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A place to share your ideas freely - even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.\nWhat you’ll be doing...\nYou will lead the strategic direction and execution of our vendor solution curriculum portfolio, orchestrating a high-performing design team that blends human instructional expertise with agent-augmented methodologies. You will evolve our curriculum strategy from traditional delivery models to an agentic operating model, fostering a \"quality-by-design\" culture. This is a leadership role focused on driving team performance, scaling our talent operations, and ensuring our curriculum remains agile, effective, and aligned with business outcomes.\nAdditional responsibilities include:\nLeading a team responsible for sourcing and managing external training vendor relationships, navigating contract negotiations, optimizing enterprise training budgets and credit balances, and administering the Vendor Catalog within VTeam Central.\nGuiding team members in consulting with business leaders to identify performance gaps, fulfill technical training needs through third-party vendors, and rigorously evaluate the learning effectiveness and business impact of these external programs.\nPivoting the team from a FIFO (First-In, First-Out) model to a strategic, data-informed prioritization framework, using learning data insights and performance signals to validate needs and sequence work.\nIntegrating data privacy protocols and AI ethics directly into the design process to ensure quality, establish strict hallucination-reduction guardrails, and protect corporate intellectual property.\nActing as a strategic advisor, connecting strategies to tangible outcomes by measuring the speed-to-market, cost-reduction, and performance impacts of our learning architectures.\nLeading, coaching, and empowering curriculum designers to integrate GenAI and agent-assisted tools into their development workflows without sacrificing instructional integrity.\nTranslating functional plans into operational processes and guides execution. Receiving broad guidance. \nActing as an advisor and guides others in resolving complex issues.\nUnderstanding and working on significantly more complex issues requiring the analysis and in-depth evaluation of variable factors. \nDeveloping resolutions that require the frequent use of creativity. Creating methods and procedures. Exercising independent judgment and adapting complex techniques for obtaining results.\nIn this remote role, you'll work from home with occasional in-person trainings and meetings.\nWhat we’re looking for…\nYou’ll need to have:\nBachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.\nSix or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.\nCurrent HR and/or Learning & Development experience. \nThree or more years of experience in a people leadership role. \nWillingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.\nEven better if you have one or more of the following:\nA degree. \nThree or more years of experience in a leadership role managing instructional design and/or vendor sourcing teams.\nVendor management experience. \nExperience with using and guiding others to use AI tools (e.g., GenAI for drafting, agent-assisted practice labs) to drive efficiency and quality.\nStrong change management skills with the ability to inspire, energize, and guide teams through disruptive technological transformations.\nHigh executive presence with the ability to frame the strategic value of an \"Agentic Operating Model\" to non-technical stakeholders and translate business goals into team objectives.\nProven ability to balance speed and scale with instructional rigor, ensuring that rapid agent-enabled content production maintains the highest standards of safety and compliance.\nIf Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.\nWhere you’ll be working\nIn this remote role, you'll work from home with occasional in-person trainings and meetings.Scheduled Weekly Hours\n40Equal Employment Opportunity \nVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.\nBenefits and Compensation\nOur benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. 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