Director of Learning Experience

Electives; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Electives, a Boston-based live learning platform, seeks a Director of Learning Experience to own content strategy, instructor selection, and program design for enterprise clients. You forecast demand, recruit and coach instructors, and align programs with client goals.

You’ll manage the instructor community and class calendar, set quality standards, and scale operations with data-driven decision making, clear communication, and a startup pace.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in learning and development or learning design.
• Experience helping HR leaders decide where to spend a learning budget.
• Proven ability to find, vet, and coach instructors.
• Comfort making decisions from data: bookings, NPS, attendance, surveys.
• Startup pace with operational discipline and timely delivery.
• Clear writing and confident speaking, including webinars.
• Bonus: experience running live virtual learning at scale or AI upskilling programs.

Responsibilities

• Forecast content demand twice a year from client requests, class data, and market trends.
• Recruit, vet, onboard, and coach instructors to fill forecasted gaps.
• Design learning programs for specific learner groups and use AI skills.
• Work with clients to understand goals and recommend programs and instructors.
• Own the Membership class calendar and ensure high-quality class pages and instructors.
• Establish processes to maintain class quality as we grow.

Skills

Learning & Development

Data-driven decisions

Stakeholder management

Content strategy

Instructor coaching

Job description

Job Description: Director of Learning Experience, Electives

About Electives Electives is a B2B live learning platform. Employees learn from instructors they will not find anywhere else: professors, executives, astronauts, Olympic athletes, comedians, best-selling authors, all teaching live over video. Companies use us through Electives Membership, a subscription of daily live classes, or through private programs built for one company. We are a small, venture-backed team based in Boston.

The role

You are responsible for the content on the Electives platform: which topics we offer, which instructors teach them, and how they come together into programs for our clients. You forecast where demand for workplace learning is heading, then build the instructor bench to meet it. You advise clients on the programs and instructors that fit their goals. Roughly 40 percent of your time goes to instructors and 20 percent to clients. The rest goes to the forecast, program design, and the operations behind every class. You will inherit an active instructor community and a full class calendar.

What you'll do

• Forecast content demand twice a year from client requests, class data, and market trends. Present the findings to the team, to clients, and in the occasional webinar.
• Recruit, vet, onboard, and coach the instructors who fill the gaps the forecast reveals, fast enough that new topics launch ahead of demand.
• Design learning programs for specific learner groups, such as new managers, high-potential individual contributors, or an entire workforce learning to use AI.
• Work with clients to understand their goals, then recommend the programs and instructors that fit.
• Own the Membership class calendar and hold every class to a high standard: clear class pages, current content, instructors who earn high NPS.
• Put in place the processes that keep class quality high as we grow, so it does not depend on you being in every class.

What you bring

• 8+ years in learning and development or learning design. You have built programs, not just bought them.
• Experience helping HR leaders decide where to spend a learning budget, then showing them what it returned.
• A record of finding, vetting, and coaching great facilitators or instructors.
• Comfort making decisions from data: bookings, NPS, attendance, surveys.
• Startup pace with operational discipline. You hit deadlines, keep data clean, and notice when a number slips before anyone asks.
• Clear writing and confident speaking, including the occasional webinar.
• Bonus: experience running live virtual learning at scale, building AI upskilling programs, or measuring learning impact beyond satisfaction scores.