Position: L&D Programs Lead
Company: Astound Commerce
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Astound Academy collaborates with global engineering to provide a world-class Bootcamp program that educates and prepares attendees for employment at Astound Commerce in the fields of engineering and development. You will play a critical role in leading boot camps and coaching, in collaboration with engineering and recruiting, to enable talent that starts with basic skills to succeed in one of the fastest-growing sectors of the world economy.
We are seeking a Program Lead who has experience in developing training curricula, has good English and is prepared to improve, and has proven experience developing training success metrics and training improvement.

Responsibilities:

Plan year-round boot camps for Astound professions, integrating current Bootcamp best practices and expanding into new functions.
Create a framework for measuring learning success and piloting Bootcamp innovation that improves efficiency without reducing quality.
Manage a team of two Bootcamp Coordinators and act as a Bootcamp Coordinator.
Identify training material gaps and needs for improvement; coordinate with SME and global training to develop and deploy the material.
Design e-learning courses and workshops etc.
Lead the Bootcamp community in fostering proposals for improvement, piloting the improvement, collecting results and then expanding new best practices.
Work closely with recruiting to maximize the value of training
Build customized instructional programs for hires that need targeted training.
Embrace different styles of training techniques and methods relevant to the learning audience to ensure full engagement
Maintain all training materials and research used to build current and future materials in a database. 
Collaborate with Functional Managers to identify skill sets to develop and the best learning solutions to meet team important metrics; align expectations and analyze the results
Establish and lead partnership programs with universities and other suppliers
Act as the first point of contact for key partners on major learning program activities targeting employees who need additional skills to be work-ready

You have:

Experience leading a training department in an engineering company and/or significant experience in developing training programs with a high practical component (practice over theory)
Proven negotiation and project management skills
Experience to effectively communicate with people of different cultures and levels of seniority;
Experience to organize training events and prepare supplementary materials in a timely and effective manner;
Ability to work independently and effectively manage time;
Ability to supervise and manage the process of learning;
Flexibility;
Servant-leadership and service mindset
University Bachelor's degree or higher;
Excellent verbal and written English;
Experience working for an IT company is a plus.
An overall positive attitude and high emotional intelligence

We offer:

A key role in a positive, entrepreneurial team that is fulfilling a critical company mission
Knowledgebase of the world's largest eCommerce delivery team;
Extended professional education and continuous learning;
Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
Internal/external engineering and business training and conferences
Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes;
A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams (Ukraine, Colombia, Bulgaria, India, Slovakia, Turkey)
Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.