Learning Experience Director | Learning Consulting | Onsite UAE | Dubai-Based

Jobless; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobless seeks a Learning Experience Director to lead discovery, design, and solution development within a large-scale enterprise learning operation in the UAE. The role focuses on learner-centered design, business-aligned objectives, and high standards across learning solutions.

The position is onsite in the UAE, with travel between Dubai and Abu Dhabi as needed for stakeholder engagement and discovery activities.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in instructional design, learning design, or learning strategy.
• Strong track record designing learning solutions across multiple modalities.
• Deep understanding of instructional design models and adult learning principles.
• Experience conducting discovery and translating business needs into learning solutions.
• Confidence working with and constructively challenging subject matter experts.
• Experience maintaining consistency and quality across learning solutions in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery efforts to understand learning needs, performance gaps, and business context.
• Conduct needs analysis through stakeholder conversations, observation, and data review.
• Translate business and performance needs into clear learning objectives and design requirements.
• Create design briefs and documentation that provide clear direction to design and development teams.
• Design high-quality learning solutions across modalities (ILT, virtual, digital, on-the-job).
• Apply instructional design best practices and adult learning principles consistently.
• Design learner-centered experiences that support engagement, retention, and application.
• Define assessment approaches that validate learning outcomes and skill development.
• Structure learning pathways that support progressive capability building.
• Ensure learning solutions reflect a consistent enterprise learning identity and design approach.
• Maintain consistency in tone, structure, and design across solutions.
• Challenge design or content decisions that dilute quality or consistency.
• Partner with stakeholders to align on design expectations and standards.
• Collaborate with SMEs to extract relevant knowledge and translate into learner-friendly content.
• Balance SME input with sound instructional design judgment.
• Review learning designs to ensure quality and consistency.
• Provide constructive feedback and contribute to design standards, templates, and best practices.
• Support and mentor other learning designers as needed.

Skills

Instructional design

Learning design

Learning strategy

Discovery

Stakeholder engagement

Adult learning principles

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Learning Experience Director | Learning Consulting | Onsite UAE | Dubai-Based

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Learning Experience Director to support learning design and solution development within a large-scale, enterprise learning operations environment. This role focuses on deep discovery, strong instructional design, and maintaining high standards of quality and consistency across learning solutions.

The Learning Experience Director plays a key role in shaping how learning is designed, ensuring solutions are grounded in real business needs, learner-centered, and aligned to an enterprise learning approach. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who enjoys asking the right questions, challenging assumptions, and translating complex subject matter into effective learning experiences. This role combines stakeholder engagement, discovery, and design work.

What You Will Own

Discovery and Learning Requirements

• Lead discovery efforts to understand learning needs, performance gaps, and business context

• Conduct needs analysis through stakeholder conversations, observation, and data review

• Translate business and performance needs into clear learning objectives and design requirements

• Create design briefs and documentation that provide clear direction to design and development teams

Instructional Design Across Modalities

• Design high-quality learning solutions across a range of modalities, including instructor-led, virtual, digital, and on-the-job learning

• Apply instructional design best practices and adult learning principles consistently

• Design learner-centered experiences that support engagement, retention, and application

• Define assessment approaches that validate learning outcomes and skill development

• Structure learning pathways that support progressive capability building

Learning Brand and Design Consistency

• Ensure learning solutions reflect and reinforce a consistent enterprise learning identity

• Maintain consistency in tone, structure, and design approach across solutions

• Challenge design or content decisions that dilute quality or consistency

• Partner with stakeholders to align on design expectations and standards

Working with Subject Matter Experts

• Collaborate closely with subject matter experts to extract relevant knowledge

• Challenge overly technical or content-heavy inputs to keep learning focused and usable

• Facilitate working sessions that translate expertise into clear, learner-friendly content

• Balance SME input with sound instructional design judgment

Design Quality and Standards

• Review learning designs to ensure quality and consistency

• Provide constructive feedback that strengthens design outputs

• Contribute to design standards, templates, and best practices

• Support and mentor other learning designers as needed

Location & Working Model

This role is based in the UAE, with an onsite presence in either Jebel Ali, Dubai or Al Taweelah, Abu Dhabi with travel between both sites as needed for stakeholder engagement and discovery activities.

Additional Information

This role supports a dedicated client program and will be employed locally in the UAE in alignment with regional employment requirements.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Experience

• 10-15 years of experience in instructional design, learning design, or learning strategy

• Strong track record designing learning solutions across multiple modalities

• Deep understanding of instructional design models and adult learning principles

• Experience conducting discovery and translating business needs into learning solutions

• Confidence working with and constructively challenging subject matter experts

• Experience maintaining consistency and quality across learning solutions in an enterprise environment

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

• Master’s degree in Instructional Design, Learning Design, or a related field preferred

If you enjoy deep discovery, strong instructional design, and shaping learning solutions that work in practice, we encourage you to apply.