Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avalara is seeking a Senior Learning Program Designer to support its New Business Sales teams. The role designs and oversees large-scale learning programs, aligns courses with measurable learning outcomes and business goals, and works with instructional designers and stakeholders to improve program effectiveness, including through AI integration.
Responsibilities
- Develop and manage the structure of large-scale training programs (NEO and beyond) ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and desired outcomes
- Define program-level objectives and outcomes, ensuring clear alignment with business needs
- Partner with instructional designers to provide program frameworks and guidance for course development
- Ensure all courses within a program align with the overarching learning outcomes and program goals
- Collaborate on the sequencing of courses and content to create logical, learner-friendly pathways
- Act as the program owner, coordinating development timelines, deliverables, and resources across the team
- Ensure consistency, quality, and alignment across all program components
- Provide feedback and support to instructional designers to ensure adherence to program vision and standards
- Apply backwards design principles to align program structure with measurable outcomes
- Develop evaluation strategies to assess program effectiveness and impact, leveraging data and feedback to make improvements
- Ensure programs deliver measurable results that support both learner success and organizational goals
- Collaborate with business leaders, subject matter experts (SMEs), and other stakeholders to ensure programs meet strategic and operational needs
- Communicate program vision, objectives, and progress to stakeholders and leadership
- Monitor industry trends and best practices to incorporate innovative approaches into program development
- Regularly review and refine program structures to ensure relevance and effectiveness
- Identifies ways to integrate AI into improving development of program, automation of learner movement through program, and other areas identified where AI would have meaningful impact
- Uses Glean, chatGPT, builds Bots or Agents to further refine and create efficiency and precision in role responsibilities. patterns, and training effectiveness for your assigned Line of Business
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Curriculum Development, Instructional Design, Education, Business or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in curriculum program development, education, instructional design, or learning & development
- Proven experience designing and managing large-scale learning programs
- Strong familiarity with outcome-based instructional design approaches, such as backwards design
- Expertise in instructional design frameworks (e.g., ADDIE, SAM) and learning taxonomies (e.g., Bloom's Taxonomy)
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple program components
- Proficiency with eLearning technologies, LMS platforms, and collaborative tools
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic thinking with a focus on designing programs that deliver measurable outcomes
- Ability to guide and align teams toward a cohesive vision for complex learning programs
- Detail-oriented with a commitment to quality and consistency across program components
- Adaptive and innovative in addressing challenges and integrating new learning methods
- You'll bring experience using AI and AI-related technologies, ready to thrive here
- You'll apply AI every day to business challenges - improving efficiency, contributing solutions, and driving results for your team, our company, and our customers
- You'll grow with AI by staying curious about new trends and best practices, and by sharing what you learn so others can benefit too
- Master's degree or certifications in instructional design, learning & development, or project management
- Experience working in a corporate or enterprise learning environment
- Familiarity with backwards design, design thinking and/or Action Mapping
- Knowledge of emerging trends in learning technology, microlearning, or adaptive learning
- Background with developing training for prospecting/outbound sales preferred
Benefits
- Remote work (#LI-Remote)
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.
- Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.
- 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and executive sponsorship.
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