Learning Experience Designer

Sponge; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital learning agency in Bristol is seeking a passionate individual to design unforgettable learning solutions and deliver high-quality projects. The ideal candidate is proactive, quality-driven, and possesses exceptional writing skills. This role allows for flexible working hours and remote options while providing a competitive salary and various benefits including a pension scheme and healthcare cash plan.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Remote and Hybrid working options

Pension scheme

Income protection and life assurance

25 days holiday

Your birthday off

Healthcare cash plan

Qualifications

• Experience in an agency environment with a variety of clients.
• Ability to communicate learning best practices in effective learning solutions.
• Familiarity with industry-leading LMSs.

Responsibilities

• Design unforgettable learning solutions leveraging client needs.
• Deliver client projects on time and within scope.
• Facilitate creative workshops aligned to client requirements.

Skills

Proactive and self-motivated

Quality-driven

Lateral thinker

Relationship builder

Adaptive and creative writer

Tools

Articulate Storyline

Evolve

Rise

Job description

Job Description

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.

Job Requirements

• A proactive and self motivated individual: 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 learner's experience at the highest regard and ensure that every design choice is rooted in learning design best practices.
• 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 Responsibilities

Design unforgettable learning solutions

• Craft bespoke solutions which reflect the Unforgettable Learning brand and human‑centred 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.

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 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