Learning Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Facilitate discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and curriculum mapping discussions to ascertain business objectives, learner requirements, capability gaps, and success metrics.

• Analyze performance challenges and propose learning or performance-driven solutions that align with client priorities.

• Convert intricate business and learner inputs into straightforward strategic recommendations.

• Establish overarching learning strategies, program frameworks, learner pathways, and modality recommendations across digital, live, blended, and performance-support solutions.

• Develop architecture documents, journey maps, and solution blueprints to guide project teams from initial concept to final delivery.

• Suggest modalities, sequencing, reinforcement, and measurement strategies based on audience, context, timeline, and budget.

• Ensure that solutions adhere to adult learning principles, client branding requirements, and regulatory or compliance standards.

• Collaborate with business development and internal leaders on scopes of work, budgets, effort levels, and proposals.

• Present solution concepts and architectural reasoning to both internal and client stakeholders.

• Assess trade-offs among scope, timeline, budget, and learner impact.

• Direct writers, designers, developers, and project teams in transforming strategy into tangible deliverables.

• Offer guidance, feedback, and coaching throughout the concept development and design phases.

• Act as the senior perspective on solution quality, feasibility, and strategic alignment.

• Define measurement methodologies, KPIs, assessments, and data points that relate to learning and business objectives.

• Review insights post-launch and suggest improvements or enhancements.

• Spot opportunities to implement contemporary learning methods, emerging technologies, and innovative design approaches.

• Contribute to internal standards, frameworks, templates, and playbooks.

• Share knowledge and enhance strategic design thinking within the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A graduate degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Adult Learning, Organizational Development, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.

• Over 8 years of experience in designing learning solutions, curriculum architectures, or capability-building programs, ideally within regulated industries.

• Experience on the agency side in the pharmaceutical or biotech sectors is mandatory.

• Extensive experience leading needs analysis, discovery processes, and strategic solution design.

• Proven ability to develop comprehensive learning architectures across various modalities.

• Experience in presenting to senior stakeholders and translating complex needs into clear, actionable learning strategies.

• Strong understanding of adult learning science, curriculum design, measurement strategies, and learning technology ecosystems.

• Familiarity with LMS/LXP platforms, eLearning development workflows, and modern learning tools.

• Demonstrated capability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong organizational judgment and the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams.

• Willingness to travel occasionally, up to 10%, for client workshops, presentations, and strategic planning sessions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities and protection from discrimination and harassment.

• Occasional travel, up to 10%, for client workshops, presentations, and strategic planning sessions.