Learning Experience Designer

Sponge; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital learning agency in Bristol seeks a Learning Experience Designer to craft engaging learning solutions. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to create customer-focused experiences that make a real impact. Ideal candidates should possess strong design skills, storytelling abilities, and a passion for memorable learning. Flexible working hours and hybrid options are available.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

Remote and hybrid options

Pension scheme

Income protection and life assurance

25 days holiday

Birthday off

Healthcare cash plan

Qualifications

• Experience in an agency environment with a variety of customers.
• Experience in service delivery environments.
• Ability to communicate learning best practices.

Responsibilities

• Craft bespoke learning solutions that meet learner needs.
• Deliver client projects on time and at high quality.
• Collaborate with team members to understand project needs.

Skills

Learning Experience Design

Storytelling

Problem Solving

Customer Excellence

Tools

Articulate Storyline

Evolve

Rise

Job description

Job Description

Who are we? Sponge is a leading digital learning agency (A “Core Leader” on the Fosway grid and Training Industry’s Top 20 company for Digital Learning) focused on delivering “Unforgettable Learning” to our customers. We’ve been leading the industry for decades with our best-in-class digital learning capability. Combined with our emergent growth of consulting services, we are succeeding in being the partner to our customers who are trying to be more strategic and bridge the critical gap between L&D and the business.

A Learning Experience Designer is a changemaker - crafting learning experiences across a range of modalities to drive targeted shifts in behaviour, culture, and capability through Unforgettable Learning. LEDs confidently create learning solutions that delight stakeholders, engage and inspire audiences and deliver real business impact.

We’re on a mission to be the strategic partner who can also execute on our customers' priorities and we’re looking for the best talent to help us get there faster!

Key traits of a Sponge LED: If we were to pick the key standout characteristics of an LED, they would be:

• A natural 'go-getter': Your passion for learning and helping others learn shines through everything you do. If you're ever unsure, you seek the answers, always open to an opportunity to evolve and grow.
• Quality-driven: You hold the experience of the learner at the highest regard ensuring that every design choice is rooted In learning design best practice.
• A lateral thinker: You constantly look to reframe the challenge and solve learning problems in unique ways creating experiences over eLearning.
• A relationship builder: Whether it be with your LED team, your cross-functional colleagues, or clients, you confidently build relationships which serve as a foundation for effective collaboration.
• An adaptive and creative writer: Leaning into our clients' brands, you adapt your style based on the objective using your exceptional writing skills.
  
  

Job Requirements

Skills you’ll need to succeed

• Learning Experience Design: Working collaboratively with our team of learning designers, visual/motion designers (and more) to craft a compelling and impactful learning experience utilising our best-in-class bespoke digital learning capability
• Storytelling: Ability to convey complex and ambitious ideas within a compelling narrative – whether in a sales pitch, content meeting or presenting recommendations to an executive group.
• Problem Solving: Ability to understand and translate organisational needs into innovative solutions which deliver business impact.
• Customer Excellence: Ability to build effective relationships, establish credibility through expertise, and demonstrate presence through confident, professional communication
  
  

Experience

• Experience in an agency environment – working with a variety of customers and industries in a fast-paced, dynamic setting with high levels of change and ambiguity.
• Experience working in a service delivery environment.
• Application of, and ability to clearly communicate, learning best practices within the crafting of effective learning solutions.
• Familiarity with authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Storyline, Evolve, Rise) and industry-leading LMSs
  
  

Job Responsibilities

Design unforgettable learning solutions

• Craft bespoke solutions which reflect the Unforgettable Learning brand and human-centered design principles, solving specific learner needs and our clients' challenges.
• Consistently demonstrate best practices in learning (e.g. neuroscience, cognitive psychology, adult learning theory, behavioural science) which are aligned to Sponge’s strategy and applied with relevance.
  
  

Execute projects

• Deliver client projects on time, within scope, and at high quality.
• Facilitate creative and effective workshops, tailoring your approach to our clients’ specific needs and content to gather the best insights and information to support you in creating solutions which solve for specific learner needs and our clients' challenges.
• Flex your style to meet projects needs and client preferences.
  
  

Be an advocate for Sponge

• Proactively collaborate with Senior LEDs, Visual Designers, Learning Consultants, and others to understand project needs and develop solutions that delight clients and audiences, delivering on our Unforgettable Learning promise.
• Identify ways to improve quality and/or process.
  
  

Job Benefits

• A competitive salary - Our priority is to find the right person
• Flexible working hours
• Remote and Hybrid working options available
• Pension scheme
• Income protection and life assurance
• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• Your birthday off
• Healthcare cash plan
  
  

Be you, with us!

At Sponge, we are all different. And that’s what makes us great! We hire talented people with different and diverse backgrounds, stories, and perspectives not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger.

We are actively working and committed to increasing diversity in our teams and management positions. It’s our ambition to create an inclusive environment where we can all be ourselves together.

What’s next?

If this sounds like you, then you’re on your way to joining a forward-thinking industry leader and a team of like-minded, exceptionally talented people. Simply hit apply and we will be in touch.