VP Strategic Talent Leader

When you join Renaissance®, you join a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology! Renaissance’s solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. Our fiercely passionate employees and educational partners have helped drive phenomenal student growth, with Renaissance solutions being used in over one-third of US schools and in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Every day, we are connected to our mission by exemplifying our values: trust each other, win together, strive for the best, own our actions, and grow and evolve.

As a VP, Strategic Talent Leader aligned with the GTM (Go-To-Market) function at Renaissance Learning, you will architect and execute an AI-enabled talent strategy that drives business performance and organizational capability, working in conjunction with the Centers of Excellence (CoEs), HR Business Partners (HRBPs)/People Partners (PRMs), and People Operations teams to deliver strategic workforce solutions. This role leverages advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, and predictive modeling to ensure Renaissance Learning's GTM organization possesses the leadership bench strength, critical capabilities, and agile workforce needed to achieve ambitious growth objectives in the education technology sector.   

• Proactively build relationships and credibility with business leaders to provide thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategies and execution.  
• Understand the business strategy and identify opportunities to increase alignment with the strategy by helping business leaders recognize, prioritize and build organizational capabilities, behaviors, structures and processes.  
• Identify and review key business performance targets and their related talent implications with business leaders.  
• Lead the talent management and development plans for GTM teams with a focus on enhancing the quality of leaders and managers, building skills and capabilities of the workforce, and ensuring succession bench strength.  
• Serve as an AI transformation consultant guiding leaders on the people-side of AI driven change.  
• Diagnose gaps between current and desired organization performance and deploy actions to resolve gaps, including organization redesign, process change, coaching and training, working in conjunction with the COE and People Operations.  
• Analyze workforce trends to model and forecast future labor requirements to support senior leaders in workforce planning and succession management.   
• Work in conjunction with the L&D COE to create development programs for high-potential leaders. (VP+) Assist business unit leaders to create development programs for high-potential employees.  
• Identify and drive the sharing of best practices across functions to facilitate continuous improvement.  
• Collaborate between the business leaders, People operations and COEs to ensure HR products and delivery are aligned with business strategies and goals. 
• Align performance management and reward strategies to reinforce the GTM culture.  
• Coach senior leaders to improve leadership abilities, relationships among teams/individuals and interpersonal communications, as well as deliver effective performance feedback.

• Progressive HR experience with demonstrated leadership in strategic talent management, workforce planning, and HR strategy  
• Proven expertise operating within an integrated CoE, HRBP, and Service Delivery structure  
• Advanced proficiency in people analytics, AI/ML applications in HR, and data-driven decision-making  
• Strong business acumen with track record of linking talent strategies to measurable business outcomes and revenue impact  
• Deep expertise in workforce planning, executive succession, leadership development, and performance management  
• Experience with AI-powered HR technologies including talent intelligence platforms, people analytics tools, and HR automation  
• Executive presence with ability to influence and partner with C-suite and VP+ leaders  

• Experience in private equity-backed mid-size organization navigating transformation  
• Background in education technology, SaaS, or subscription-based business models  
• Advanced degree in HR, Organizational Development, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business, Data Science, or related field  
• Expertise in skills-based workforce strategies, internal talent marketplaces, and skills frameworks and digital tools  

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