Leadership and Professional Development Specialist

Job title: Leadership and Professional Development Specialist

About the Role Jump Trading is hiring a hands-on, player-coach Learning & Development professional to cover the APAC region. This role will partner with the global L&D team to extend and execute Jump's comprehensive learning and development strategy across all employee levels in APAC.

What You'll Do

• Partner with the global L&D team to design, drive, and execute Jump’s learning and development strategy and framework, focusing on established employees, new experienced hires, emerging managers, and senior executives.
• Critically assess and evaluate learning opportunities to meet local business needs, cultural norms, and cross-cultural collaboration.
• Build and implement a comprehensive range of technical and leadership development training across APAC in conjunction with global efforts.
• Cultivate and maintain a network of internal and external experts to deliver learning programs, including outside coaches and trainers, assessment specialists, or partnerships with select academic faculty.
• Foster an experimental approach to executing the learning strategy, running pilot programs with select groups to explore proof-of-concept, then exporting successful offerings to other groups within the firm that may benefit from them.
• Focus on development needs at the individual, management, and team levels.
• Devise a methodology for quantifying outcomes and measuring ROI. Take accountability for the results.
• Be collaborative and influential, with an ability to build consensus and work effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Be comfortable with change, showing resilience in the face of ambiguous, challenging scenarios.
• APAC is not one market, it is at least 5 distinctly different cultural operating environments - effective L&D in this region requires deep cultural intelligence, not just awareness.
• You will work with Business Leaders and People Ops partners to understand and define talent needs to proactively manage the talent learning and development agenda.
• Other duties as assigned or needed.

What We're Looking For

• At least 8+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or Talent Development.
• Hands-on and low-ego, comfortable operating in a lean team without a large support structure.
• Ability and willingness to lean into a global L&D team model to collaborate, align on priorities, and strategize both global and local approaches to leadership and professional development.
• Advanced degree in IO Psychology, Organizational Development, Education, or related discipline; strong foundational knowledge in psychology, organizational behavior, or coaching methodology.
• Experience in financial services, quantitative trading, hedge funds, or high-performance technology environments.
• Significant experience managing complex, multi-regional programs in a matrixed, high-growth environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills that build relationships at all levels across the organization with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build consensus; has partnered directly with business leaders, not just HR - can sit across from a trading desk head or engineering lead, understand their real challenges, and translate them into targeted development interventions.
• Established track record for taking a consultative approach to designing and delivering (training yourself and partnering with trainers) learning programs with measurable business results that meet stakeholder needs.
• Experience managing and/or using a Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Experience Portal (LXP) to curate on-demand learning content and/or manage live courses, a plus.
• Experience and interest in some internal facilitation, a plus.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Nice to Have

• Experience managing and/or using a Learning Management System (LMS) or Learning Experience Portal (LXP) to curate on-demand learning content and/or manage live courses, a plus.
• Experience and interest in some internal facilitation, a plus.