Digital Learning Experience Lead

Quilter plc; Southampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 26 days

Pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

Quilter plc is seeking a Digital Learning Experience Lead in Southampton, UK, with hybrid travel to London. You will reinvent the learning journey, lead Workday Learning powered by Sana, and shape AI-enabled, data-driven learning experiences for diverse colleagues.

This hands-on role partners with HRIS and the wider People team to modernise learning platforms and drive adoption. You will design engaging digital experiences, build high‑quality e‑learning, and connect priority skills to learning

Qualifications

• : Strong experience of learning technology, digital experience, product ownership or a related field, with evidence of using technology to deliver organisational impact.
• : Expertise in user experience and user journey design, translating business and colleague needs into simple, engaging digital experiences.
• : Demonstrable e‑learning authoring expertise, including designing and building effective learning in Articulate, Elucidat and Sana or comparable tools.
• : Experience shaping business requirements and improving the colleague experience of digital platforms, including supporting implementation and technology-enabled change.
• : Ability to use data, feedback and experimentation to evaluate impact, challenge assumptions and improve decisions.

Responsibilities

• : Reinvent the learning experience by centering journeys and creating accessible, engaging experiences.
• : Shape use of Workday Learning powered by Sana and emerging technologies to improve discovery and application of learning.
• : Create high-quality e-learning using Articulate, Elucidat and Sana with practical guidance and templates for SMEs.
• : Lead the implementation of Workday Skills Cloud pilots and connect priorities to learning content and adoption.
• : Explore AI-enabled learning approaches to personalise content and build capability.
• : Act as Learning SME for Workday Learning, defining requirements and driving adoption across the organisation.

Skills

Learning UX design

Learning technology

Product ownership

Stakeholder leadership

Data-driven decisions

Tools

Articulate

Elucidat

Sana

Workday Learning

Job description

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level: 4 Department: HR Location: Southampton, United Kingdom (With travel to London and other Quilter offices when required) Contract Type: Permanent Regulated/Non-Regulated: Non-Regulated Quilter is reshaping how colleagues build the skills they need to perform, grow and deliver for customers. As Digital Learning Experience Lead, you will help create that shift by reinventing the learning experience, making development easier to access, more relevant to people’s work and more effective at building capability. You will be the business lead for learning experience, adoption, digital content and learning technology requirements, working in partnership with HR Information & Systems, which retains technical ownership of the underlying platforms. You will turn business priorities and user needs into simple, engaging learning journeys, using Workday Learning powered by Sana and emerging technologies as enablers. You will lead the learning experience, content and adoption activity required to move away from legacy learning technology. Working alongside HR Information & Systems and the wider People team, you will also help develop Workday Skills Cloud through initial pilots and create the insight, content and experiences needed to accelerate upskilling across high-priority areas aligned to Quilter’s strategic delivery. This is a hands‑on opportunity to create, experiment and make a visible organisational impact. You will combine technology, user experience, learning design, e‑learning authoring and data to re‑engineer how learning is created, discovered and used.

Your key areas of focus will include:

• Reinvent the learning experience Put colleagues and their journeys at the centre, creating simple, inclusive and engaging experiences that make priority skills, role‑based, mandatory, onboarding and culture‑aligned learning easier to access and apply.
• Shape how Workday Learning powered by Sana and emerging technologies are used to make learning easier to find, access and apply, translating colleague insight into experience and content improvements.
• Create high‑quality e‑learning using Articulate, Elucidat and Sana and enable subject matter experts to create effective content through practical guidance, templates and support.
• Build skills for the future Lead the learning experience and business implementation of Workday Skills Cloud pilots, partnering with HR Information & Systems on technology configuration and delivery. Work with pilot areas Talent, People and HR Information & Systems to connect priority skills to relevant learning, test the colleague experience and use evidence to shape recommendations for wider rollout.
• Explore AI‑enabled learning approaches that can improve personalisation, content creation and capability building.
• Shape and embed the digital learning experience Act as the Learning subject matter expert for Workday Learning powered by Sana and related learning technologies, translating business and colleague needs into clear requirements and recommendations. Lead the evolution of the colleague learning experience across Workday Learning powered by Sana, including the content, user journeys, communications and adoption required to move successfully away from legacy learning technology. Partner with HR Information & Systems to define learning requirements and ensure technical changes deliver the intended learning and colleague experience. Simplify mandatory and role‑based learning, strengthening SME ownership while improving relevance, experience and efficiency. Work with HR Information & Systems who will retain accountability for system governance, configuration, release management, technical testing, technical controls and the overall HR technology roadmap.
• Use insight to create impact Build a clear view of participation, engagement, learner experience, skills and business impact through learning data and feedback. Use insight to challenge existing approaches, prioritise investment and identify opportunities for reinvention. Drive business adoption of learning technologies by helping colleagues, managers and content owners understand and use the learning ecosystem effectively.
• Enable cultural and organisational change Create the digital learning experiences that support meaningful shifts in culture, leadership, ways of working and organisational capability. Lead the digital learning experience for priority culture, leadership and capability programmes, from user journey and content design through to adoption, evaluation and improvement. Partner across Culture and Learning, Talent, People, the business and Communications to turn strategic priorities into experiences that change how people work.

About You

You are a digital learning experience specialist with strong expertise in learning platforms, user experience and user journey design. You understand how people interact with technology and can turn business and colleague needs into clear requirements and simple, intuitive and engaging learning experiences. You combine strategic thinking with hands‑on capability, using technology, content and insight to reimagine how learning is created, discovered and used across Quilter. You will use your expertise and credibility to challenge how learning works today, bring people with you and turn ideas into experiences that colleagues value and use. You are curious, practical and comfortable experimenting, learning quickly and making bold improvements where they will have the greatest impact. You will be energised by the opportunity to build something new: developing the technology and experience that help colleagues understand their skills, access relevant development and build the capability Quilter needs for the future.

Skills and experience

• Strong experience of learning technology, digital experience, product ownership or a related field, with evidence of using technology to deliver organisational impact.
• Expertise in user experience and user journey design, translating business and colleague needs into simple, engaging digital experiences.
• Demonstrable e‑learning authoring expertise, including designing and building effective learning in Articulate, Elucidat and Sana or comparable tools.
• Experience shaping business requirements and improving the colleague experience of digital platforms, including supporting implementation and technology‑enabled change.
• Ability to use data, feedback and experimentation to evaluate impact, challenge assumptions and improve decisions.
• Strong stakeholder and supplier leadership, with the ability to connect business priorities and user needs with technical possibilities, and work effectively in partnership with technology specialists.
• Experience of learning management systems, AI‑enabled learning or skills technologies.
• Workday Learning or Workday Skills Cloud experience is desirable rather than essential.
• Understanding of accessible digital design, content quality and the requirements of learning in a regulated environment.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non‑contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only

We welcome your application regardless of your beliefs, culture, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation and or disability.

We hope you like what you hear and are interested in learning more about joining us. We believe our workplace needs to work for you, so we offer an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so our talent acquisition team are on hand to discuss your needs.