Job Title: Training Architect - Remote
Duration (Contract): 6 Months
Client Location: Sacramento, CA, 94203
Location Preference: Remote
Job Description:
- As a Training Architect, you are responsible for developing delivery strategies, building solution proposals, defining resource requirements, creating commercial models, and supporting successful implementation of instructor-led (ILT), virtual instructor-led (VILT), blended, and enterprise skilling programs.
- This position combines customer-facing consulting, solution design, operational strategy, and business planning to ensure successful program outcomes.
Role Overview:
- Primary Focus: Enterprise live training solution design, scoping, financial modeling, and implementation readiness.
- Delivery Models: Instructor-led training, virtual instructor-led training, blended learning, private group training, and public enrollment programs.
- Core Partners: Sales, Product Management, Training Operations, Delivery Management, Customer Success, Content, and Finance.
- Business Impact: Improves proposal quality, delivery readiness, operational scalability, and customer confidence in Client learning solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enterprise Solution Design:
- Partner with customers to understand business objectives, learning requirements, target audiences, and success measures.
- Design end-to-end learning solutions utilizing ILT, VILT, private group, public enrollment, and blended delivery models.
- Develop scalable delivery architectures that support global and regional training initiatives.
- Recommend optimal delivery strategies based on customer goals, timelines, budgets, geographic requirements, and learner populations.
- Solution Development & Commercial Strategy:
- Develop comprehensive statements of work, implementation plans, delivery assumptions, and solution proposals.
- Create resource plans, instructor strategies, scheduling approaches, and delivery models.
- Build pricing models, cost estimates, margin projections, and financial assumptions.
- Partner with Sales and Business Development teams to support customer presentations, proposal responses, and strategic opportunities.
- Ensure proposed solutions align with operational capabilities, quality standards, and business objectives.
- Delivery Readiness & Resource Planning:
- Define instructor, facilitator, and operational staffing requirements.
- Establish delivery schedules and global deployment strategies for complex learning programs.
- Design operational processes required to support successful implementation.
- Facilitate transition from solution design to delivery execution by working with operations and delivery teams.
- Customer Consulting & Stakeholder Management:
- Lead discovery sessions, requirements workshops, and solution review meetings.
- Act as a trusted advisor to customers throughout the solution lifecycle.
- Present recommendations, delivery strategies, implementation plans, and commercial approaches to executive and operational stakeholders.
- Manage customer expectations regarding scope, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and success metrics.
- Cross-Functional Leadership:
- Collaborate with Sales, Product Management, Training Operations, Delivery Management, Customer Success, and Finance teams.
- Partner with curriculum and content teams to ensure learning solutions align with customer requirements.
- Support operational readiness reviews and program launch planning.
- Facilitate communication and decision-making across internal and external stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement & Innovation:
- Evaluate program outcomes, customer feedback, and operational performance data to improve future solutions.
- Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and scale reusable solution components.
- Monitor industry trends in enterprise learning, workforce skilling, AI-enabled learning solutions, certifications, and digital transformation.
- Contribute to best practices, frameworks, templates, and solution playbooks.
Required Skills, Experiences, Education and Competencies:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
- 5+ years of experience in solution architecture, consulting, learning services, program management, sales engineering, or training operations.
- Experience designing enterprise learning, workforce skilling, or professional training solutions.
- Strong understanding of ILT, VILT, blended learning, and enterprise delivery models.
- Experience developing customer proposals, statements of work, budgets, pricing models, and implementation plans.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience supporting global enterprise customers and multinational training deployments.
- Knowledge of training operations, instructor management, resource scheduling, and large-scale program delivery.
- Experience with enterprise certification programs, technology training, and workforce skilling initiatives.
- Proficiency with learning management systems (LMS), CRM platforms, virtual training technologies, and collaboration tools.
- Experience with financial modeling, commercial analysis, and cost-of-sales planning.
- Familiarity with AI, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and digital transformation learning programs.
Compensation:
- The hourly range for roles of this nature is $50.00 to $80.00/hr.
- Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.
Equal Opportunity:
- cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.