerging leaders, managers, senior managers, and directors.
- Utilize employee feedback, engagement data, and other metrics to help sustain, enhance, or even evolve culture.
- Collaborate with firm leadership to identify future talent needs and organizational capability gaps.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, feedback, accountability, and professional growth.
- Guide and support succession planning efforts across key leadership roles.
- Oversee learning technologies, development resources, and training effectiveness.
- Partner with firm leaders to improve employee performance, professional growth, and career progression.
- Evaluate and implement learning technologies and platforms to ensure alignment to future resource needs.
- Collaborate with IT and operational leaders to maintain and evolve knowledge-sharing platforms.
- Coordinate internal and external training resources, vendors, and learning partners.
- Provide strategic oversight of the talent acquisition function, including processes and outcomes.
- Design a structured onboarding process that creates a seamless handoff from recruitment to development and creates exceptional employee experience.
- Help drive brand consistency between hiring, onboarding, and development of talent.
- Other duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides functional oversight into the Talent Acquisition function and may supervise future Talent Development resources.
- Opportunity to manage, mentor, and coach other consultants, and perform quality control reviews of staff work before delivery to client.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree, required. Concentration in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field, preferred.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in talent development, leadership development, organizational development, talent management, or related areas, required.
- Professional services experience, required; public accounting experience, preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams, required.
- Excellent knowledge of and proficiency using learning management and employee engagement platforms, required.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Strong understanding of the connection between talent acquisition, onboarding, employee development, and retention.
- Exceptional communication, coaching, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to align talent development strategies with business goals.
- Proven success guiding and supporting senior leadership in the delivery of talent development initiatives.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately.
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Understands the vision of LSL.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- A critical and analytical approach to problem solving.
- Attention to detail, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, manage multiple priorities, and perform job responsibilities in a demanding environment accurately and with minimal supervision.
- Prioritization of multiple interdependent projects while monitoring and communicating progress.
- Strong work ethic with meticulous accuracy and a quest for quality.
- Professional behavior and appearance
At LSL CPAs, we offer competitive compensation and benefits package along with a supportive team-focused environment. Our remote work environment allows you the freedom to manage your personal commitments while staying dedicated to serving our clients.
Work Authorization:
Must be authorized to work in the United States permanently without the requirement of sponsorship at any point in the future.
Salary Range: $140,000 – $170,000
Please note that quoted salary ranges are not guarantees of what final salary offers may be. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and geographic location. Base pay is only one part of the Total Rewards that LSL, LLP provides to compensate and recognize our professionals for their work. All exempt positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and all employees who are regularly scheduled to work 30 hours or more per week are offered a comprehensive benefits package.
Work Environment
Typical indoor office environment
Typical indoor office environment
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people within this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this job.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people within this classification. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this job.
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