At Adaptive, we’re Powering the Age of Immune Medicine. Our goal is to harness the power of the adaptive immune system to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treated.
As an Adapter, you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. With Adaptive, you’ll create a career highlight through collaboration with bright, curious colleagues working at the apex of innovation and application.
It’s time for your next chapter. Discover your story with Adaptive.
Position Overview
The Program Manager, Talent Development is a key contributor to Adaptive’s talent strategy, partnering closely with the Director, Talent Acquisition & Development to design, build, and deliver high-impact programs that drive growth and learning for Adapters. This role is both strategic and operational – owning initiatives across the employee lifecycle, including orientation, training programs, leadership development, and career growth. This role is a member of, and partners closely with others on, the People and Culture Team.
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker and empathetic collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced environment. They bring expertise in talent program design and execution, and are energized by translating ideas into meaningful deliverables while always keeping the employee experience at the center.
Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Shape and execute Adaptive’s Talent Development strategy in alignment with business needs and future growth.
- Partner with HR People Partners and business leaders to anticipate talent gaps and deliver scalable, high-impact development solutions.
- Own the end-to-end development and delivery across Talent Development, including orientation, training programs, and career pathing.
- Designs and facilitates learning experiences that balance a blend of learning modalities, mediums, audiences, locations, scope and scale.
- Lead change management and stakeholder engagement efforts to drive adoption and impact.
- Serve as a consultant to business leaders, translating complex talent concepts into actionable strategies.
- Develop and implement measurement frameworks to assess program effectiveness, adoption, and ROI.
- Train and support internal facilitators to compound results for delivering exceptional learning experiences.
- Pilot innovative approaches to talent development, including AI-enabled learning, experiential settings, and cross-functional accelerators.
- Maintain strong cross-functional relationships and serve as a trusted thought partner across the organization.
- All other duties as assigned.
Position Requirements (Education, Experience, Other)
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- 7+ years of progressive experience in talent development or learning/training (or related).
- Experience building program materials, toolkits, and learning content
- Proven success designing and executing talent programs across multiple domains (ie. career pathing, performance, and succession planning, etc).
- Strong data fluency with ability to translate insights into strategy.
- Experience managing complex, interdependent projects with autonomy.
- Advanced communication and facilitation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across levels and functions.
- Experience managing vendor relationships and external partnerships.
- Experience building programs that reinforce company culture and values.
Preferred
- Advanced degree in Adult Learning, Instructional Design, Organizational Leadership, Human Resource Management, and/or Psychology (or related field).
- Responsibility and evidenced track record of leading enterprise-wide initiatives and change management efforts.
- Prior experience successfully supporting commercial, laboratory, operations, and/or information technology organizations.
- Ability to work from our Seattle, WA headquarters.
Compensation
Salary Range: $113,500 - $170,300
Other compensation elements include:
- equity grant
- bonus eligible
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Interested in this position, but don’t meet all the requirements? Adaptive is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across our organization. Please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match all the qualifications; you may be the exact candidate we’re searching for!
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Adaptive’s posted compensation information includes a base salary (or hourly rate) range and summary of other available total compensation. The base salary range represents a minimum-to-maximum salary (or hourly rate) available to candidates upon extension of offer. Base salary is thoughtfully considered upon offer and is determined through multiple evaluation checks throughout the interview process, including: a candidate’s ability to meet minimum qualifications (skills/experience/education), a candidate’s ability to thoughtfully address preferred qualifications, current market conditions, and internal pay equity. Listed base salary is exclusive of bonus, commission, equity, differential pay, benefits, and other incentives.
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What We Do
Adaptive Biotechnologies is a pioneer and leader in immune-driven medicine that aims to improve people’s lives by learning from the wisdom of their adaptive immune systems. Adaptive’s proprietary immune profiling platform reveals and translates insights from our adaptive immune systems with unprecedented scale and precision. Working with drug developers, clinicians and academic researchers, we are applying these insights to develop products that will transform the way diseases -- such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, and infectious diseases -- are diagnosed and treated. For more information, please visit adaptivebiotech.com.
