Senior Learning Experience Designer

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The Learning, Design, and Technology (LDT) team within the Teaching and Learning Hub (TLH) at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) provides learning design and instructional technology expertise to support faculty in their teaching and enhance the student learning experience at the GSB.
The LDT team contributes critically to innovations in teaching and learning, incubating and piloting new teaching technologies, techniques, and programs.
We are looking for a Senior Learning Experience Designer to partner with faculty and the Exec Ed Online team to create engaging and impactful learning experiences through excellence in design.
This role collaborates closely with the instructional media and academic technology teams within TLH to develop and deliver participant-facing content for learners, including global and executive audiences.
The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in learning design, content development, and project planning; exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; and be excited to collaborate with other teams within TLH to bring faculty teaching to life through innovative, engaging, and impactful learning experiences.
Please Note: This is a hybrid position, requiring regular on-site work at the Stanford GSB campus on a weekly basis.
Your primary responsibilities include: Uncover the unique teaching and learning needs specific to each course and/or program.
Consult with faculty to identify and formulate learning goals and objectives to design, develop, implement, and evaluate online and blended learning experiences and programs.
Collaborate with media production and educational technology colleagues to support and enhance the teaching and learning goals and create innovative and engaging media and learning experiences.
Design, develop, and deliver instructional content.
Implement, evaluate, and maintain online and blended learning.
Employ project management techniques to ensure that design and development projects meet requirements for teaching and learning, are scoped properly, and are delivered on schedule.
Manage internal and/or external teams, schedules, and budgets.
Establish and improve processes for production, post-production, and delivery resources, tools and equipment necessary to develop learning content.
To be successful in this position, you will bring: Bachelor’s degree and seven years of relevant experience or combination of education and relevant experience.
Demonstrated effectiveness in consulting with business partners and faculty to assess learning needs and develop online and blended learning experiences.
Demonstrated proficiency in applying instructional design theory, models, and best practices.
Demonstrated proficiency using instructional design tools such as learning project plans, design documents, learning hierarchies, storyboards, prototypes, etc.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all members of a learning team, faculty, media and design, and program staff to create engaging, effective, and innovative learning experiences.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate the effectiveness of online and blended learning experiences.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to clearly and succinctly convey learning content in a manner that engages learners and improves learning.
Experience integrating online learning with one or more learning management systems.
Demonstrated ability to work with diverse groups and individuals at any and all levels of an organization.
Demonstrated skills in project management or learning development projects involving the development of multimedia content.
In addition, preferred requirements include: Experience developing learning experiences for executive audiences.
Experience working on cross-functional teams with media professionals, academic technologists, and software developers.
Experience working with contract and contingent staff designers.
Master’s degree or higher in education, curriculum and instruction, learning technologies, or related fields.
The expected pay range for this position is $99,000 - $135,000 per annum.
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