Learning Experience Designer

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. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is :

Grade : Professional 308 Pay Range : $73,000.00 - $109,400.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities :

• Designs and participates in projects that involve cross-functional, agile teams by developing engaging, and effective learning experiences that impact employees
• Conducts user research including SME interviews, surveys, and usability testing
• Designs learning experiences achieving robust outcomes in both training courses and the affective / non-cognitive domain
• Understands adult learners, and designs experiences accordingly
• Wireframes actionable learning interactions and iterates designs based on efficacy and usability studies
• Applies best-practice UX and UI design skills to create proof-of-concepts, mockups, and prototypes
• Efficiently produces multiple approaches for usability testing, AB testing and stakeholder presentations
• Contributes collectively with other developers, and trainers, to ensure technical feasibility of designs
• Ensures learning design and content development are completed on time and within budget and meets standards of quality
• Collaborates with peers to apply and drive best practice learning experience design
• Works mostly with situational and highly complex projects or assignments
• Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with stakeholders
• Stays current with trends, leading science and innovations, and research in learning science, instructional media, UI / UX and learner behavior
• Successfully collaborates with stakeholders to ensure designs are aligned with desired outcomes
• Reviews feedback and uses it to improve content or to provide recommendations for learning experience improvements
• Ensures developed curriculum meets or exceeds desired outcome metrics and improves the training experience
• Provides training as needed
• Models leadership and professionalism
• Fulfills other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities

Education

Experience

Experience in lieu of education

Equivalent relevant experience performing the essential functions of this job may substitute for education degree requirements. Generally, equivalent relevant experience is defined as 1 year of experience for 1 year of education and is at the discretion of the hiring manager.

Preferred Qualifications

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Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours) : This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; 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; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply : If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer : The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It's not all-inclusive.

Accommodations : Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity : All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.