Cambridge, MA, USA Remote (City)

IDEO is hiring an IDEO U Senior Learning Experience Designer (Contract)

About the Role

IDEO is looking for a Senior Learning Experience Designer to create interactive content and experiences that help individuals and teams collaborate, innovate, navigate uncertainty, and tackle complexity. You will develop leading-edge, mostly virtual courses for a global audience.

What You'll Do

  • Design and develop engaging, mostly virtual learning experiences using a mix of written content, video, visuals, frameworks, digital interactions, and collaborative activities.
  • Translate cutting-edge ideas and expert knowledge into scalable, bite-sized multimedia learning that is motivating, accessible, and enjoyable.
  • Collaborate closely with producers, product, and marketing partners to bring learning experiences from concept through launch, contributing to story development, approvals, and platform delivery.
  • Conduct research and content development, including identifying topics and partners, interviewing subject matter experts, synthesizing insights, and shaping learning objectives and curriculum.
  • Support iteration and improvement post-launch by incorporating learner feedback, contributing to learner support, and refining content to enhance the overall experience.

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience writing, designing, and crafting content for online courses and learning experiences.
  • Expertise in designing learning content for the professional sector (e.g., business, strategy) and/or soft-skill topics (e.g., creativity, storytelling, people leadership).
  • Strategic communication ability, capable of utilizing a variety of visual and verbal mediums.
  • Skilled at synthesizing and distilling information into succinct learning concepts, breaking complexity into elegance.
  • Skilled at writing for a range of formats such as short-form stories, video scripts, case studies, text-based articles, and/or punchy 1-liners, flexing tone and style for different audiences.
  • Experience crafting learning content and experiences that are inclusive and resonate with diverse audience needs, especially for underrepresented communities.
  • End-to-end project leadership developing a digital educational experience, taking a holistic, learner-centered approach.
  • Expertise in designing curriculum for soft-skill topics such as creativity, storytelling, people leadership, and/or business sectors such as strategy, innovation, design thinking, and MBA-type content.
  • Previous experience with digital tools such as Mural, Figma, CMS, or LMSs like NovoEd.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working with talent throughout the production/filming process, including directing talent and guiding performance.
  • ‘Launch and learn’ iterative testing expertise, such as setting up experiments, developing rapid prototypes, and testing offers against strategic goals or learner needs.

Technical Stack

  • Mural, Figma, CMS, LMSs such as NovoEd

Team & Environment

You will join a multidisciplinary team and work closely with partners spread across the US in three time zones. Our culture is curious and motivated by a learner’s experience, and we enjoy rolling up our sleeves to test new ideas and get things done.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Salary: $70,000–$90,000 USD annual salary equivalent.
  • Optional voluntary benefits through a third-party payroll vendor.

Work Mode

This is a remote position. Candidates may be based in Cambridge, MA, Chicago, IL, or San Francisco, CA.

IDEO is committed to paying its employees, contractors & vendors equitably, regardless of gender identity or race/ethnicity/cultural identity.

Required Skills
MuralFigmaCMSLMSNovoEdLearning Experience DesignInstructional DesignWorkshop FacilitationUser ResearchPrototypingCollaborative DesignProject Management MuralFigmaCMSLMSNovoEdLearning Experience DesignInstructional DesignWorkshop FacilitationUser ResearchPrototypingCollaborative DesignProject Management
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IDEO
IDEO U is a learning experience and community that helps leaders tap into their creativity and the creativity of others to generate new ideas, creative solutions, and unexpected opportunities now and in the future. It aims to catalyze and grow the community of creatively confident leaders around the globe through online courses and a supportive network.
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Posted 3 months ago