Director, Head of Learning & Development

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

Program Design & Delivery

• Conduct needs analysis and lead the design & delivery of development initiatives that align to business needs.

• Craft learning strategies into well-executed, high-impact development experiences across audiences, levels, and geographies, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy.

• Facilitate live, virtual, hybrid, and cohort-based learning experiences with confidence & credibility.

• Work with HR business partners, business leaders, and subject matter experts to identify learning needs, gather feedback, and continuously improve program relevance and impact.

• Manage program calendars, participant communications, facilitator preparation, materials, logistics, and follow-up actions.

• Track participation, feedback, learning outcomes, and program effectiveness; use insights to improve impact over time.

• Support vendor coordination and external facilitator management where third-party learning partners are used.

Program Management

• Serve as a trusted partner to HR and business stakeholders, ensuring development programs are delivered with strong planning, communication, and execution discipline.

• Build strong relationships with leaders and participants to ensure relevancy and alignment with business strategy.

• Maintain clear project plans, milestones, dashboards, and status updates for learning and leadership initiatives.

• Identify operational risks and proactively resolve issues related to scheduling, capacity, content, facilitation, vendor support, or participant engagement.

• Bring a continuous improvement mindset, incorporating participant feedback, stakeholder input, and data.

Analyst & Associate Training Program

• Establish the Analyst & Associate Training Program and governance model. Identify key external partners, develop the curriculum, and own the day-to-day management and execution.

• Partner with firm leadership and external partners to develop content that builds business acumen, client orientation, collaboration, and an ownership mindset for Corient’s early career talent.

• Coordinate senior leader involvement, line managers, and mentors to ensure the program has strong visibility and enterprise support.

• Manage participant experience, program logistics and communications.

• Measure program outcomes, including participant, manager and business leader feedback.

Key Competencies

• Exceptional facilitation and presentation skills across in-person, virtual, and hybrid settings.

• Strong learning design capability, including the ability to translate leadership concepts into practical, engaging learning experiences.

• Excellent program and project management discipline, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, stakeholders, and deliverables.

• Commercial acumen and the ability to connect learning programs to business priorities, client impact, and leadership effectiveness.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to build trust and influence without authority.

• High emotional intelligence, executive presence, and credibility with senior leaders.

• Data-driven mindset with the ability to measure program effectiveness and use insights to improve outcomes.

• Digital fluency and comfort using learning platforms, collaboration tools, and emerging learning technologies.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail.

Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in learning and development, leadership development, talent management, organizational development, or a related field.

• Demonstrated experience facilitating leadership, professional development, or capability-building programs for professional audiences.

• Experience managing high-potential, early career, and/or leadership development programs is strongly preferred.

• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder programs from planning through execution and measurement.

• Experience working in a high-growth, matrixed, partnership-oriented, professional services, financial services, consulting, or wealth management environment is a plus.

• Strong understanding of adult learning principles, leadership development practices, talent assessment, and program evaluation.

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or relevant certifications in learning, coaching, leadership development, organizational psychology, or talent management preferred.

Successful candidates will be a:

• Strategic Doer: Combines strategic thinking with a practical, roll-up-your-sleeves orientation and strong execution discipline.

• Credible Facilitator: Brings confidence, clarity, and presence in front of senior leaders, early career talent, emerging leaders, and cross-functional audiences.

• Relationship Builder: Builds trust quickly and works effectively across HR, business leadership, external partners, and program participants.

• Results Driven: Operates with urgency, accountability, and a commitment to measurable outcomes.

• Highly Organized: Brings structure, rigor, and attention to detail to complex programs and stakeholder environments.

• Curious and Adaptive: Continuously improves content, delivery, and learner experience based on feedback, data, and changing business needs.

• Culture Carrier: Models Corient’s client-first, team-first, ownership-oriented culture and reinforces those behaviors through every program experience

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Pay Information

This position is exempt and is paid according to the laws of the State of New York. The pay range for this position is $200,000 to $220,000 USD per year. We are required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. It is not typical for an individual to be offered a salary at or near the top of the range for a position. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
• This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect from Us

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching 
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability  
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave 
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA 
• Commuter & Transit FSA 
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot 
• Training Reimbursement  
• Paid Professional Designations  
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is the world’s largest multi-family office and non-bank wealth manager focused on serving ultra-high- and high-net-worth clients. As the industry’s only global professional services partnership, we combine the personal service and objectivity of a boutique with the scale and resources of a global institution. Our partnership model fosters collaboration over competition, bringing together the collective expertise of Corient to each relationship to deliver a transparent, client-first experience. As a fully integrated global firm, we deliver comprehensive solutions across investment management, wealth strategy and family office services to help clients simplify their lives, manage their wealth and establish lasting legacies.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Corient refers to the separate but affiliated entities under common control of Corient Holdings Inc. Client assets include all assets of Corient Holdings Inc., including majority- and minority-owned businesses.