Employee Success ManagerActive$133K–$150K

The opportunity

Wealthfront is looking for an Employee Success Manager focused on performance management, leadership development, and talent pipelines. You will work closely with People Operations leadership and function leaders across the company.

What you'll do

  • Partner with People Operations leadership on organizational design, leveling,: and career pathways. Define the roles a function needs, tracks for individual contributors and managers, and clear expectations for success at each stage.

  • Turn those pathways into talent pipelines with content, assessments, and: practices that move people from one stage to the next.

  • Design the early career and apprenticeship pipeline that builds our next generation of homegrown talent.

  • Build the first-time manager program that turns strong ICs into confident: Coaches, and keep manager and hiring manager training on a rolling cadence so every manager gets the same foundation.

  • Research an evidence-based picture of strong individual-contributor: performance and build the development pathways that help our ICs grow.

  • Own the industry and company onboarding curriculum so new hires fulfill their: potential faster. Breaking down complex financial ideas so anyone can understand them is a core part of the craft.

What they're looking for

  • A PhD in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational behavior,: sociology, or a related field, ideally with a couple of years of industry experience across talent development, performance management, leadership development, or organizational development, though we're just as glad to meet candidates graduating now.
  • Work you built and shipped: published research or a dissertation with real-world application, a talent program or curriculum with real assessments, a performance review or calibration cycle, or an early career program.
  • Prior experience at a relevant consulting practice or on a People team at a fast-growing technology company.
  • Clear writing across curricula, scripts, guides, and company communications.
  • Comfort facilitating sessions and hosting orientations in front of a live audience.
  • An academic mindset, with the judgment to tell a rigorous study from a pop-science headline.
  • Comfort finding, analyzing, and using data to inform decisions.
  • An affinity for fintech, and the appetite to become an expert in our industry.