Director, Learning & Development

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 270 million B2B contacts, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. Apollo.io is growing rapidly, with 900% revenue growth since 2021, and is looking for world-class talent to keep building with us.

Apollo is looking for a hands-on L&D Director with deep expertise in designing and executing end-to-end scalable programs for the development of managers and employees at all levels.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, your responsibilities will include strategic planning and tactical execution; analyzing organizational needs, creating alignment with business strategy, day-to-day operations, budget and vendor management, and stakeholder management. You'll partner closely with our Executive Leadership team to develop and drive strategies to enhance the skills and knowledge of our employees globally. If you are passionate about shaping the way a fast-growing company supports employee's growth and careers, keep reading!

The People Team at Apollo works to enable our employees and managers to achieve our mission-critical goals while aligning all our work with our company values. Our goal is to build a high-performance and highly engaged team and ensure that all employees are thriving and maximizing their impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive the strategy and roadmap to connect learning and development with business priorities across leaders and employees.
• Provide expertise on best approaches and modes of learning ranging from self-service to off-the-shelf to customized options (including building programs within our company LMS).
• Collaborate across the People Team to create seamless end-to-end learning experiences for cohesion with HRBPs inputs, Employee Relations and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including the CEO.
• Identify, select, onboard, and manage vendor partners to execute on learning priorities.
• Identify a roadmap of systems/tools needed to support L&D efforts for today and the future.
• Establish and measure L&D program effectiveness based on impact, knowledge and behavior change.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of programs, making improvements along the way.
• Stay close to industry trends and best practices in L&D.

About You:

• 6-8+ years of hands-on experience building scalable learning & development in a high-growth company.
• Expertise building programs focused on manager, leadership development and scaling programs.
• Experience working on L&D for R&D teams is preferred but not required.
• Fluent in data extraction, analysis and storytelling, with experience in demonstrating ROI on L&D programs
• Strong understanding of adult learning principles and design techniques
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating at all levels of an organization globally.
• Experience consulting with business leaders and stakeholders, with a proven track record of establishing relationships and being seen as a strategic partner

What You'll Love About Apollo

Besides the great compensation package and culture that thrives in openness and excellence, we invest tremendous effort into developing our remote employees' careers. The team embraces that we have a sole purpose: to help customers maximize their full revenue potential on the Apollo platform. This mindset opens us up to a lot of creative approaches to making customers successful at scale. You'll be a significant part of a lean, remote team, empowered to really own your role as a proactive educator. We're very collaborative at Apollo, so you'll be able to lean on your teammates, even in adjacent departments, to help you achieve lofty goals. You'll be supported and encouraged to experiment and take educated risks that lead to big wins. And, you'll have a whole team remotely by your side to help you do it!