North American Assessment & Selection Lead

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About the Role

As our bank transforms toward a skills-based organization, we are building next-generation talent intelligence capabilities to better understand, develop, and deploy our people. We are seeking a Talent Assessment & Skills Validation Lead to ensure that our AI-driven platforms and assessments accurately identify, validate, and develop critical workforce skills — fairly and effectively.

You will play a pivotal role in designing evidence-based assessments, validating AI models for skill inference, and embedding fairness and rigor into how we assess potential across the employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Skills & Capability Assessment

• Design and validate psychometric and behavioral assessments that measure technical, cognitive, and human skills aligned to business-critical capabilities.

• Translate job roles and tasks into measurable skill constructs to support career pathing, upskilling, and internal mobility.

• Create frameworks to continuously evaluate employee skills through structured assessments, self-evaluations, performance data, and peer feedback.

AI & Skills Inference Collaboration

• Partner with data science and AI teams to ensure that skill inference models (e.g., using NLP from resumes, projects, learning history) are psychometrically sound and fair.

• Validate that AI-generated skill profiles reflect true employee capabilities and are actionable for workforce planning.

• Co-lead bias and fairness evaluations of AI outputs, particularly as they relate to skill visibility and career opportunity equity.

Governance & Ethical Standards

• Develop protocols to monitor and audit automated skill assessments and AI recommendations, ensuring transparency, explainability, and compliance with global standards (e.g., EEOC, GDPR).

• Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to document defensible, auditable assessment practices in a regulated industry.

Strategic Talent Intelligence

• Advise senior HR and business leaders on evidence-based best practices for skills mapping, development, and deployment.

• Contribute to the global Skills Taxonomy and ensure alignment between assessments, AI models, and workforce planning needs.

• Represent the voice of ethical and valid assessment in cross-functional product, data, and HR steering groups.

Required Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Psychometrics, Behavioral Science, or a related field.

• 7+ years of experience in skills or talent assessment, preferably in global or matrixed organizations.

• Demonstrated expertise in:

  Designing and validating assessments for skills, capabilities, or job performance.

  Conducting construct validation and adverse impact analysis.

  Advising on the use of AI or analytics in people decisions.

• Strong working knowledge of:

  AI/ML systems used for talent insights (e.g., skill inference, talent matching, career pathing).

  Skills-based frameworks (e.g., SFIA, World Economic Forum, internal taxonomies).

  HR and workforce technologies (LMS, talent marketplaces, HRIS, ATS).

Preferred Experience

• Experience integrating assessments into skills-based talent platforms (e.g., Eightfold, Phenom, Beamery, Gloat, Workday Skills Cloud).

• Familiarity with global DEI standards and ethical frameworks for AI in HR.

• Understanding of workforce transformation, internal mobility, or agile workforce models.

What We Offer

• A strategic role in shaping how one of the world’s leading banks transitions to a skills-based future.

• Collaboration with leading minds in AI, talent strategy, and ethical innovation.

• Global scale, high impact, and visibility across HR, Risk, and Business leadership.

• Competitive compensation, flexibility, and professional growth opportunities.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Please be advised that this job opportunity is subject to provincial regulation for employment purposes. It is imperative to acknowledge that each province or territory within the jurisdiction of Canada may have its own set of regulations, requirements.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only):

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