Learning & Development Lead

TAIT partners with artists, brands, IP holders and place makers to bring culture-defining, never-before-seen experiences to life. With a legacy of innovation spanning over 45 years, TAIT has grown from pioneering in rock ‘n’ roll concert staging to setting the global standard for extraordinary live events and experiences through cutting-edge technology, precision engineering, and creative design. TAIT’s 20 global offices have developed iconic productions and experiences in over 30 countries, all seven continents, and even outer space for renowned performers, theme parks, exhibits, and venues across the globe, including partnerships with Taylor Swift, Cirque Du Soleil, Royal Opera House, Nike, NASA, Bloomberg, Google, Beyoncé, and The Olympics

The Learning & Development Lead partners with business leaders and stakeholders to identify capability and performance needs and develop learning strategies that build employee skill & capability and support business outcomes. The L&D Lead serves as a learning and performance consultant for assigned functions and leads learning initiatives from needs analysis and solution strategy through implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.

• Partner with business leaders, People Business Partners, and other stakeholders to understand business priorities, performance challenges, and current and future capability needs.
• Conduct needs and performance analyses to identify capability gaps, determine root causes, and clarify desired performance outcomes.
• Determine when learning is an appropriate intervention and identify opportunities where non-learning solutions may better address performance needs.
• Serve as a trusted learning and performance consultant to assigned functions, providing recommendations and guidance based on business needs, learner needs, and L&D best practices.
• Proactively identify emerging capability needs and opportunities to support business performance through employee development.
• Translate identified performance and capability needs into learning strategies and solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Define target audiences, desired behaviors, learning objectives, application expectations, and measures of success for learning initiatives.
• Determine appropriate learning approaches and modalities based on the performance need, learner population, business environment, available resources, and desired outcomes.
• Recommend appropriate build, buy, or partner approaches and evaluate internal and external learning solutions when applicable.
• Partner with Learning Experience Design, Learning Operations, subject matter experts, facilitators, and external partners to translate learning strategies into effective learning experiences.
• Ensure learning solutions support practical application and transfer of learning to the workplace.

• Lead assigned learning initiatives from discovery and needs analysis through solution development, implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Establish program scope, objectives, success measures, project plans, milestones, stakeholder responsibilities, and implementation requirements.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams, including Learning & Development team members, subject matter experts, business stakeholders, facilitators, and external partners.
• Manage multiple learning initiatives simultaneously, proactively identifying and addressing risks, dependencies, resource needs, and barriers to successful implementation.
• Maintain stakeholder alignment throughout the lifecycle of learning initiatives and communicate progress, decisions, risks, and outcomes to appropriate audiences.
• Ensure learning initiatives are…