Manager, Learning Experience DesignJob no: 540406
Work type: Staff Full-Time
Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)
Categories: Education/Training/Instructional Design, Executive/Director/Management
Department:18300000 - ED-LASTINGER CENTER
Classification Title:
Instructional Designer III
Classification Minimum Requirements:Master's degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and six years of relevant experience.
Job Description:
Team Management & Development- Supervise, coach, and support the designers on the Learning Experience Design (LXD) team.
- Set clear day-to-day expectations for design practice, communication, documentation, and collaboration.
- Support onboarding, training, and ongoing professional development for team members.
- Carry out performance management, including regular check-ins, feedback, goal-setting, and professional growth.
- Help team members prioritize work, manage workload, navigate project complexity, and make appropriate design decisions.
- Facilitate regular team meetings, design reviews, and project check-ins.
- Identify individual and team skill gaps and provide coaching, resources, or practice to strengthen the team.
Instructional Design Management- Provide day-to-day guidance for the design and development of online learning experiences across the Center's programs.
- Guide designers in translating program goals, learner needs, and SME content into aligned course maps, prototypes, activities, assessments, and learner supports.
- Help designers make sound decisions about content organization, instructional presentation, media use, assessment design, learner engagement and support.
- Review and provide feedback on course maps, prototypes, storyboards, modules, assessments, and other design artifacts.
- Model strong instructional design practice and support consistent application of the Center's established design standards.
- Design or build course components directly when project complexity, timelines, or team capacity require.
Course Development- Keep the team's courses moving through the full development lifecycle and on track to shared production timelines.
- Coordinate the team's design work with project schedules, media production, learning technology setup, and review timelines.
- Collaborate directly with subject matter experts, project managers, product managers, and other stakeholders on the team's projects.
- Help SMEs and stakeholders understand instructional design decisions, tradeoffs, and review processes for their courses.
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks that slow course design and development, escalating issues through appropriate channels when necessary.
Quality & Accessibility- Ensure the team's courses and learning products meet the Center's standards for instructional quality, alignment, coherence, consistency, and usability.
- Ensure accessibility is built into the team's work throughout design and development, in compliance with ADA/WCAG standards.
- Oversee or support instructional quality and accessibility reviews at appropriate points in the development process.
- Use learner feedback, stakeholder input, and quality review findings to improve the team's courses and design practice.
Other Tasks as AssignedExpected Salary:
$95,000- $110,000
Required Qualifications:
Master's degree in an appropriate area and four years of relevant experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and six years of relevant experience.
Preferred:
- Master's degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Sciences, or a closely related field.
- At least five years of professional experience in instructional design, online learning design, eLearning development, educational technology, or a related field.
- Direct experience supervising or managing instructional designers or learning design staff.
- Demonstrated experience applying accessibility standards and universal learning
- Design practices to online learning materials.
- Familiarity with learning management systems such as D2L Brightspace or Canvas.
- Experience using Articulate 360, especially Rise and Storyline, for content design and development.
- Strong writing, editing, organization, facilitation, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, support team members, and make sound decisions in a complex, collaborative environment.
- Experience designing professional learning for educators, coaches, administrators, or other adult learners.
- Experience working in higher education, nonprofit, education-focused research, professional learning, or grant-funded environments.
- Experience in thoughtful and responsible use of generative AI or other emerging technologies to support course design, content development, assessment design, accessibility, and continuous improvement.
Special Instructions to Applicants:
In order to be considered, you must upload your cover letter and resume.
Application must be submitted by 11:55 p.m. (ET) of the posting end date.
Health Assessment Required:No
Advertised: 30 Jun 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close: 14 Jul 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
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