About the Company

At Current, everything starts with people. We partner with leading accounting firms across the United States, bringing them together through a shared platform that supports their growth while preserving the local identities and client relationships that make each firm unique. Our partner firms combine the close connections of a local team with the resources of a national community, giving professionals access to broader career opportunities, learning, collaboration, and innovative technology. Whether you join Current or one of our partner firms, you’ll be part of a connected team investing in your development and shaping the future of accounting.

About the Role

The Senior Director, Learning & Development owns the enterprise learning and performance strategy for Current and the firms on our platform. This role sets the direction for how our professionals develop, how performance is measured and rewarded, and how learning technology and compliance infrastructure scale alongside an aggressive acquisition pace.

This is a builder's role with a team behind it. The Senior Director leads a function spanning learning design, performance management, systems ownership, and integration delivery, and is accountable for turning a collection of firm-level practices into one coherent platform capability. The role balances long-range strategy with hands-on ownership: setting the framework, then making sure it actually lands across dozens of firms with different histories, cultures, and levels of maturity.

The Senior Director partners closely with the CHRO, firm managing partners, service line leaders, HR Business Partners, and integration teams, and serves as the executive voice for talent development across the platform.

Responsibilities

Learning Strategy & Enterprise Capability

Own the enterprise learning strategy across all firms, service lines, and career levels, from Associate through Partner.

Set the architecture for role-based learning pathways across Tax, Audit, CAS, Advisory, and Operations, and hold the standard for quality and consistency across the content library.

Lead the design and delivery of flagship leadership and business development programs, including university and external academic partnerships.

Build next-generation partner readiness, ensuring the platform has a visible pipeline of future firm leaders.

Define how learning connects to career progression, promotion criteria, and capability expectations across the platform.

Establish measures that tie learning investment to business outcomes including retention, promotion readiness, utilization, and client service quality.

Performance Management Strategy

Own the performance management philosophy, framework, and annual cycle calendar across all firms & HQ.

Set direction on goal-setting methodology, competency models, rating guides, calibration standards, and feedback practices.

Ensure performance and learning operate as one connected system rather than two parallel processes.

Partner with executive leadership on talent review, succession planning, and promotion decisions at the partner and director level.

Hold the line on rating integrity, differentiation, and equity across a decentralized multi-firm environment.

Compliance & Governance

Partner on supporting CPE compliance strategy across the platform, including sponsor registration, program standards, instructor qualification, records retention, and audit readiness.

Establish governance for learning and performance data, including documentation standards, approval paths, and system of record decisions.

Serve as the escalation point for firm-level learning specific compliance questions and ensure consistent answers across the alliance.

Systems, Data & Vendor Management

Serve as executive owner for the learning and performance technology stack, including LCvista and PerformYard.

Ensure clean integration between learning platforms, HRIS, and reporting environments so that employee data, learning assignments, and performance records stay aligned.