Job Function:
Human Resources
Job Sub Function:
Learning & Instructional Design
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Learning Architect in Titusville, NJ or Horsham, PA.
About Innovative Medicine
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
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Purpose: The Learning Architect serves as the senior design authority within the Learning Solutions teams, responsible for translating complex business and performance needs into rigorous, strategically aligned learning solution blueprints. Reporting to the Head of Learning Solutions, this role leads high-level needs analysis and solution design — establishing the instructional vision, modality strategy, and architectural framework from which detailed design and content development flows.
In addition to this individual design leadership, the Learning Architect manages an agile pool of Learning Designers responsible for detailed design, content creation, and content curation, ensuring the team operates with consistent quality standards, creative excellence, and delivery discipline. This role sits at the intersection of strategic thinking and practical execution, serving as both a thought leader in learning design and an accountable people leader whose team brings that vision to life.
Responsibilities:
- Lead structured needs analysis in close partnership with the Business Partnership team, translating demand intake findings into evidence-based design direction — including performance gap assessment, audience analysis, and environmental scoping — that ensures learning solutions are precisely calibrated to the business customer's need
- Develop detailed solution architecture documents and learning blueprints that define modality, instructional approach, sequencing, measurement strategy, and resource requirements, serving as the authoritative design framework for downstream development
- Lead, deploy, and develop an agile pool of Learning Designers, managing workload allocation, quality standards, and individual performance to ensure the team consistently delivers detailed design and content at a high level of instructional and creative quality
- Establish and steward design quality standards across the Learning Solutions team, conducting structured reviews of detailed design and content outputs to ensure fidelity to the solution architecture, instructional best practices, and client expectations
- Serve as the senior design voice in stakeholder engagements, partnering closely with Portfolio Excellence and Business Partnership colleagues to ensure learning solutions are grounded in business context, aligned to capability priorities, and designed for measurable impact
- Monitor the evolving landscape of learning design practice — including AI-assisted design, emerging modalities, and evidence-based instructional research — and translate insights into updated standards, tools, and approaches that keep the function's design capability future-forward
Additional Duties
- Support the identification, interviewing, and onboarding of Learning Designer talent, contributing to capability assessments and team composition decisions in partnership with the Head of Learning Solutions
- Collaborate with the Vendor Management Lead and subject matter experts on the scoping and quality oversight of externally developed content or co-developed learning solutions
- Periodically facilitate design-focused communities of practice or internal knowledge-sharing sessions that elevate instructional craft across the broader L&D function
Qualifications / Requirements:Education:
- BA/BS Required; Advanced Degree Desirable
Experience & SkillsRequired:
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience is required. Agency, Consulting, and/or Life Sciences experience is preferred.
- Instructional design mastery: Deep expertise in instructional design theory and practice, including adult learning principles, cognitive load theory, performance-based design, and evidence-based approaches to learning solution architecture
- Needs analysis & performance consulting: Proven ability to conduct rigorous intake analysis — including stakeholder interviews, performance gap assessments, and environmental scans — to inform solution design with precision and strategic intent
- Solution architecture: Demonstrated experience developing comprehensive learning solution blueprints that define modality, sequencing, measurement strategy, and development specifications across a range of learning contexts and complexity levels
- Multimodal design fluency: Proficiency across a broad spectrum of learning modalities, including eLearning, instructor-led training, virtual delivery, job aids, microlearning, cohort-based learning, and blended solution design
- People leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a team of learning designers, managing workload, quality, and professional growth within an agile, project-driven operating environment
- Design quality assurance: Experience establishing and applying structured design review processes and quality standards that ensure instructional integrity and consistency across a team's output
- Measurement & learning effectiveness: Familiarity with learning measurement frameworks and the ability to design solutions with evaluation and impact measurement built in from the outset
- Stakeholder engagement: Skilled in building credible, consultative relationships with business stakeholders and cross-functional L&D colleagues, translating complex business needs into clear design direction
- AI & technology fluency: Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools, rapid development platforms, and authoring technologies, with an openness to continuously evolving the team's design toolkit in response to emerging capability
- Content curation judgment: Ability to assess the quality, relevance, and instructional integrity of curated content — including third-party resources, licensed libraries, and user-generated content — and integrate it effectively into broader learning solutions
- Project & team coordination: Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent design workstreams, balance team capacity against demand, and maintain delivery momentum without sacrificing quality
- Communication & influence: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex design rationale clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior business and LEO leadership
Other:
#LI-Hybrid
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Adult Learning Theory, Coaching, Consulting, Cultural Competence, Curriculum Development, Developing Others, Facilitation, HR Strategic Management, Inclusive Leadership, Instructional Design, Instructional Development, Leadership, Learning & Development Trends, Learning and Development (L&D), Learning Culture, Talent Management, Training Delivery Methods, Training Needs Analysis (TNA)
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$150,000.00 - $258,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
