Turn/River Capital

About Turn/River

Turn/River Capital is a private equity firm that applies a proprietary growth engineering strategy to investing, partnering with software businesses to accelerate growth and build enduring value. The firm’s team of equal parts investors and operators provides hands-on operational support and the flexible capital to systematically scale marketing, sales and customer success at its portfolio companies. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Turn/River has $5.6bn in committed capital and invests globally with a focus on North America and Europe.

About the Role

We’re building a talent development function on our People Team to support onboarding, performance, and long-term growth across our firm. This person will lead the charge in designing scalable programs that accelerate ramp time and support functional excellence for new and tenured team members.

This is a hands-on role that spans strategy and execution. You’ll partner with leaders across all teams to create high-impact onboarding, training, and development programs. You’ll also help manage and evolve our performance review process, ensuring it's tightly linked to learning, feedback, and career growth.

In addition to your core focus on training and development, you may support a small number of broader People initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver learning programs that combine live training, self-guided resources, and embedded apprenticeship to accelerate ramp and build functional fluency.
• Own onboarding design across teams and levels, starting with week-one general onboarding and moving into role-specific training.
• Capture and codify team knowledge to make it accessible.
• Create growth and succession plans for high-impact roles where losing context or momentum would create risk.
• Conducts follow-up studies of all completed training to evaluate and measure results.
• Own our performance review process, ensuring it supports meaningful feedback, learning, and growth.
• Contribute to broader People initiatives, including areas like role leveling, career pathing, and cross-functional feedback frameworks.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent Enablement, or People Development, ideally in fast-paced environments (experience in private equity, consulting, or banking preferred).
• Proven track record designing and implementing employee onboarding and training programs.
• Ability to partner closely with a range of functional leaders and embed with teams while maintaining a systems-builder mindset.
• Experience designing content across multiple formats and delivery styles (live, async, cohort, playbooks).
• Clear, structured communicator with a bias for action and clarity over theory.
• Strong presentation skills.
• Bonus: experience contributing to the broader People strategy in small, high-performance orgs.

Location

• San Francisco, hybrid work model

Compensation

• The annual base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $230,000, taking into account numerous variable factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets, experience, training, licensure, certifications, and organizational requirements.

Benefits and Perks

The below benefits are offered to full-time employees based out of our San Francisco office:

• An opportunity to make an impact across multiple high-growth tech firms
• Competitive salary and discretionary bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible vacation policy
• 401K
• Paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits
• Donation matching
• Work from home Monday & Friday
• Energetic work environment with snacks and weekly team lunches, centrally located near multiple public transit lines
• A company that enjoys having fun: holiday parties, annual company offsite, annual summer "work from anywhere" month

Turn/River provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, natural hair styles, age (40 years and over), sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves (requesting or approved for leave under any applicable state, or federal leave act), domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, and any other characteristic or status protected by state or federal law.