Senior Director, Frontline Experience Training

Description

This role builds frontline capability by ensuring employees have the skills, knowledge, and confidence required to deliver consistent, high-quality member experiences across service channels. The position leads the strategy and execution of experience training, quality, knowledge, and career development programs that improve employee effectiveness, accelerate proficiency, and strengthen member trust. Working cross-functionally with Operations, Readiness, Knowledge Management, Workforce Management, and Experience leaders, the role aligns learning and performance initiatives to organizational priorities and evolving business needs. Through leadership of training functions and capability-building programs, this role drives service excellence, workforce readiness, and long-term organizational performance.

Here's what you can expect from the job and what you need to be successful:

What You'll Do :

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Lead the strategy and execution of frontline capability development programs that build technical expertise, consultative service skills, emotional intelligence, and long-term career growth across service channels.
• Develop and continuously evolve the enterprise experience training strategy, ensuring learning programs align with organizational priorities, member expectations, and service excellence standards.
• Oversee the design, delivery, and effectiveness of sales, service, and advisory learning programs that improve employee capability, confidence, proficiency, and member outcomes.
• Establish and maintain quality frameworks that reinforce service standards, regulatory compliance, empathy, accuracy, and proactive problem solving across frontline interactions.
• Partner with Operations, Member Experience, Product, Compliance, Workforce Management, and other enterprise leaders to align learning and capability-building efforts with business objectives and evolving organizational needs.
• Drive integration across Experience Training, Readiness, Quality, and Knowledge Management functions to create a seamless and scalable frontline enablement ecosystem.
• Leverage insights from quality evaluations, member feedback, operational performance data, and workforce measures to identify capability gaps and inform learning and performance improvement strategies.
• Ensure frontline employees have timely access to accurate, relevant, and actionable knowledge resources that support effective service delivery and decision-making.
• Establish performance measures, reporting frameworks, and effectiveness assessments that evaluate learning outcomes, knowledge adoption, service consistency, and organizational readiness.
• Lead, develop, and inspire leaders and teams responsible for training, quality, and knowledge management, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Translate strategic priorities into capability-building initiatives that strengthen workforce readiness, accelerate proficiency, and improve long-term service performance.
• Embed regulatory, risk, and control requirements into frontline capability programs to support compliance, resilience, and sustainable organizational growth.

Typical Scope:

• Drives execution of functional strategies and ensures alignment with broader business goals.Overseesoperational performance, resource allocation, and process optimization. Supports strategic planning and contributes to the development of policies, budgets, and infrastructure that enable long-term success.Makesdecisions with significant organizational impact, often involving complex, cross-functional considerations.Works closely with executive leadership and influences decisions on matters of strategic importance.

• Overseesa business function at the local or regional level, with broad accountability for operational and strategic outcomes. Responsible for executing strategy and directing operations across multiple teams. Possesses deepexpertisein their functional area and a strong understanding of organizational dynamics. May contribute to strategy development and long-term planning for their function.

• Manages through multiple layers of leadership, typically overseeing Directors and Senior Managers. Sets direction for talent development, succession planning, and organizational culture within their function.Buildsstrong leadership capability across teams and fosters collaboration and accountability.

• 4 - 7 Directors, Senior Managers, Managers, AssistantManagersand/or Principal Professionals and below reporting to them.

Essential Skills:

Education & Experience:

* Required education: Bachelor's degree or 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree, advanced

degree is preferred.

* Required experience: 7 years of relevant experience, including 6 years as a people leader.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Organizational Development, Learning & Development, Education, Human Resources, or a related field required; Master's degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in learning and development, training, organizational effectiveness, customer experience, or related disciplines, including significant leadership experience managing leaders and multi-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute enterprise capability-building strategies that improve service culture, employee effectiveness, workforce readiness, and business performance.
• Deep expertise in adult learning principles, instructional design, onboarding programs, capability frameworks, and multi-modal learning delivery methods, including instructor-led, digital, virtual, and blended learning environments.
• Proven experience leading training, quality assurance, knowledge management, readiness, or frontline enablement functions that deliver measurable improvements in employee performance, member experience, service quality, and operational outcomes.
• Demonstrated success building and sustaining service cultures that emphasize empathy, consultative interactions, relationship development, and exceptional member experiences.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to align learning and capability strategies to organizational priorities, service delivery objectives, risk requirements, and performance outcomes.
• Experience leading large-scale change, transformation, and workforce readiness initiatives involving operational, technology, process, or cultural change.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, with experience using performance measures, quality insights, employee feedback, and business outcomes to evaluate effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment across Operations, Product, Workforce Management, Member Experience, Quality, Compliance, and other enterprise functions.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance expectations, and risk considerations within financial services or other regulated industries.
• Change Management, Talent Development, Learning, Knowledge Management, or Organizational Development certifications (e.g., Prosci, CPTD, KCS, Six Sigma, or similar) preferred.

Location:

Chelmsford/Marlboro, MA or Hillsboro, OR

Target Compensation:

$164,000 - $197,000

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm