The Learning & Development Specialist 4 acts as the site learning partner for LMM KM, translating business needs into practical capability-building solutions. The role manages the site learning portfolio, partners with leaders and HR stakeholders, and designs, facilitates, and improves learning experiences that strengthen employee capability, leadership effectiveness, culture, and time-to-productivity.
1. Site Learning Strategy & Needs Diagnosis
- Understand LMM KM business priorities, workforce changes, capability gaps, and learning needs.
- Partner with leaders, HRBPs, managers, and stakeholders to diagnose capability needs and determine suitable learning solutions.
- Translate needs into a prioritized site learning roadmap aligned to business and talent priorities.
2. Learning Portfolio & Program Management
- Manage site learning initiatives from discovery and design through delivery, evaluation, and improvement.
- Set clear objectives, milestones, roles, risks, communications, and resource needs.
- Coordinate delivery with internal partners, facilitators, vendors, and regional or global teams.
- Track portfolio health, participation, learner experience, risks, and impact; share concise updates and recommendations.
3. Stakeholder Partnership & Engagement
- Serve as a trusted advisor and primary contact for site learning priorities and solutions.
- Build strong partnerships with leaders, HR, functions, SMEs, and external partners.
- Align stakeholders on sponsorship, decisions, manager involvement, and post-learning application.
4. Learning Design & Experience Development
- Design practical learning solutions such as workshops, learning journeys, toolkits, guides, job aids, and blended experiences.
- Apply adult learning, instructional design, inclusion, accessibility, and behavior-change principles.
- Curate and adapt enterprise, regional, local, and external content for site needs.
5. Facilitation & Learning Enablement
- Facilitate classroom, virtual, and blended sessions for employees and leaders.
- Create inclusive, application-focused learning environments that encourage participation and practice.
- Enable facilitators, leaders, and SMEs through briefings, materials, train-the-trainer support, and delivery guidance.
6. New Employee Onboarding & Integration
- Own and improve the site New Employee Onboarding (NEO) and integration experience.
- Partner with HR, hiring managers, site functions, and business teams to align onboarding content, roles, communications, and handoffs.
- Design integration experiences that build culture, connection, role clarity, site understanding, and faster contribution.
7. Measurement, Insights & Continuous Improvement
- Define success measures for learning initiatives, including learner experience, application, and business-relevant outcomes where feasible.
- Analyze learning data and feedback to identify trends, gaps, barriers, and improvement opportunities.
- Engage managers and stakeholders to reinforce learning and assess workplace application.
- Prepare clear insights, impact stories, and recommendations to improve the learning portfolio.
8. Learning Operations, Governance & Standards
- Manage learning operations, including scheduling, communications, logistics, vendors, records, LMS administration, and budget tracking.
- Maintain documentation, data, and controls aligned with enterprise, local, quality, and audit requirements.
- Simplify, standardize, automate, or scale learning processes while preserving business relevance.
- Learning needs analysis and performance consulting
- Stakeholder engagement and influencing in a matrixed environment
- Adult learning and instructional design
- Confident facilitation across classroom, virtual, and blended formats
- Program and project management with strong execution discipline
- Onboarding, integration, and employee experience design
- Clear written, verbal, and executive-level communication
- Learning evaluation and data-informed improvement
- Change enablement, collaboration, and vendor partnership
- Minimum 7-10 years of experience in L&D, OD, Talent Development, HR, or related fields.
- Experience diagnosing needs and designing, facilitating, and managing learning solutions end-to-end.
- Experience partnering with leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in matrixed or multi-site environments.
- Experience with onboarding, integration, learning measurement, operations, and platforms.
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Learning, OD, Business, Education, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
We believe it is important for every person to feel valued, included, and empowered to achieve their full potential. By bringing unique individuals and viewpoints together, we achieve extraordinary results.
Lam Research ("Lam" or the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer. Lam is committed to and reaffirms support of equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination in employment policies, practices and procedures on the basis of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. It is the Company's intention to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Company policy prohibits unlawful discrimination against applicants or employees.
Lam offers a variety of work location models based on the needs of each role. Our hybrid roles combine the benefits of on-site collaboration with colleagues and the flexibility to work remotely and fall into two categories – On-site Flex and Virtual Flex. ‘On-site Flex’ you’ll work 3+ days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, with the opportunity to work remotely for the balance of the week. ‘Virtual Flex’ you’ll work 1-2 days per week on-site at a Lam or customer/supplier location, and remotely the rest of the time.
