New York Life Insurance Co

Senior Associate, Senior Learning Experience Designer

New York Life Insurance Co$100K — $120K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 7+ years in corporate instructional design or learning experience design
  • Experience designing scalable learning solutions across multiple initiatives
  • Proficiency in rapid design approaches and modern learning technologies
  • Strong understanding of adult learning principles and methodologies (ADDIE, Agile)
  • Experience with organizational development principles and performance consulting
  • Ability to translate complex processes into practical learning experiences

Responsibilities

  • Analyze learning and performance needs through collaboration with business leaders and experts
  • Design and develop scalable learning solutions using a holistic approach
  • Implement and evaluate learning initiatives while ensuring stakeholder engagement
  • Develop reusable learning frameworks and resources for organizational consistency
  • Continuously analyze and improve learning effectiveness based on feedback and metrics
  • Manage multiple complex learning projects while balancing competing priorities
  • Mentor other designers and contribute to overall learning governance

Benefits

  • Full package of employee benefits including leave programs
  • Adoption assistance
  • Student loan repayment programs
  • Ongoing refinement and enhancement of benefits based on employee feedback
  • Support for both professional development and personal well-being
Full Job Description
Location Designation: Fully Remote

Group Benefit Solutions deliverscomprehensive insurance and absence management solutions for mid-sized and large companies. Our work fosters a healthier, happier, and more secure workforce, contributing to New York Life's legacy of beingthere when we're needed most. Here, you'll design, implement, and support these solutions directly impacting employees' lives. At our core, we provide financial security and peace of mind to people through our absence, accident, disability, voluntary benefits, and life insurance solutions. Click here to learn more about Group Benefits solutions.

Role Overview:

The Senior Learning Experience Designer partners with business leaders and cross-functional teams to analyze complex learning and performance needs, design scalable learning and performance solutions, and strengthen organizational capability through human-centered learning experiences. The role applies the organization's Learning Experience Design process, an organization development-informed approach built on the ADDIE framework, to address not only knowledge and skill gaps, but also workflow, behavior, adoption, and broader performance challenges.

Building on advanced instructional design expertise, the Senior Learning Experience Designer designs learning ecosystems that extend beyond formal training by embedding learning into the flow of work, integrating performance support, knowledge management, manager enablement, communications, and reinforcement strategies. The role designs solutions that can be scaled across multiple business priorities, reduces reliance on one-off approaches, and continuously improves learning through data, evaluation, feedback, and responsible use of AI.

The Senior Learning Experience Designer also influences learning practices beyond individual projects by partnering across business, operations, and learning teams to establish consistent design approaches, strengthen learning quality, and expand organizational learning capability through reusable solutions, governance, and guidance for others.

What You'll Do:

Analyze learning and performance needs
• Partner with business leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, and cross-functional teams to interpret complex business challenges and trends and understand organizational priorities, workforce capability needs, and evolving ways of working.
• Conduct complex learning and performance needs analyses using an organizational development lens to diagnose root causes and determine the most effective interventions, which may include learning, workflow improvements, performance support, or other organizational solutions.
• Gather and analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify performance gaps, organizational readiness, workflow impacts, risks, opportunities, and success measures.
• Define measurable business, performance, and learning outcomes that guide solution design, implementation, evaluation, and long-term organizational impact.
• Build trusted partnerships with business leaders and cross-functional teams by providing strategic guidance, facilitating alignment, and influencing stakeholders toward learning and performance decisions that best address the underlying business need.

Design and develop learning solutions
• Apply the organization's Learning Experience Design process, an organization development-informed approach built on the ADDIE framework, to design complex, scalable learning and performance solutions.
• Design holistic learning ecosystems that integrate formal learning, workflow learning, performance support, knowledge management, manager enablement, communications, and reinforcement strategies to improve sustained performance.
• Recommend instructional strategies, technologies, delivery approaches, and solution architectures that balance learner needs, organizational context, scalability, and long-term business outcomes.
• Design learning solutions that can be scaled, reused, and adapted across multiple business areas while maintaining quality, consistency, accessibility, and governance standards.
• Apply advanced adult learning principles, organizational development concepts, accessibility standards, and evidence-based instructional design principles to create engaging, inclusive, and effective learning experiences.
• Develop reusable frameworks, templates, design patterns, and shared resources that improve consistency and efficiency across learning initiatives.
• Leverage artificial intelligence intentionally, ethically, and responsibly to improve design efficiency, creativity, learner experiences, and solution quality while validating outputs through professional judgment and business expertise.
• Evaluate and adopt innovative learning approaches, emerging technologies, and design practices that improve learner engagement, operational effectiveness, scalability, and business outcomes.

Implement learning solutions
• Lead implementation planning for complex learning initiatives, including pilot programs, stakeholder engagement, facilitator preparation, learner communications, launch planning, and adoption strategies.
• Partner with business leaders, operations teams, facilitators, and learning partners to support successful implementation, learner readiness, and organizational adoption.
• Design implementation approaches that support scalable deployment across multiple business areas while minimizing duplication and rework.
• Use pilot results, stakeholder feedback, learner data, and performance metrics to refine solutions prior to broader implementation.
• Ensure learning assets, performance support resources, and knowledge management content remain accessible, current, reusable, and aligned with evolving business priorities.

Evaluate and continuously improve learning solutions
• Evaluate learning effectiveness using learner feedback, business metrics, workflow measures, operational data, performance outcomes, and other available measures.
• Measure the impact of learning solutions on capability development, behavior change, workflow effectiveness, adoption, and business performance.
• Analyze evaluation findings to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend enhancements that strengthen learner experiences and organizational outcomes.
• Maintain enterprise learning solutions, reusable assets, and supporting documentation through regular reviews, governance, version control, and ongoing updates.
• Influence the evolution of learning governance by improving templates, standards, design practices, documentation, and quality expectations across learning initiatives.

Manage projects and stakeholder partnerships
• Lead multiple complex learning initiatives with cross-functional impact while balancing priorities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and competing business needs across business areas.
• Develop and maintain project plans, implementation strategies, communication plans, governance documentation, and stakeholder updates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build trusted partnerships with business leaders and cross-functional teams by providing strategic guidance, facilitating alignment, and influencing learning and performance decisions.
• Mentor and provide guidance to other Learning Experience Designers by sharing expertise, modeling best practices, and supporting consistent application of learning standards.
• Strengthen organizational learning capability by developing reusable resources, establishing consistent design approaches, and contributing to learning governance, innovation, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Bring:

**Please share 2-3 work samples as a part of your application, that demonstrate a range of formats or tools (e.g., eLearning, job aids, performance support, or AI-enabled content).**
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in corporate instructional design or learning experience design
• Demonstrated experience designing scalable learning solutions across multiple initiatives
• Experience using rapid design approaches and modern learning technologies
• Strong understanding of adult learning principles and design methodologies (ADDIE, Agile, etc.)
• Experience applying organizational development principles, performance consulting, or change-oriented methodologies to learning and performance solutions
• Ability to translate complex processes into practical, user-centered learning experiences
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities

Core Competencies
• Scalable Learning Design
• AI & Digital Enablement Mindset
• Performance Consulting
• Strategic Thinking
• Systems Thinking
• Collaboration & Influence
• Adaptability & Innovation
• Organizational Development Mindset

Colorado Statement: It is recommended that all qualified candidates apply to this posting as soon as possible. Residents of Colorado are hereby notified that the deadline to apply is two weeks from the Posting Date listed above.

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Pay Transparency

Salary range: $100,000 - $120,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location.In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees - and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.Click hereto discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

About New York Life Insurance Co

New York Life Insurance Company is a mutual life insurance company in the United States and one of the life insurers in the world, ranking #88 on the 2014 Fortune 500 list with over $540 billion in total assets under management, and more than $19 billion in surplus and AVR. New York Life and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment, and retirement solutions. For 175 years, the company has been helping people put their love into action. It was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in New York.

New York Life Insurance Co Careers

Join the esteemed team at New York Life Insurance Co, a leader in the insurance industry, and propel your career to new heights with unparalleled job opportunities. As one of the most respected names in life insurance, we offer a platform where professionalism meets innovation, creating an environment ripe for personal and professional growth.

Work You’ll Do

At New York Life Insurance Co, you will be part of a culture that cherishes diversity and fosters leadership. Our team is composed of skilled professionals dedicated to providing financial security and peace of mind to our clients. By joining us, you will collaborate with top-tier experts in finance and insurance, leveraging your skills to make a meaningful impact.

Explore Career Paths

Whether you are seeking an internship, a full-time position, or a leadership role, New York Life Insurance Co provides a variety of career paths to help you achieve your professional goals. Our commitment to career development is evident through extensive training programs and continuous learning opportunities that ensure our team remains at the forefront of the industry.

Innovate and Lead

Embrace the opportunity to lead projects that drive innovation within the company and the insurance industry. New York Life Insurance Co is at the intersection of tradition and innovation, where we constantly strive to develop solutions that anticipate the needs of our clients.

Be Part of a Great Team

Our team at New York Life Insurance Co is our greatest asset. We thrive on collaboration and respect each other’s contributions, creating a supportive and inclusive workplace. Here, networking and mentorship go hand in hand with day-to-day operations, providing a robust support system for career advancement.

Future-Proof Your Career

With New York Life Insurance Co, your career is future-proofed with endless opportunities for advancement. Our comprehensive benefits package supports your life both inside and outside of work, while our leadership and diversity training prepare you to take on new challenges.

Join Our Team

Search for open positions that match your skills and interests. We are hiring creative, curious, and motivated individuals who are ready to drive their careers forward. Explore our job opportunities and find out how your talents can make a difference at New York Life Insurance Co.

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Prepare for Your Interview

Ready to join us? Prepare your resume and sharpen your interview skills to become part of a company that values vision, leadership, and a commitment to excellence. At New York Life Insurance Co, we are not just offering a job; we are offering a pathway to success.

New York Life Insurance Co – A Place Where Careers Are Made

From fostering innovation to encouraging diversity, New York Life Insurance Co is where you can pursue your passions and grow your career. Join us and make a difference in the lives of our clients and communities every day.
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