Global Head of Talent

The Global Head of Talent Management is a critical enterprise leadership role responsible for owning, designing and running Carlyle’s end-to-end talent and leadership development ecosystem, as well as governing the firm’s broader global talent architecture. This role shapes how the organization assesses, develops, promotes, and retains talent, ensuring that talent decisions are rigorous, meritocratic, and aligned with the firm’s long-term strategy.

Partnering closely with the Chief People Officer, leadership, and the HR Business Partner team, the Global Head of Talent Management fully owns all enterprise development programming across the firm, from early-career through senior leadership, including leadership frameworks, level-based programs, executive development, 360 Feedback and coaching. In parallel, the role owns the design and governance of core talent frameworks and methodologies – including talent assessment, calibration, succession planning, promotion readiness, and career architecture- while enabling effective execution by the business and HR partners.

The role plays a central advisory function to senior leaders and serves as a key architect of leadership capability, organizational effectiveness, and a firmwide development culture.

The Global Head of Talent Management also leads the evolution of Carlyle’s Cultural Values, ensuring leadership expectations are clearly defined, embedded across all talent processes, and reinforced primarily through enterprise development programming, feedback, and succession. In partnership with the Head of HR Business Partnership and Chief People Officer, the role is responsible for developing succession plans for the Executive Suite and presenting insights and recommendations to the CEO and Board of Directors.

As the firm modernizes its HR infrastructure, including the migration to Workday, the Global Head of Talent Management drives the parallel modernization of all talent processes – ensuring systems, tools, and methodologies are aligned with best practices and enable high-quality, data-driven decisions. A strong emphasis on analytics and AI underpins this work, with AI embedded across talent processes to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and elevate decision quality.

This role requires a leader with strong enterprise judgment, executive presence, and the ability to balance strategic design with disciplined governance and change leadership. The Global Head of Talent Management plays a pivotal role in shaping the firm’s leadership pipeline, strengthening its performance culture, and ensuring the organization is equipped to succeed in a complex, global environment.

This role is open to candidates in Washington, DC or New York, NY.

• Partner closely with the Chief People Officer and Head of HR Business Partnership to define, execute, and continuously evolve the firm’s global talent strategy, aligned with business priorities, financial discipline, and long-term growth objectives.
• Serve as a senior advisor to leadership, HR Business Partners, and governance forums on talent strategy, organizational capability, leadership risk, and succession.
• Establish and steward enterprise-wide talent standards, frameworks, and methodologies that promote rigor, fairness, consistency, and transparency across regions and businesses.
• Leverage data, analytics, and AI responsibly to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and elevate the quality of enterprise talent decisions.

• Own and continuously evolve the Carlyle Career Framework, which defines role expectations, progression standards, and evaluation criteria and underpins all talent assessment, calibration, succession planning, promotion readiness, and career mobility decisions.
• Own the firm’s integrated talent assessment, calibration, and succession planning frameworks, ensuring they are scalable, data-driven, and aligned with the firm’s meritocratic principles.
• Define assessment methodologies, tools, and criteria used to evaluate performance, potential, readiness, and risk across roles and levels, embedding AI-enabled insights and…