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Lead, Leadership Development
William Blair Company LLC · 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 13 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 3 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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The US Department of Labor certified 13 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 3 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Solutions for Today’s Challenges. Vision for Tomorrow’s Opportunities. Join William Blair, the Premier Global Partnership. We are looking for a Lead, Leadership Development who is passionate about helping leaders thrive in their roles and advance their careers. Our team takes a holistic approach to leadership development — combining formal programs, coaching, and performance systems, delivered as one collaborative HR team. This role owns the training and program piece of that effort: you'll lead the design and delivery of leadership programs for first-time managers through senior leaders, building and sustaining a healthy pipeline as you develop the firm's next generation of leaders. Concretely, that means designing and delivering formal programs for managers stepping into the role for the first time, alongside ongoing, targeted development for experienced managers already leading teams. You'll be equal parts content creator, facilitator, and program manager — running multiple leadership initiatives at once, most of which you'll be building from the ground up rather than inheriting fully formed. We're looking for someone with significant experience designing and facilitating leadership development content, who's energized by creating something new rather than maintaining something established. We value candidates who take pride in the quality of their work, own their results, and bring strong instincts for what makes learning content actually land. This role reports to the Director, Talent Development & Culture, and has no direct reports. Responsibilities include but may not be limited to: • Build program content: Design and develop curriculum, materials, and learning experiences for leadership development programs, working within an established strategic framework. • Deliver post-promotion cohort programs: Design and facilitate structured programming for newly promoted senior leaders as they move into expanded roles. • Run a pre-management pipeline program: Design and deliver a skill-building curriculum that prepares high-performing individual contributors for the transition into management. • Facilitate ongoing manager development: Deliver targeted programming and coursework for experienced managers already leading teams, building their capability over time. • Maintain the leadership self-service toolkit: Own and continually expand a set of resources managers can use on their own to support everyday leadership tasks. • Deliver leadership assessment results: Facilitate readback and development conversations for senior audiences using tools such as Hogan. • Manage external vendor relationships supporting leadership/management content, as needed. • Partner with HR Business Partners to understand business-unit-specific leadership development needs and inform how programs are delivered. • Manage programs operationally through the LMS, including scheduling, reporting, and participant engagement tracking. • Additional responsibilities, as requested. Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree. • 9-12 years of professional experience in learning and development. • 5 years of demonstrated experience designing and delivering end-to-end management and/or leadership development programs is required; this is not a role for someone who has primarily managed vendors. • Strong instructional design and facilitation skills; must be confident and experienced both designing content and personally delivering it to manager and senior-leader audiences. • Experience building programs in ambiguous, early-stage environments (i.e., building from a partial foundation rather than a mature program) strongly preferred. • Strong consulting mindset with the ability to synthesize strategy, data, and stakeholder input into clear, actionable recommen