Senior Talent Development Specialist

Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

About The Role

We are hiring a Senior Talent Development Specialist to design and evolve the end-to-end talent development, manager enablement, and skills architecture at Chainlink Labs.

This role is focused on journey architecture, experience design, and enablement systems, with an emphasis on building scalable frameworks while also facilitating them as needed. The focus is on designing the frameworks, experiences, and data foundations that enable employees and managers to grow, build skills, and navigate careers in a fast-moving Web3 environment.

Working closely with People, Business, and Functional leaders, this role translates employee career growth as a key lever to retention and business performance, into cohesive talent journeys embedded in the flow of work. The role operates with high autonomy, exercises independent judgment, and is accountable for outcomes that impact talent readiness, manager effectiveness, and long-term organizational capability.

This is a senior individual contributor role. While there is no people management responsibility, the role requires thought leadership, cross-functional influence, and the ability to shape direction at an organizational level.

Your Impact

In this role, you will design and evolve the end-to-end talent development and manager enablement experience at Chainlink Labs, using a skills-based architecture to connect growth, capability, and talent decisions across the HR lifecycle. You will operate as a senior individual contributor, shaping how employees and managers build skills, grow careers, and lead effectively in a fast-moving Web3 environment.

• Act as a subject matter expert in career development across functional and management paths, influencing through experience, data, and systems thinking
• Partner with senior leaders and People stakeholders to translate business priorities into coherent talent experiences
• Design and own end-to-end talent and manager journeys across functional and management career paths
• Map manager journeys and identify high-ROI “moments that matter” where targeted enablement drives outsized impact
• Architect scalable frameworks, tools, and guidance that enable managers and employees in the flow of work
• Build and evolve a skills-based talent architecture that supports skill supply and demand, development, and internal mobility
• Enable personalized learning and growth pathways through practical, skills-driven design
• Generate skills and talent insights that inform hiring, development, deployment, and workforce decisions
• Define success measures and use qualitative and quantitative signals to continuously improve talent and manager experiences

Requirements

• Deep expertise in talent development, manager enablement, skills-based talent systems, or organizational effectiveness
• Demonstrate working fluency with AI tools, including comfort building and using lightweight app scripts or automations to support enablement, insights, and experimentation
• Demonstrated ability to operate at a conceptual and systems level, particularly in ambiguous problem spaces
• Strong independent judgment and comfort owning outcomes with organization-wide impact
• Proven ability to influence across functions and senior stakeholders through clarity of thinking and narrative
• Experience designing talent, manager, or skills journeys that integrate multiple touchpoints rather than isolated programs
• Comfort operating in high-growth, distributed, or non-traditional environments

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 7+ years of related experience, or equivalent advanced degree and experience
• Background spanning manager enablement, career architecture, skills frameworks, or talent systems design
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect talent capability to business outcomes
• Experience using data and insights to inform design, prioritization, and iteration
• Familiarity with learning and talent technologies as enablers, not drivers, of experience design

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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