[Hiring] Director of Training @AVIXA, Inc

Role Description

AVIXA is looking for a Director, Training - Business and Product Portfolio to lead and grow one of the association’s most important business lines: training. This is not a traditional curriculum-leadership role. We are looking for a commercial education/product leader who can understand what learners and customers value, what they need and will spend money and/or time for, what they will complete, and what will help AVIXA grow the reach and impact of its training for the AV industry.

• Own the day-to-day strategy, roadmap, performance, and operating priorities for AVIXA’s training business.
• Work with a talented internal team and cross-functional partners to make practical, data-informed decisions about what to build, improve, package, price, scale, localize, or sunset.
• Accountable for training revenue, margin, learner volume, adoption, certification-related impact, product performance, and perceived quality.
• Shape the portfolio, not just manage courses.
• Lead roadmap, lifecycle, prioritization, MVP decisions, resource tradeoffs, and product recommendations.
• Work directly with the VP of Content Creation and represent the training business in important internal, customer, and cross-functional conversations.
• Bring together inputs from Sales, Marketing, Membership, Customer Service, Expo, IT, regional offices, Finance, technical experts, curriculum teams, and major customers to move the business forward.
• Improve operating discipline, product decision-making, customer feedback loops, roadmap clarity, and the commercial performance of training.
• Work with emerging AI education development resources, learning delivery teams, product/project support, and content experts to explore more scalable and innovative ways to serve learners.

Qualifications

• Open to several possible backgrounds: certification, association education, B2B training, professional education, edtech, customer education, media/content products, events/content, SaaS/product, or similar environments.
• Strong candidates will bring commercial judgment, P&L or revenue accountability, portfolio discipline, executive communication, and the ability to lead multiple teams and stakeholders toward practical business outcomes.
• Deep instructional design expertise is not required; awareness to evaluate quality, challenge assumptions, manage scope, and align efforts to business and learner impact is necessary.

Requirements

• Have owned or meaningfully influenced a revenue-generating education, content, certification, training, or product portfolio.
• Enjoy using data, customer insight, financial signals, and sales feedback to decide what to build, improve, scale, or stop doing.
• Balance learner value, brand quality, margin, speed, resource capacity, and executive stakeholder expectations.
• Comfortable in customer and executive conversations without needing a senior leader to step in for every high-stakes discussion.
• Lead teams and stakeholders without needing every function to report directly to you.
• Work with curriculum and technical experts without needing to personally write the curriculum.
• Understand that great education products must be useful, credible, buyable, scalable, and financially sustainable.

Benefits

• Generous PTO and holiday time off.
• Flexible working hours, with an option for a Compressed Work Week (i.e., 9/75 work week, or every other Friday off).
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401k plan with company matching.
• Pet insurance.
• Learning and career development opportunities.
• Education assistance.