Associate Director, Talent and Learning Platforms

Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company focused on developing novel targeted therapies to inhibit frontier targets in RAS-addicted cancers.  The company’s R&D pipeline comprises RAS(ON) Inhibitors designed to suppress diverse oncogenic variants of RAS proteins, and RAS Companion Inhibitors for use in combination treatment strategies. As a new member of the Revolution Medicines team, you will join other outstanding Revolutionaries in a tireless commitment to patients with cancers harboring mutations in the RAS signaling pathway.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a strategic and hands-on systems leader to own and expand Workday Learning and Talent Management, as well as oversee, support, and collaborate on integrations and content management with key HR and cross-functional platforms (e.g., LinkedIn Learning, Simpplr, Vault, Greenhouse, and Veeva). The ideal candidate is both strategic and execution-oriented, combining hands-on subject matter expertise and deep configuration and system management knowledge with an ability to consult and build programs that align to business strategy.

A leader in this role will drive platform strategy, configuration, and optimization to enable scalable and personalized employee experiences, blending deep Workday system expertise with a consultative mindset — partnering with HR and business stakeholders to ensure operational excellence, user adoption, and long-term system evolution in alignment with RevMed’s mission and values. This will require thinking big and rolling up sleeves while leveraging in-depth knowledge and demonstrated experience with high growth, fast-paced organizations. The role reports to the Director of Learning & Development, with dotted-line alignment to People Operations & Culture leaders. The position is remote (US-based) with quarterly visits to Redwood City HQ.

Core Responsibilities

• Serve as the system owner of Workday Learning and Talent as well as LinkedIn Learning platforms, aligning talent and learning strategies with business objectives, enabling personalized employee experiences, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

• Consult, partner, align, guide, and train stakeholders including the wider HR team and cross-functional stakeholders for gap and improvement analysis, system roadmap strategy, implementation plans, adoption tactics, expected business impact, decision-making rights (RACI), and timelines. Lead the planning, delivery, and optimization of Talent and Learning integrations and/or orchestrations, in partnership with key system stakeholders and decision-makers to surface options, tradeoffs, and decision needs for cross-functional user and admin stakeholders related to the talent and learning roadmap.

• Design Workday learning and talent engagements and partner with internal content owners and external vendors to develop and migrate learning and talent assets and materials.

• Identify manual processes (e.g. weekly manual data loads in Emtrain), recommend automation and process changes, quantify time savings, prioritize for impact, and coordinate pilots to validate improvements.

• Partner with People Operations & Technology team to develop and support ServiceNow; act as Tier 2 escalation and subject matter expert for nuanced talent and learning process requests.

• Collaborate with People Operations & Technology team as well as HR Business Partners to create dashboards and reports that illuminate learning adoption, performance participation, and operational efficiencies; help stakeholders interpret data and make decisions.

• Create and optimize support materials (e.g. guides, demos, SOPs, intranet content) to drive system adoption and effective self-service.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Bachelor’s degree.

• 11+ years with strong, hands-on relevant experience including HR and Learning system management and improvement experience.

• Ability to continuously balance between working strategically to assess, create, and adjust system development and improvement roadmaps that align with business goals while managing daily competing priorities and projects and supporting effective decision-making.

• Hands-on experience with Workday Learning and Performance (or equivalent LMS/HCM) and experience with learning/calendar integrations (LinkedIn Learning, Outlook, Zoom).

• Strong stakeholder consulting, management, facilitation, project management skills. Able to convene senior leaders, document RACI, and move decisions forward.

• Demonstrated track record of translating business problems into system solutions and measurable process improvements.

• Practical experience with reporting and analytics and with partnering to surface insights for HR partners and business leaders.

• Experience partnering with external vendors and content creators to develop learning assets.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly collaborative approach.

• Comfortable working remotely and traveling to company headquarters in Redwood City regularly.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with managing and evolving the usage of Workday Learning and Talent features, LinkedIn Learning.

• Experienced in building content and learning paths customized to a company’s competency framework and talent/learning needs.

• Implementation and knowledge of APIs including integration with third-party training providers (i.e., GxP platforms like Veeva, Emtrain, ComplianceWire, KnowB4) is a plus. #LI-Hybrid  #LI-DN1