Talent Development Manager

Location: Kuala Lumpur

PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia’s leading PropTech company, and the preferred destination for over 32 million property seekers monthly to connect with over 50,000 agents monthly to find their dream home. PropertyGuru empowers property seekers with more than 2.1 million real estate listings, in-depth insights, and solutions that enable them to make confident property decisions across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.

PropertyGuru.com.sg was launched in Singapore in 2007 and since then, PropertyGuru Group has made the property journey a transparent one for property seekers in Southeast Asia. In the last 18 years, PropertyGuru has grown into a high-growth PropTech company with a robust portfolio including leading property marketplaces and award-winning mobile apps across its markets in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand as well as the region’s biggest and most respected industry recognition platform – PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards, events and publications across Asia.

For more information, please visit: PropertyGuruGroup.com; PropertyGuru Group on LinkedIn.

Recognised as a Top Employers Certified* organisation, we’re proud to be among the best workplaces in the region—celebrating an inclusive culture of excellence, growth, and well-being.

PropertyGuru Group is strengthening its Talent Development capability to connect skills, performance and career growth across our markets. We are hiring this role to build the enterprise frameworks and scalable employee experience that turn business capability needs into stronger performance and clearer career pathways for Gurus.

You will lead the design and implementation of practical talent frameworks that connect job architecture, priority capabilities, performance and career growth. Working across functions and markets, you will test, refine and embed solutions that are scalable, relevant and easy for Gurus and managers to use.

What you'll own

• Skills & job architecture

• Rebuild PropertyGuru’s job, skills and competency architecture and keep it current as the business evolves
• Define the skill taxonomy underpinning hiring, development, performance and mobility
• Lead the overhaul of GuruGPS, PropertyGuru’s employee-facing career and development experience, and partner with HRIS to connect it with Workday so job, skills and career data can scale consistently

• Capability building

• Identify and build priority skills for critical talent pools and strategic business capabilities
• Design targeted, business-linked capability interventions — prioritising scalable and embedded approaches over programme proliferation
• Partner with functional leaders to translate capability gaps into development plans

• Performance

• Shape PropertyGuru’s performance philosophy, goal-setting framework and calibration governance
• Partner with HRBPs and HRIS to strengthen the annual and mid-year performance cycles, ensuring that frameworks, guidance and calibration standards are applied consistently
• Strengthen manager capability in goal-setting, feedback and performance differentiation through practical guidance, tools and standards

• Careers & mobility

Partner with HRBPs and business leaders to connect performance outcomes with career pathways, development planning and internal mobility

Build transparent progression frameworks that make growth paths visible to Gurus and actionable for managers

What you'll bring

• 7+ years in talent development, organisational development, performance management or capability building, ideally in a regional or multi-market environment
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing a skills, competency, job or performance framework from initial concept through adoption
• Strong grasp of performance philosophy, goal-setting methodology and calibration practice
• Ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels without direct authority, and to embed frameworks across diverse functions and countries
• Comfort operating across a broad mandate, making clear trade-offs and building solutions that can scale across functions and markets
• Strong analytical judgement; able to turn talent and performance data into decisions
• Confident using AI and digital tools to improve efficiency, insight and employee experience

Our commitment to you

• Hybrid flexible working that focuses on outcomes over hours.
• Holistic rewards package covering your financial, physical & mental health.
• Multi-directional career development across all levels.
• Inclusive benefits like equal paternity leave, supporting all employees in work-life balance.
• At PropertyGuru, you’ll be part of a Top Employers Certified* company that puts people at the heart of everything we do.
• Additional Locations: Ha Noi, Bengaluru