Learning Associate Manager

The Learning Associate Manager role role will shape the evolution of learning strategy, design next-gen capability development ecosystems, and drive meaningful transformation across our enterprise. In this pivotal leadership role, you will partner directly with clients and cross-functional teams to reimagine how learning fuels business strategy in an AI-powered world.

You wont just create learning programsyoull engineer the future of capability enablement, infusing it with GenAI, immersive tech, real-time skills intelligence, and adaptive frameworks to power workforce transformation at scale.

Your Impact

As the Learning Associate Manager, you'll serve as the strategic architect and experience designer for learning interventions that enable rapid upskilling, behavior change, and long-term growth. Youll operate as both thought leader and execution partner, guiding Learning Studio teams to deliver bold, measurable outcomes across a dynamic development pipeline of Academies, solutions, and enterprise programs.

This is a high-influence, high-visibility role for a leader who is equal parts visionary, builder, and operator.

What Youll Lead

Learning Strategy

• Develop future-fit learning strategies grounded in business priorities, workforce trends, and the evolving skills landscape.
• Design learning pathways that guide learners across proficiency levels, supported by modern frameworks, digital ecosystems, and on-demand technologies.
• Leverage tools like talent intelligence platforms, AI-enabled L&D diagnostics, and predictive workforce planning to shape learning roadmaps.

Curriculum Innovation, Planning & Solutioning

• Proactively engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic priorities, pain points, and emerging capability needs.
• Translate business drivers into bold learning solutions by recommending the most impactful learning architectures, modalities, and experiences.
• Curate and integrate learning assets from internal and external sources to build dynamic, role-based learning ecosystems.
• Develop and document solution requirements via Preliminary Learning Briefs (PLBs) or executive-ready summary decks.
• Review and map source content to skill frameworks and performance goalsidentifying gaps and opportunities for innovation.
• Define and iterate on initial scope, budget, and resource models, leveraging data to optimize speed, scale, and impact while closing skill gaps, enabling business agility, and empowering people to grow.
• Generate and negotiate multiple solution pathways, tailoring the approach to learner needs, tech readiness, and business goals.

• Craft transformative learning solutions that blend storytelling, science, and smart technology (e.g., VR, adaptive learning, scenario-based simulations).
• Maintain curriculum relevance through continuous content optimization, performance data insights, and learner feedback loops.

Strategic Demand & Pipeline Planning

• Partner with clients and business sponsors to map out 30/60/90-day learning demand, scope, and timelines with agility and foresight.
• Manage resource allocations and staffing projections, ensuring the right capabilities are in place to deliver at speed and scale.
• Continuously assess the development pipeline, balancing capacity with innovation potential.

Stakeholder Influence & Advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner, helping stakeholders navigate complexity and align learning with organizational outcomes.
• Guide clients through the design-to-deploy journey, building consensus, addressing friction points, and unlocking new value.
• Use data storytelling to enable decision-making, highlight performance trends, and advocate for ongoing investment in learning.

Operational Excellence

• Partner with the Learning Studio Lead on goals, deliverables, timelines and dependencies to execute projects (e.g. staffing, onboarding, team engagement) across the full lifecycledesign, build, deploy, measure.
• Define KPIs tied to business outcomes and develop robust evaluation frameworks that assess learning impact using behavioral, qualitative, and quantitative data.

• Champion lean operating models that emphasize continuous improvement, reusability, and intelligent automation.

What You Bring

• Strategic Intelligence: You see the bigger picture and understand how learning drives transformation, not just training.
• Digital Fluency: You're fluent in the tools, tech, and trends (GenAI, LLMs, VR, nudging, microlearning) shaping the future of work and learning.
• Programmatic Agility: You can scale from executive vision to executional precision with a sharp eye on time, budget, and quality.
• Human-Centered Thinking: You put learners at the center, designing for relevance, accessibility, and behavioral impact.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of Experience in Learning Advisory

• Minimum of 4 years in Program Design in the Learning Space

Preferred:

• Experience with AI in learning, immersive tech, or enterprise learning systems

• Bachelors degree in Instructional Design, Learning Sciences, Organizational Psychology, or a related field (Masters preferred)

• Exposure to learning analytics, behavior change theory, and adaptive learning technologies

• Strong track record leading cross-functional teams and managing large-scale learning portfolios

• Deep understanding of learning ecosystems, digital platforms, and measurement methodologies

• Familiarity with accessibility best practices and inclusive design

• Excellent communicator and relationship-builder across all levels

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $73,800 to $182,600

Colorado $73,800 to $157,800

District of Columbia $78,500 to $168,000

Illinois $68,300 to $157,800

Minnesota $73,800 to $157,800

Maryland $73,800 to $157,800

New York/New Jersey $68,300 to $182,600

Washington $78,500 to $168,000

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