Senior Learning Experience Designer

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About The Opportunity

Learning experience designers (LXDs) lead the development of high quality, innovative, and effective training programs that equip learners with resources and activities necessary to successfully meet learning objectives. LXDs work independently, and with the support of instructional designers (IDs), to collaborate with stakeholders, determine learner needs, and recommend appropriate learning strategies, while leveraging knowledge of instructional design, higher ed, and Ellucian learning technologies.

Where you will make an impact

• Lead the vision and guide the direction of Ellucian product training programs and curricula
• Create a training vision for stakeholders and transform that vision into engaging instructional strategies and assets, ensuring alignment with the overall training program vision
• Recommend appropriate modes of training delivery, including but not limited to elearning, instructor-led, and blended training
• Apply instructional design theories and best practices to training the development and maintenance of training programs, while also guiding IDs to achieve consistent, excellent results
• Lead the design of engaging learning activities and compelling course content that enhances retention and knowledge transfer
• Project manage, plan, and organize product training programs and curricula
• Create timelines, monitor milestones and deliverables, and address risks and roadblocks
• Work closely with IDs to provide direction, feedback, and quality assurance as they carry out the development of training deliverables
• Adhere to documented instructional design standards and processes to ensure quality and consistency
• Assess existing learning resources and program curricula to ensure quality and accuracy of training content and to identify gaps in the curriculum
• Determine criteria to assess learner performance
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Interpret and apply current and emerging adult learning theories and project management strategies to the management of training programs and curricula
• Comfortably lead training programs in a deadline-oriented work environment, while managing and executing complex projects simultaneously, with a high degree of quality
• Collaborate expertly while working on cross-departmental teams
• Lead the development of training that deals with technical content and subject matter while enabling others to understand it
• Lead the design and development training in a variety of modalities, such as on-demand (elearning), instructor-led, and blended experiences
• Work successfully on a global team across a variety of geographic locations and cultures
• Summarize technical information (verbally and in writing) for a non-technical audience
• Work proficiently and lead the development of IDs on content authoring tools such as Articulate 360 suite, Adobe Captivate, video editing tools, text-to-speech technologies, etc.
• Demonstrate high proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, communication (written and verbal), and organizational skills
• Demonstrate strong leadership, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
  
  

What makes #Ellucianlife

• Comprehensive health coverage: family major medical expenses, dental and life insurance.
• Christmas bonus 30 days
• Saving fund
• Monthly food coupon
• 15 workdays vacation
• Thrive Flex Program that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Women in Technology, Pride and Go Green to name a few.
• Parental leave
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Tuition Reimbursement Assistance
• Professional development opportunities