Director, Learning and Development

This role is a remote role with regular travel to our Gaithersburg, MD, and New York City office.

GeneDx is a patient-centric health information company that delivers personalized and actionable health insights that inform diagnosis, guide treatment and improve drug discovery. The company is transforming healthcare through its industry-leading exome and genome testing and interpretation, fueled by one of the world’s largest, rare disease data sets.  GeneDx is uniquely positioned to accelerate the use of genomic and large-scale clinical information to enable precision medicine as the standard of care. 

The People Team at GeneDx works to enable all team member to achieve our goals as a company in a way that is consistent with our values. The Director, People Learning & Engagement at GeneDx focuses on creating learning and engagement opportunities for our team members to be their best selves, leaders, and team contributors. The better we work together; the greater impact on patient care.

In this role, you will lead the execution of our roadmap to provide customized learning and development opportunities that bring immersive experiences to life and that support:

• New Hire Onboarding
• Cultural & Mission Connection
• Inclusion & Belonging
• Employee Resource Groups
• Leadership Development
• Team Member Development: Planning & Prioritization, Effective Communication, etc.
• Talent and Succession Planning
• UpNext and Executive Team Meetings & Offsites

What You’ll Achieve

Strategy

• Drive the strategy and roadmap to connect learning and development with business priorities across key audiences - leaders and team members.
• Provide expertise on best approaches and modes of learning ranging from self-service to off-the-shelf to customized options.
• Identify pragmatic recommendations that align with GeneDx’s culture, and business rhythms, and ensure sequencing and pacing are optimized.

Program Management and Operations

• Drive L&D programs end to end including:
• Analyzing learning needs, objectives, and expected outcomes of learning programs.
• Planning, project management, and execution of projects on time and within scope for cross-functional stakeholders
• Collaborate across the People Team to create seamless end-to-end learning experiences for cohesion with People strategy and team member experience, etc.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• 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.

Execution & Facilitation

• Facilitate virtual, blended, and live learning experiences

About You

• 6-8 years of direct experience building scalable learning & development in a high-growth company from start-up to scale-up phase.
• Expertise building programs focused on team member engagement, leadership development and scaling programs.
• Self-starter and leader comfortable with content creation and operational process building across the L&D domain.
• Biased towards action and getting things done and prioritize progress over perfection: solving problems for our existing reality vs optimizing for the ideal
• Organized, end-to-end process-oriented, and efficient while being adaptable to changing priorities and comfortable wearing multiple hats.
• Deep expertise in learning & development space including familiarity with progressive thought leadership and methodology and the ability to provide strategic and proactive guidance that helps Asana succeed.
• Experience consulting with business leaders and stakeholders, with a proven record of establishing relationships and the experience being a strategic partner.

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