Description
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Now more than ever, our guiding principles are helping us in our search for exceptional talent - candidates who align with our unique workplace culture and who want to maximize the abundant opportunities for growth and success.
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HSS is consistently among the top-ranked hospitals for orthopedics and rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report. As a recipient of the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the distinguished designation. Whether you are early in your career or an expert in your field, you will find HSS an innovative, supportive and inclusive environment.
Working with colleagues who love what they do and are deeply committed to our Mission, you too can be part of our transformation across the enterprise.
Emp Status
Regular Full time
Work Shift
Compensation Range
The base pay scale for this position is $112,000.00 - $200,000.00. In addition, this position will be eligible for additional benefits consistent with the role. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be determined based on various factors, including but not limited to: scope of role, level of experience, education, accomplishments, internal equity, budget, and subject to Fair Market Value evaluation. The hiring range listed is a good faith determination of potential compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.
What you will be doing
Director, Learning & Systems
Hybrid
ABOUT HSS
HSS is the world leader in musculoskeletal health. Ranked #1 in orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report for 16 consecutive years, HSS is defined by its commitment to clinical excellence, innovation, and its people. As the Talent function grows in ambition and sophistication, learning sits at the heart of how we build capability, develop leaders, and prepare the organization for its next chapter. This role is central to making that happen.
POSITION SUMMARY
Reporting to the Vice President of Talent, the Director of Learning & Systems is a senior individual contributor role that combines deep expertise in program design and delivery with strong technical proficiency in the Workday Learning module. This is not a traditional L&D role — it demands someone who can operate at the strategic level, design and deliver high-impact learning experiences, and own the systems and infrastructure that make learning accessible and measurable at scale.
You will be both an architect and a builder — defining what great learning looks like at HSS, and ensuring the systems, platforms, and processes are in place to deliver it. This is a role with genuine breadth, visibility, and the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on how HSS develops its people.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR IN A PERSON
Beyond the required skills, we are looking for someone who brings a specific set of qualities:
- A natural builder: energized by creating things that didn’t exist before and making them excellent.
- Equally comfortable in strategy and execution: moves fluently between the big picture and the detail.
- Technically confident: owns Workday Learning with depth and brings a genuine systems mindset.
- A compelling communicator: can inspire a room and write a clear, purposeful brief with equal ease.
- Collaborative and service-oriented: builds strong relationships and works through others to get things done.
- Data-informed: uses insight to evaluate what’s working and makes evidence-based decisions.
- Deeply accountable: owns outcomes, not just tasks — and holds their work to a high bar.
- AI-minded: embraces AI tools to accelerate content creation, personalization, and program delivery.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Learning Strategy & Program Design
- Partner with the VP of Talent to develop and execute a comprehensive learning strategy aligned to the organization’s capability framework and business priorities.
- Design and deliver high-impact learning programs for clinical and non-clinical audiences — with a primary focus on soft skills, leadership capability, and professional development.
- Design methodologies and tools to assess enterprise-wide training needs, translating findings into an actionable learning agenda.
- Evaluate external vendor content and actively support eLearning platform adoption.
HSS Enterprise Learning Council
- Serve as a core member of the HSS Enterprise Learning Council — partnering across functions to identify, prioritize, and deliver content that meets the current and future capability needs of the organization.
- Leverage and champion AI to develop customized content with appropriate guardrails.
- Build and maintain an internal training cohort capable of designing, developing, and delivering content to council standards — serving both clinical and non-clinical audiences.
HSS Leadership Academy, Mentoring & eLearning
- Support the VP of Talent in designing and deploying the HSS Leadership Academy — facilitating sessions, administering assessments, providing developmental coaching, and managing all related events.
- Design, build, and own a best-in-class enterprise-wide mentoring program — pairing emerging leaders with senior leaders for structured guidance and support, and managing the full annual cycle.
- Partner with the VP of Talent & Educational Institute to onboard and deploy the organization's eLearning platform — driving stakeholder education, adoption, and engagement; aligning catalogue offerings to identified development needs informed by Workday data; and designing curated learning pathways that connect employees to the right content at the right time in their development journey
- Ensure programs and tools are continuously evaluated and refined based on outcomes and participant feedback.
New Employee Orientation
- Oversee a best-in-class orientation experience for all employee types — blending in-person connection with digital delivery through an engaging monthly program.
- Design a structured 90-day follow-up experience, including facilitated leadership sessions, to reinforce early engagement and cultural immersion.
Workday Learning — System Ownership
- Serve as the primary owner of the Workday Learning module — maintaining, optimizing, and evolving it in line with business needs and best-practice standards.
- Administer the LMS end-to-end: user accounts, permissions, enrollments, learning paths, content cataloguing, and governance frameworks.
- Lead sandbox testing, release management, and production releases — ensuring system changes are assessed, tested, and communicated effectively.
- Support eLearning platform integration and act as the voice of Learning in technical forums, including bi-annual Workday releases.
- Produce and maintain all end-user documentation and training materials to drive adoption and LMS excellence.
Reporting, Analytics & Stakeholder Partnership
- Build and maintain contextualized learning dashboards that go beyond completion rates to deliver insight on learning impact, skill development, and program effectiveness.
- Partner with the Director of Talent Mgt & Systems and HR Technology to ensure learning data is integrated, consistent, and actionable.
- Serve as a credible learning partner to HRBPs, senior leaders, and HR Shared Services — managing external vendor relationships and bringing a change management mindset to every rollout.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, HR, Organizational Development, or a related field required; master’s degree strongly preferred.
- 8–10 years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, with demonstrated expertise in program design, facilitation, and delivery.
- Strong, hands-on proficiency in Workday Learning module administration — including catalogue management, reporting, and release management.
- Workday Pro certification in Learning strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience designing leadership development programs, mentoring schemes, and enterprise learning strategies.
- Instructional design capability — able to develop content and facilitation guides across multiple learning modalities.
- AI literacy — actively uses AI tools to accelerate content creation and program development.
- Strong data and analytics capability — able to build meaningful reports and translate learning data into insight and action.
- Healthcare or complex, matrixed organization experience a strong plus.
- Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
A FINAL WORD
This is a role for someone who believes that learning is one of the most powerful levers an organization has — and who has the skills, energy, and ambition to prove it. If you are energized by building things that matter, take pride in excellence, and want to be part of a team with genuine momentum — we’d very much like to meet you.
Non-Discrimination Policy
Hospital for Special Surgery is committed to providing high quality care and skilled, compassionate, reliable service to our community in a safe and healing environment. Consistent with this commitment, Hospital for Special Surgery provides care, admits, and treats patients and provides all services without regard to age, race, color, creed, ethnicity, religion, national origin, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, veteran or military status, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local law or by accreditation standards.
