Growth & Development Director
Date: Mar 20, 2026
Location: Exton, PA, US
Company: Bentley Systems
Location: Remote work available to qualified candidates in the US. Ideally, candidates will be located in Eastern or Central Time zone with preference on Hybrid in the Exton office.
Reports to: Director, Talent
Position Summary:
We are seeking a forward-thinking builder to transform how capability is developed and scaled across Bentley – moving beyond traditional training towards personalized, just-in-time enablement embedded in the flow of work. Reporting to the Director, Talent, the Director Learning Enablement is a business-first, practical enablement leader who will design and deliver a modern and integrated capability ecosystem that enables colleagues to perform, adapt and grow at the speed of the business. The focus is on practical, applied solutions that drive measurable outcomes that are aligned to business needs.
Leading a small team, this role delivers deep onboarding across Bentley’s global footprint, manager capability tools, AI-driven learning support, and role-based capability pathways for managers and individual contributors.
As part of the Talent COE, you’ll partner closely with HRBPs, Talent Management, Total Rewards and Colleague Experience to translate enterprise talent priorities into targeted capability and enablement solutions, ensuring colleagues and managers are supported at critical moments that matter. You will focus on delivering high-impact training needs now while evolving the approach based on dynamic enablement, capability academies, and skills-based programs.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Learning & Enablement Partner
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Serves as a trusted consultant to HR, to understand business priorities, challenges, and capability gaps.
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Diagnoses development needs using data, feedback, and business context.
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Translates needs into practical, scalable learning and enablement solutions.
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Enables and governs embedded trainers and subject matter experts to scale impact.
Learning in the Flow of Work
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Designs focused enablement embedded in everyday tools, systems, workflows, and team rituals.
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Builds a connected learning ecosystem that prioritizes real-time, on demand, inflow support over classroom training.
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Ensures learning is simple, relevant, and accessible at time of need.
AI Enabled Learning & Capability Acceleration
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Leverages AI to deliver personalized, role relevant learning that accelerates skill development and application.
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Applies AI to track learning impact and connect capability building to measurable business outcomes.
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Guides adoption of a modern, AI enabled learning culture through experimentation and scale.
Infrastructure Onboarding
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Owns a modern onboarding learning experience enabling new colleagues, especially technical and user facing roles, to quickly understand the infrastructure industry, Bentley’s products, and value.
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Delivers onboarding through personalized, AI guided learning and hands-on, inflow experiences.
Leader Enablement, Skills & Career Growth
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Equips managers with practical, inflow tools to support real conversations, coaching, and day-to-day leadership.
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Shapes experience driven leadership and manager development aligned to business needs.
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Partners with Talent Management to build transparent, skills-based career pathways and development signals.
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Translates enterprise capabilities and skills taxonomy into clear, role and team level growth paths.
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Partners with Total Rewards to align skill and capability growth with pay-for-performance frameworks.
Qualifications
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8+ years in learning, capability building, or enablement roles supporting product and software companies, with a demonstrated track record of practical, in-flow solutions
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Proven success in modernizing learning ecosystems and building end-to-end onboarding for complex products/industries.
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Experience translating business strategy and capability needs into role-based pathways and manager tools
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Demonstrated partnership with HRBPs; ability to consult, simplify, and influence
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Familiarity with skills frameworks and how learning connects to driving performance, career advancement and expansion and skills development.
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Hands-on experience with AI for learning (curation, summarization, Q&A, search) and with common enterprise learning platforms
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Excellent communication and content design skills, with the ability to operate independently and a strong bias for action in a fast-moving, global environment.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience in technology or engineering-centric companies and/or product organizations
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Background in capability academies, communities of practice, and SME-driven content models
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Experience integrating performance enablement and goals with learning journeys in partnership with Talent Management
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Change management experience and comfort rolling out new ways of working with leaders and teams
Key Capabilities
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Execution & Delivery: Translates strategy into action and delivers AIenabled learning solutions at pace.
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AI Curiosity & Application: Experiments with emerging AI tools and applies insights to improve learning and performance.
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Measurement & Governance: Uses data to monitor adoption, manage risk, and continuously improve impact.
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Business Partnership & Influence: Builds strong relationships and positions learning as a driver of performance and capability growth.
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Diagnosis & Design: Identifies root performance gaps and designs targeted, practical solutions.
What We Offer
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A great Team and culture – please see our colleague video.
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An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction - watch this short documentary about how we got our start.
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An attractive salary and benefits package.
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A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
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A company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world. Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.
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About Bentley Systems
Around the world, infrastructure professionals rely on software from Bentley Systems to help them design, build, and operate better and more resilient infrastructure for transportation, water, energy, cities, and more. Founded in 1984 by engineers for engineers, Bentley is the partner of choice for engineering firms and owner-operators worldwide, with software that spans engineering disciplines, industry sectors, and all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle. Through our digital twin solutions, we help infrastructure professionals unlock the value of their data to transform project delivery and asset performance. www.bentley.com
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