Sr. Talent Development Manager

Description

AppFolio is more than a company. We’re a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.

AppFolio is looking for a Sr. Talent Development Manager to provide strategic vision and leadership for our people practices. In this role, you will be instrumental in cultivating a culture of performance excellence by designing and implementing talent programs that drive business results, engage employees, and build our leadership pipeline.

Your impact

• Establish a Talent Management Vision: Lead the evolution of AppFolio's talent management strategy, identifying and solving significant and unique problems related to organizational performance and growth. You will gather internal and external data to determine priorities, leading the conceptual design of new programs and processes.
• Drive Organizational Planning & Succession: Partner with HR Business Partners and executive leadership to architect a comprehensive people and organizational talent framework. You'll move beyond a simple cadence to design a robust strategy for leadership bench development and succession planning, ensuring seamless internal mobility and organizational alignment.
• Innovate Performance Management: Conceptualize, develop, and champion innovative, inclusive approaches to performance management, goal-setting, and feedback. You will influence and partner with key stakeholders across the organization to gain acceptance on these complex initiatives and drive company-wide adoption.
• Implement Talent Management Systems: Apply deep expertise in talent management to design simple, elegant, and highly effective practices and systems. You will lead the development of data-driven solutions with end-users in mind, leveraging your conceptual thinking to solve complex talent challenges.
• Champion Change Management: drive change management for high-complexity HR programs, providing guidance & enablement to ensure successful change adoption across the organization, bring stakeholders along accordingly.
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Strategic & Conceptual Thinking: A proven ability to identify and solve high complexity, significant problems using conceptual thinking and the creative application of methods and techniques. You should be a forward-thinker who can translate business goals into a comprehensive talent strategy.
• Executive Influence: Demonstrated experience persuading and partnering with key stakeholders across functions to gain buy-in and acceptance on complex matters. You are an expert at building trust and credibility with senior leaders, influencing organizational priorities through data-driven recommendations.
• Independent Judgment: The ability to exercise independent judgment in determining priorities and solving problems. Your work product is solid, focusing on strategic communication with leadership rather than routine review.
• Broad & Deep Expertise: A history of applying broad and/or deep expertise to talent and performance management, organizational design, and employee engagement. You have a track record of developing and implementing customized, high-impact talent programs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Business & Organizational Acumen: Exceptional business acumen with the ability to foresee the organizational impact of business decisions. You are skilled at diagnosing systemic issues and providing strategic recommendations to achieve maximum organizational performance.
  
  
  

Compensation & Benefits

The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $138,400 - $173,000 [base pay]. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, education, experience, and internal equity.