Associate Learning Product Owner, Salt Lake City, UT

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career. Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency‑based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student‑focused professionals.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and development of learning experiences aligned to learner needs, business priorities, and market demand.
• Apply learning science, user experience design, and accessibility best practices to learning experience development with guidance from senior team members.
• Assist in managing a portfolio of learning products from concept through launch while supporting cross‑functional stakeholder partnerships.
• Partner with assessment and development teams to align competencies, assessments, and instructional strategies.
• Create supporting resources such as playbooks, documentation, and video walkthroughs for learning products.
• Monitor product performance using defined success metrics, including engagement, persistence, and completion, and share findings with stakeholders.
• Support agile delivery by coordinating with project managers and cross‑functional teams, communicating project updates, identifying risks, and helping integrate emerging technologies and AI‑enabled solutions into learning experiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Learning Experience Design, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• 1 year of experience supporting digital learning product design or development.
• Experience working in collaborative, cross‑functional environments.

Qualifications

• Foundational knowledge of learning science, instructional design, and adult learning theory.
• Ability to support end‑to‑end learning experience design from concept through evaluation.
• Ability to interpret basic data and help translate insights into product improvements.
• Familiarity with instructional technologies and digital learning platforms.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work productively in ambiguous environments with guidance from leadership.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate design rationale and project status to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Master's degree in Instructional Design, Education, Learning Experience Design, or a related field (preferred).
• Experience in competency‑based education or online higher education (preferred).
• Familiarity with UX/UI design principles and tools (preferred).
• Experience using AI tools in learning design, content creation, development workflows, or analysis activities (preferred).
• Exposure to agile or iterative product development environments (preferred).

Pay

Grade: Professional 306 – $62,100.00 to $93,200.00

Schedule

Full‑time, regular position (40 standard weekly hours) with flexible paid time off, flexible paid sick time (no accrual), 11 paid holidays, up to 12 weeks of parental leave, and other paid leaves.

Benefits

• Eligibility for bonuses.
• Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, and mental health care.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Basic and voluntary life insurance.
• Disability coverage.
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages.
• Legal and identity theft coverage.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Wellbeing program.
• Discounted WGU tuition.

Location

In‑office position in Salt Lake City, Utah, requiring five days per week on site.

Travel

Occasional travel up to 20%, including attendance at company summits (typically one to two per year) and other business‑related events such as conferences.

Visa Sponsorship

WGU does not provide visa sponsorship for this role.