At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.
The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!
The Senior People Development Partner designs and delivers practical, scalable talent development solutions that build capability, strengthen performance, and support employee growth. This role partners with business leaders and People Partners to diagnose capability needs and translate business priorities into engaging learning experiences.
This hands-on role combines instructional design, facilitation, consulting, and project leadership. The Senior People Development Partner independently leads initiatives from needs analysis through implementation and evaluation, contributes to enterprise Talent Development programs, and uses AI and emerging technologies to improve learning effectiveness and efficiency.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design and facilitate engaging learning programs, workshops, and blended experiences using adult learning, instructional design, and behavior-change principles.
- Create practical learning assets, including facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, e-learning, microlearning, and pre-work.
- Partner with business leaders and People Partners to identify capability gaps, understand root causes, and recommend targeted development solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, translating business needs into clear learning strategies and practical actions.
- Lead end-to-end People Development projects, including needs assessment, scoping, planning, stakeholder alignment, content development, delivery, evaluation, and sustainment.
- Contribute to enterprise programs across onboarding, career development, performance management, manager development, leadership development, and succession planning.
- Build scalable solutions and resources that can be deployed globally while allowing for appropriate local context.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and vendors to ensure solutions are relevant, inclusive, accurate, and aligned to intended outcomes.
- Support adoption through clear communication, manager enablement, change management, reinforcement, and on-the-job application.
- Define success measures and use feedback, learning analytics, talent data, and business indicators to evaluate impact and improve programs.
- Support the effective use of learning technologies, including the LMS and digital learning platforms, and apply generative AI to improve content development, personalization, accessibility, and efficiency.
Basic Qualifications
- 5-8 years of experience in Talent Development, Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- Experience designing, developing, and facilitating learning for employees, managers, and leaders.
- Strong knowledge of adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and behavior-change principles.
- Experience leading end-to-end learning or Talent Development projects and partnering with leaders and People Partners to develop solutions.
- Strong consulting, communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and project management skills.
- Experience with learning management systems, digital learning platforms, and content development tools.
- Practical proficiency using generative AI to improve learning design, content creation, or workplace productivity.
- Ability to use data and feedback to assess effectiveness, make recommendations, and improve learner experiences.
- Strong critical thinking, organization, adaptability, and ability to work effectively with globally distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a global SaaS, software, cybersecurity, or technology organization.
- Experience supporting manager development, leadership development, career development, performance management, or onboarding programs.
- Familiarity with talent management platforms, learning analytics, digital authoring tools, and virtual learning technologies.
- Experience designing scalable learning solutions for geographically distributed audiences.
- Familiarity with change management, organizational effectiveness, capability building, and content curation.
SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
All applications are treated in accordance with the SolarWinds Privacy Notice: https://www.solarwinds.com/applicant-privacy-notice
Skills Required
- 5-8 years of experience in Talent Development, Learning and Development, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- Experience designing, developing, and facilitating learning for employees, managers, and leaders.
- Strong knowledge of adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and behavior-change principles.
- Experience leading end-to-end learning or Talent Development projects and partnering with leaders and People Partners.
- Strong consulting, communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and project management skills.
- Experience with learning management systems, digital learning platforms, and content development tools.
- Practical proficiency using generative AI for learning design, content creation, or workplace productivity.
- Ability to use data and feedback to assess effectiveness and improve learner experiences.
- Strong critical thinking, organization, adaptability, and ability to work with globally distributed teams.
- Experience in a global SaaS, software, cybersecurity, or technology organization.
- Experience supporting manager, leadership, career, performance management, or onboarding programs.
- Familiarity with talent management platforms, learning analytics, digital authoring tools, and virtual learning technologies.
- Experience designing scalable learning solutions for geographically distributed audiences.
- Familiarity with change management, organizational effectiveness, capability building, and content curation.
SolarWinds Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SolarWinds and has not been reviewed or approved by SolarWinds.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with some locations covering healthcare, dental, and vision at 100% and generally well-regarded plan quality. Feedback suggests wellness resources, counseling, and fitness reimbursements further strengthen the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and a sabbatical after five years are part of the package. Feedback suggests global parental leave minimums add meaningful family support to the overall time-off mix.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Compensation is considered solid by many, with consistent raises noted alongside base pay. Feedback suggests bonuses and structured increases contribute to a sense of ongoing pay growth.
SolarWinds Insights
What We Do
SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK® community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services.
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