Manager and Talent Enablement Lead

Manager and Talent Enablement Lead at Sanity

At Sanity.io, we’re building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. Our AI Content Operating System gives teams the freedom to model, create, and automate content the way their business works, accelerating digital development and supercharging content operations efficiency. Companies like SKIMS, Figma, Riot Games, Anthropic, COMPLEX, Nordstrom, and Morningbrew are using Sanity to power and automate their content operations.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Manager and Talent Enablement Lead who will design and drive the programs that accelerate employee impact - from onboarding through ongoing manager capability. This role owns company-wide onboarding, manager enablement, and core talent programs that embed performance expectations into our operating rhythms.

This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who thinks in systems, designs for scale, and believes great companies are built through strong managers.

What You'll Do

Company-Wide Onboarding (End to end Program Design)

• Own the vision and architecture for Company onboarding across all functions and levels
• Own and evolve full-cycle onboarding programs, from pre-boarding through the first 30, 60, 90 days, ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience for new hires
• Design performance based frameworks that define what success looks like at 30/60/90 days
• Equip managers with the guidance, expectations, and tools needed to effectively onboard new team members.
• Establish new hire feedback loops and continuous improvement cycles
• Develop and maintain manager-facing toolkits, playbooks, and resources
• Partner with People Ops on seamless logistics execution

Manager Enablement & Capability Building

• Design and deliver manager fundamentals programming
• Create practical tools for feedback, performance management, and coaching
• Embed leadership expectations grounded in company values
• Partner with PBPs to address capability gaps surfaced in talent reviews
• Build scalable enablement (toolkits, playbooks, workshops, async resources)

Talent Programs & Performance Infrastructure

• Support calibration and talent review processes
• Build resources that clarify “what great looks like” by role and level
• Partner on promotion and performance cycles to reinforce clarity
• Embed talent insights into operating rhythms alongside business reviews

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Design success metrics for onboarding and manager effectiveness
• Track new hire ramp time, retention, engagement and feedback
• Assess manager capability by performance outcomes
• Use data to iterate and improve programs

About You

• 6-10 years experience in an L&D, Organization Development, People Business Partner, or People Programs role
• Deep experience building manager enablement programs
• Systems thinker who connects onboarding to performance and retention
• Strong facilitator and communicator
• Comfortable influencing senior leaders
• Data-driven and outcome-driven
• Located in the San Francisco Bay Area

What We Can Offer

• A highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
• Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment that encourages long-term professional and personal growth
• A global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
• Comprehensive health plans and perks
• A healthy work-life balance that accommodates individual and family needs
• Competitive stock options program and location-based salary

Who We Are

Sanity.io is a modern, flexible content operating system that replaces rigid legacy content management systems. One of our big differentiators is treating content as data so that it can be stored in a single source of truth, but seamlessly adapted and personalized for any channel without extra effort. Forward-thinking companies choose Sanity because they can create tailored content authoring experiences, customized workflows, and content models that reflect their business.

Sanity recently raised a $85m Series C led by GP Bullhound and is also backed by leading investors like ICONIQ Growth, Threshold Ventures, Heavybit and Shopify, as well as founders of companies like Vercel, WPEngine, Twitter, Mux, Netlify and Heroku. This funding round has put Sanity in a strong position for accelerated growth in the coming years.

You can only build a great company with a great culture. Sanity is a 200+ person company with highly committed and ambitious people. We are pioneers, we exist for our customers, we are hel ved, and we love type two fun! Read more about our values here!

Sanity.io pledges to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our product serves. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas, and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Key skills/competency

• Talent Enablement
• Program Design
• Onboarding Strategy
• Manager Development
• Performance Management
• Learning & Development (L&D)
• Organizational Development (OD)
• HR Programs
• Systems Thinking
• Data-Driven Decision Making