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Enablement Designer, Recruiting and People – Contractor (12-Month Engagement)

Company
Datadog
Location
New York, NY
Work type
Full Time
Posted
2026-10-01

Job description

What You’ll Do:
Design and build modular enablement content across the recruiting lifecycle: intake, sourcing, assessment, closing, candidate experience, systems.
Produce it to a publishable standard: facilitator guides, participant materials, job aids, async modules, knowledge checks, and the LMS and SCORM packaging that gets them live.
Facilitate the core curriculum on an agreed cadence, including regional delivery.
Build the measurement layer: completion, confidence, and manager-reported readiness against a baseline.
Contribute the AI layer into existing manager development rather than building a parallel leader track.
Leave a maintainable content model: source files, owners, review cadence, update triggers.

Who You Are:
5+ years in Talent Acquisition, Enablement, Learning & Development, or instructional design, with meaningful time inside or directly supporting a recruiting function
A prolific content builder — you can point to curricula, playbooks, and training materials you personally designed and shipped
A confident facilitator who can hold a room of experienced recruiters, in person and virtually
Fast to ramp and comfortable operating with limited hand-holding; you can walk into a new organization, diagnose the gaps, and start producing
Experienced working as a contractor or consultant, with a track record of scoped delivery against a timeline
Skilled at building credibility quickly with stakeholders you do not manage
Comfortable designing for a global audience across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC
Experienced developing or coaching people leaders is a strong plus

What This Role Is Not:
Ownership of the overall Recruiting Enablement program, roadmap, or budget — that remains with Recruiting Operations leadership
People management or headcount ownership
Ongoing operational support for recruiting systems or processes

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