Learning Experience Designer (LXD)
Unboxed Training & Technology · Richmond, VA · 1 mo ago
Hybrid$70k–$85k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Learning Experience Designer (LXD) creates engaging training solutions that help clients improve learners' skills and performance. This client-facing role uses instructional design and content-development expertise to support training projects. Working with senior team members, project managers, subject-matter experts, and clients, the LXD develops high-quality learning materials for instructor-led, virtual, blended, and digital programs. The role focuses mainly on training services while building familiarity with Unboxed's Skill Building Platform.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop learning solutions applying adult-learning principles and digital-first design practices to create innovative and effective blended learning experiences
- Translate learning objectives, content outlines, and subject-matter-expert input into clear, accurate, and visually effective learning materials
- Use established templates, design standards, and AI driven content-development processes to ensure deliverables are consistent and high quality
- Incorporate stakeholder feedback while helping maintain alignment to learning objectives, design standards, scope, and project requirements
- Support learning evaluation, including the development of assessments, surveys, feedback mechanisms, or other measures of learner response and performance
- Participate in client-facing meetings, discovery sessions, design reviews, and working sessions with appropriate support from senior team members
- Assist with needs analysis by gathering, organizing, and documenting information about learners, business needs, performance gaps, and desired outcomes
- Communicate professionally and consultatively with clients, SMEs, and internal stakeholders
- Translate client needs into clear solution recommendations and help define what is in and out of scope
- Recognize when a training request involves organizational change and apply foundational change management thinking to learning design decisions
- Execute assigned project tasks reliably and independently, meeting established deadlines, quality expectations, and delivery and scope requirements
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including content inventories, design documents, review logs, version-control records, and task status updates
- Identify potential risks, content gaps, timeline concerns, or dependency issues and escalate them to the appropriate project lead
- Conduct self-review and peer-review activities to ensure deliverables meet quality, accessibility, brand, and usability standards
- Collaborate effectively with project managers, LXDs, Senior LXDs, Lead LXDs, creative partners, product teams, and client stakeholders
- Share observations and ideas that may improve learning assets, development workflows, or templates, and support team delivery improvement as opportunities arise
- Build foundational knowledge of the Unboxed Skill Building Platform including