Senior Director, Global Talent

The Senior Director, Global Talent will serve as a strategic leader and business partner focused on building and executing a global talent strategy. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who drives team development and performance,  leadership development and is broadly responsible for connecting talent management and learning solutions for the enterprise. The Senior Director, Global Talent develops and enhances metrics in order to understand the impact of talent initiatives and drives continuous improvement. The successful candidate for this role will have a customer-centric mindset, apply data driven methodologies and leverage innovation and best practices to help build and scale a high performing team and talent strategy that enables business success.

What You'll Do

• Architect a global talent strategy that leverages workforce intelligence and integrates into the business cycle   
• Drive strategy and execution of designing and developing high performing teams on a global scale
• Build on our performance management philosophy with a focus on team performance 
• Partner with senior executives to own, role model, and champion all talent initiatives 
• Connect talent management and talent development initiatives for a seamless end to end approach and user experience
• Oversee the transformation and execution of talent management programs and practices, including goal setting, performance reviews, succession planning, promotion process, and mentoring for all employee segments
• Launch a transparent career growth framework and approach that builds employees’ confidence in developing their careers
• Oversee executive, leadership and professional development priorities for the organization necessary to support achievement of short and long-term business priorities
• Evaluate and make recommendations on training programs in partnership with business unit leaders and work together to develop learning experiences for all functions of the organization
• Assess, report, and deliver critical data/metrics related to talent processes to key leaders and stakeholders across the business that measure performance against our established goals
• Inspire and lead a team of talent management and development professionals

Work Hours: This position will require you to be available during core business hours

What We're Looking For

Basic Qualifications:

• You have a strong track record in rolling out new programs and long-term strategies globally, dealing with a wide range of internal stakeholders and external partners, utilizing a data driven approach
• Highly experienced in complex change management – across multiple employee segments, geographies and business functions
• Strong communication, organizational, problem-solving, and project management skills. Strong attention to detail with a creative approach.
• Willingness to be hands on as part of strategy execution, as needed
• MBA or Graduate degree in Organizational Development, Human Resources or equivalent discipline is preferred
• 15+ years of relevant work experience in talent management, talent development, and learning
• Strong people manager; highly skilled with developing team/direct reports

Preferred Qualifications:

• You’re a collaborator, relationship-builder and influencer of change
• You operate with a customer-centric mindset – capable of balancing competing demands and priorities
• Excellent executive presence and communication skills (verbal and written)
• High degree of motivation and learning agility; ability to creatively multitask while managing deadlines and perform under pressure
• Past experience in building talent management and talent development programs to scale for organizations similar in size and structure

Work Location(s) & Travel Requirements

Preferred locations for this position are:

• San Francisco, CA
• Denver, CO
• New York, NY

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. 

Fastly currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home. 

This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is $194,040.00 to $285,350.00. 

Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.

This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs.

Benefits

We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with Fastly. Curious about our offerings? 

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), an open vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees. We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. For 2023, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.