Learning Architect

Job Summary

You are the blueprint builder who transforms business ambitions into learning ecosystems that drive results. As a Learning Architect, you will guide clients from first sketch to full launch, shaping solution strategies that connect business goals, learner needs, and measurable performance outcomes.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and curriculum mapping conversations to identify business goals, learner needs, capability gaps, and success measures
• Diagnose performance challenges and recommend learning or performance-based approaches that align to client priorities
• Translate complex business and learner inputs into clear strategic recommendations
• Define high-level learning strategies, program structures, learner journeys, and modality recommendations across digital, live, blended, and performance-support solutions
• Create architecture documents, journey maps, and solution blueprints that guide project teams from concept through delivery
• Recommend the right mix of modalities, sequencing, reinforcement, and measurement approaches based on audience, context, timeline, and budget
• Ensure all solutions align to adult learning principles, client brand needs, and regulatory or compliance requirements
• Partner with business development and internal leaders to shape scopes of work, budget assumptions, level-of-effort thinking, and proposal language
• Present solution concepts and architectural rationale to internal and client stakeholders with clarity and confidence
• Help evaluate tradeoffs across scope, timeline, budget, and learner impact
• Guide writers, designers, developers, and project teams in translating strategy into deliverables
• Provide direction, feedback, and coaching throughout concepting and design
• Serve as a senior point of view on solution quality, feasibility, and alignment to the approved strategy
• Define measurement approaches that align learning outcomes to business or performance goals
• Identify meaningful KPIs, assessment approaches, and data points to inform evaluation
• Review post-launch insights and recommend strategic improvements or future enhancements
• Identify opportunities to apply modern learning methods, emerging technologies, and new design approaches where they meaningfully improve the solution
• Contribute to internal standards, frameworks, templates, and playbooks that strengthen the organization’s design capability
• Share expertise and elevate strategic design thinking across the team

Skills

• Strong experience leading needs analysis, discovery, and strategic solution design
• Demonstrated ability to create end-to-end learning architectures across multiple modalities
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders and translating complex needs into clear, actionable learning strategies
• Strong understanding of adult learning science, curriculum design, measurement strategy, and learning technology ecosystems
• Familiarity with LMS/LXP environments, eLearning development workflows, and modern learning tools
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence without direct authority
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational judgment and ability to manage multiple complex workstreams

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Adult Learning, Organizational Development, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
• 8+ years of experience designing learning solutions, curriculum architectures, or capability-building programs, preferably in regulated industries